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by Keith Tondeur. Managing money is never easy. Families on low or uncertain incomes often struggle to cope with payments such as school fees or healthcare. We often live in societies where articles and advertisements on the radio and TV, or in newspapers and magazines, encourage us to spend money. We are always being told how ‘good’ certain products will make us feel. Increasingly, our societies see success as the possession of wealth, rather than having a good character or serving others. ...
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by John Cammack. Many of us have experienced the situation where we have a bill to pay, but we do not have enough money to pay it until we receive money owed to us. As individuals, we can generally keep these details in our head, but this is not possible within a group or organisation.
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Money is essential to every organisation. All organisations or businesses have to look after their money carefully. That means using good financial management.
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How to support changemakers in your community
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Flipcharts are series of posters used to teach small groups about a particular subject. Each main idea is shown on a poster. Their use makes teaching much easier, as each poster reminds the trainer of all the important points.
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by Dennis and Meredith Murnyak. The Fish Farming Project is a training and extension programme in northern Tanzania begun in l984 as part of the holistic ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania (ELCT). It promotes and teaches basic techniques on raising tilapia fish in ponds dug in earth. The project focuses on working with subsistence farmers to raise fish as food for their families and for sale to increase their income. However, their ideas for training could be used in many ...
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by Andrew Maclay. I have worked as an accountant and auditor in many commercial and charitable organisations, ranging from multinational companies in London to tiny churches in Africa. I have seen many different systems for keeping accounts, both in the English-speaking and the French-speaking worlds. One thing I have noticed is that the accounting systems used are often more complicated than necessary.
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by Veronika Scherbaum. Certain subjects, such as diarrhoea, AIDS and family planning, can cause embarrassment both for trainers and learners. Trainers need to develop a good group atmosphere so that these subjects can be talked about openly and without prejudice. Audience participation is a major goal.
Resource Type: Case studies
The AAILD approach. THE AAILD (Association for the Support of Local Development Initiatives) is a non-profit making organisation in Burkina Faso, West Africa, with over 200 members. AAILD works to encourage and support local initiatives in development.
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We can all remember times when we were taught skills. Sometimes a difficult skill was made easy with clear training, and has remained with us ever since. At other times training was confused; an easy skill was made difficult and we still cannot do that skill.
