Budgets help organisations to plan their activities, ensuring that they have enough resources to achieve the intended results. This course aims to provide learners with a good understanding of what budget management is, its principles and its importance and how to make the connection between budget planning and funding requests to be submitted to UNICEF.

This course is mainly targeting the UNICEF implementing partners, to provide them a good understanding of what budget management is, its principles and its importance. At the end of the course, learners should be able to:

  • Prepare programme budget, analyze, and manage budgets (with and without a computerized budgetary accounting software).
  • Make the connection between budget planning and funding requests to be submitted to UNICEF.

Learning objectives

This course will focus on budget management principles and its importance. At the end of the course, learners should be able to:

  • Prepare budget forecasts, analyze budgets and control budgets (with and without a budget management software).

  • Make the connection between budget planning and funding requests to be submitted to UNICEF.

Audience

This course is mainly meant for UNICEF implementing partners and staff members but may also serve other UN agencies and their implementing partners.

Length

It should take you about 60 minutes to complete this course.

Methodology

This course is composed of an introduction, six chapters with a test of knowledge for each of them and a final assessment testing the newly acquired knowledge. This course is available with or without audio, a transcript is provided for all.  It also includes interactive icons and short videos providing more information.

Structure

This course is composed of six chapters:

  1. What is a budget and why is it important to prepare it?
  2. Approaches to budgeting
  3. Budget Management and monitoring
  4. Itemized Cost Estimate (ICE), Funding requests and Cash Flow forecast
  5. Variance analysis and Budget reallocation
  6. Case Study Budget lifecycle

    Contact details

    For content issues and questions, please contact:

    • Koffi Badjo Babaka, kbabaka@unicef.org, Regional Implementing Partnerhsip management Specialist- WCAR
    • Slavi Nikolov, snikolov@unicef.org, Programme Manager DAPM
    • Jean Mege, jmege@unicef.org, Regional Implementing Partnerhsip management Specialist- WCAR