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

This course is primarily aimed at UNICEF implementing partners, to provide them with 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 the program budget, analyze and manage budgets (with and without budget management software).
  • Links budget planning to funding requests to UNICEF.


Training objectives

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

  • Prepare budget forecasts, analyze and control budgets (with and without budget management software).
  • Links budget planning to funding requests to UNICEF.

Target audience

This course is primarily intended for implementing partners and UNICEF staff members, but may also serve other UN agencies and their implementing partners.

Duration

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

Method

This course is composed of an introduction, six chapters with a knowledge test for each of them, and a final assessment testing the newly acquired knowledge. This course is available with or without audio, a transcript is also provided. 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. Detailed Cost Estimate (ECI) and Funding Applications
  5. Variance analysis and budget reallocation
  6. Case Study – Budget Lifecycle

    Contact us

    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