Institutional contract for conducting Financial and reporting capacity building for UNICEF's Implementing Partners in the West Bank and Gaza.

Supporting 8 UNICEF implementing partners (IPs) in the West Bank and Gaza to improve their operational, financial and reporting systems.

While the specific capacity building to be undertaken with each IP should be tailored to their needs based upon their previous Micro-Assessment, Spot Check and/ or Audit reports, in general some of the areas for financial capacity building are:

• Financial principles and systems of accountability;
• Internal controls, financial management structure, reporting lines and accounting procedures including segregation of duties;
• Financial monitoring (of internal departments and external sub-recipients) and reporting requirements;
• Procurement and asset management systems;
• Internal and external audit;
• FACE Form completeness/ accuracy;
• Budgeting and cost categories;
• Invoice management;
• Disbursement request protocols;
• Payroll, cost categories, and salary alignment between programme documents and financial reporting on salary utilization;
• Cash and check management;
• Financial management including ICT systems and financial reporting;
• Policies and procedures on: i) Treasury; ii) Anti-Corruption/ Anti-Fraud/ Whistle Blowers; iii) Procurement; iv) Risk Management; v) Travel; vi) Internal committees.