• Overview
• Programme design
• Size and status of budget
• Developing the budget
• Managing the budget
• Monitoring
  • How often?
  • Actual expenditure
  • Progress against expenditure

• Case studies
• Resources

Monitoring

The best way to monitor the programme and budget is in consultation with all key programme staff, so that they know how the programme is performing against budget. They can link this back to their programme activities. Case study

Key steps are:

• Check actual income and expenditure against the budget. More
• Check progress towards achieving your goal. More
• Ask yourselves whether it will be possible to achieve your goal on time within the budget.

If the answer is “no” to the last question, and nothing can be done to improve the programme implementation:

• Tell your line manager/head office and donors.
• Revise the budget and/or log frame.
• Seek donor approval for more funding and/or a programme extension.