Malawi hosts Fifa financial governance workshop
Football Association of Malawi (FAM) is hosting Fifa financial governance workshop at Sunbird Capital in Lilongwe.
The two-day workshop, which concludes today, has targeted directors of finance from member associations from Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, Swaziland, Zambia and Malawi.
Christoph Suppiger and Mehmet Dirlik from Zurich and David Fan from South Africa Fifa are facilitating the workshop.
“The purpose of the seminar is to discuss some general principles around financial governance, management and to hear of our member associations on these issues, including their experience and feedback from audit and reporting process,” said Suppiger.
The workshop is part of Fifa’s Forward Project (FFP) and is aimed at taking through all member associations on how to access, manage and put to positive productivity of the available funds for various approved football activities.
The FFP caters for specific needs and challenges as identified and presented to Fifa by each association and the world football governing body gives each member association financial support for the specific projects.
FAM general secretary Alfred Gunda said the workshop is crucial as it has given the member associations chance to give feedback on financial issues.
“We are privileged to host this important workshop and we will take advantage of the Fifa envoy’s presence to learn more on how to improve the operation of the association in term of finance governance,” he said.
The FFP support for each association hits $5 million.
