Towards harmonization of financial operations and reporting requirements in a multi-donor support environment: Experiences from RUFORUM

With increasing multi donor financing support strategies in most institutions, harmonization of financial operations will be a key to save time and resources. Multi donor supported institutions will need to design strategies, tools, systems and policies that can strategically harness multiple donor agency requirements in cost effective manner. This paper shares experiences of RUFORUM as an example of a multi donor supported institution. It further presents some processes and tools that could support the harmonization of financial reporting.