Trainings on “Planning, Budgeting, Controls, Cash Flow and Government Financial Rules for Government Health Staff” are organized by UNOPS in collaboration with the National Disease Control Programmes (AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria) and under the leadership of the Ministry of Health and Sports.

The aim is to enhance the financial management capacities of officers in the National Health System. The trainings are held in a series of six batches of two days (two parallel sessions per batch) for 12 days from 15 to 29 November in Nay Pyi Taw with close to 1000 government health staff from the 330 townships across the country taking part.

Similar trainings were held twice in 2013 and 2015. This year financial clerks dealing with fund management are also involved together with State/Regional, District and Township Health Officers. The opening speeches were delivered by Dr Yin Thandar Lwin, Deputy Director General, Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health and Sports, and Dr Faisal Mansoor, Head of Programme Unit, UNOPS-PR.

Participating government health staff actively involved in group works to have hands-on practice to build their financial management skills and, training attendance was 100 percent.