SPW implements community level programmes that promote health and help tackle the underlying causes of poverty. With international and in country government support and a focus on young people, SPW works in rural communities in eight countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

SPW is, however, more than just a set of programmes, it is a global organisation that has core capacity needs like any other business. As a medium-sized and rapidly growing organisation that is staffed predominantly by young professionals, SPW has to be creative in its approach to capacity building in key performance areas such as finance management, monitoring and evaluation, marketing and external communications. One of key elements of its capacity building strategy is to form partnerships with private sector companies who possess expertise in key areas and understand that a short-term technical assistance placement for key employees can result in dramatic positive benefits for the employee and the company, and can make a strategic contribution to SPW’s work in developing countries.

As part of this capacity building effort, SPW has started to institute an annual schedule of internal audits for each of its country offices. The aim is to have these internal audits conducted by experienced finance professionals from partner organisations, working with our country office finance units to pro-actively identify any weaknesses in systems and controls, addressing any identified weaknesses with systems improvements and training. SPW prides itself on the reputation that it has established as a transparent and reliable NGO, and it believes that it is through pro-active efforts such as annual internal audits that it will maintain its position.

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