Many NGOs make financial management a low priority, leading to poor financial planning and monitoring systems. This manual aims to explain why financial management is important for NGOs in a rapidly changing and competitive world and how organizations can survive and succeed in this environment by making full use of financial management tools.

This guide aims to increase the understanding of civic and political activists regarding:

• What transparency measures to demand in establishing safeguards concerning electronic electoral technologies; and

• What skills their organizations will need to develop to verify the integrity of electronic electoral technologies.