Fighting Fraud in NGOs

Fighting Fraud equips you with a comprehensive anti-fraud framework and skills to prevent, detect, and respond to fraud in your NGO. Over the course of six weeks, you will explore this framework to build meaningful anti-fraud measures. Additionally, you’ll gain an in-depth understanding of risk factors across areas such as financial statements, asset misappropriation, and corruption. The core focus of this course is exploring practical solutions and controls to proactively manage fraud risks. You’ll leave with a holistic anti-fraud toolkit to identify vulnerabilities, design preventive measures, and respond to fraud when detected.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Describe the five elements of a holistic Anti-Fraud framework
• Identify the required content of key anti-fraud policies and processes
• Assess fraud risk in your programs, and develop controls to respond to the risks
• Develop and guide a Fraud Response Team at your organization
• Effectively manage incidences of fraud, or allegations of fraud by taking actions which are appropriate, fair, and firm

• NGO staff whose job is to proactively manage the risk of fraud, such as program operations and finance managers
• Independent auditors or CPAs who perform compliance or financial audits within the global development and humanitarian sector

This course is most relevant to NGOs with more than 12-15 staff, or an annual budget greater than USD 350,000.