FIFA, on Wednesday, January 29, commenced a Financial Governance workshop for its member associations.
The workshop, which is scheduled to happen in the next three days, aims to improve financial governance in football, covering key topics such as financial management, accountability, transparency, and efficient resource use within football organizations.
The opening ceremony of the workshop happened at the Accra Marriott Hotel in Accra before the first day of the initiative.

The Head of Financial Governance Programme at FIFA, Christoph Suppiger, believes the involved member associations should be able to avoid financial issues faced by their respective institutions at the end of the workshop.
"At the end of the training, the member associations should be entitled to learn a lot about different topics such as how to prevent conflict of interest, measures to put in place in order to select different providers...," he said.
"We have elaborated a financial governance guide which contains a lot of materials for member associations to learn and then to implement in their relative member associations."
The decision to hold the Financial Governance workshop in Ghana is the first of its kind with the General Secretary of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Prosper Harrison Addo, lauding the idea.
"We are happy about the opportunity to host the FIFA Financial Governance workshop in Accra," he mentioned.
"That said, it shows that FIFA is in sync with us and they believe we can host because in choosing the host, they take the opportunity to look at the way you have been managing your FA.
"If we were not managing the FA well FIFA would not have given us this opportunity. W are excited have this workshop here in Accra and to have our colleague coming over."
The event is opened to English speaking member associations on the African continent.
The 10 Member Associations in attendance are:
- Cape Verde
- Liberia
- Ghana
- Nigeria
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Sudan
- Gambia
- Kenya
- Sierra Leone
The General Secretary and Chief Financial Officers of each Members Associations are in attendance.
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