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While demand for family planning and reproductive health services is increasing worldwide, a number of recent trends threaten the financial sustainability of donor-supported NGOs that provide these services. First, the U.S. Agency for International Development has seen its funding for population assistance decline since 1995. A second reason is the growth of government-funded programs that provide these services for low-income clients, which reduced the need for NGOs to focus programs entirely on the poor. Health-sector reform has created opportunities for NGOs via public–private partnerships in some countries, but sustained public-sector support is unlikely given limited economic growth in domestic economies and competition from other health priorities. Faced with these challenges, many NGOs ceased operations, while others struggled to produce health services for which clients or donors are willing to pay. Long-term sustainability of NGOs may require that they become largely financially self-reliant, but few NGOs have the skills to reduce costs and increase income. This brief describes the FRONTIERS program's Financial Sustainability Capacity Building Initiative (FSCBI). FSCBI's objective is to build NGO capacity to conduct economics-related operations research to improve financial sustainability.

AbstractThis article divides financial issues into capacity and sustainability in two time frames: long and short. Long term emphasizes maintaining services; short term emphasizes resiliency. An organization's long‐term financial capacity is sustainable if its rate of change is sufficient to maintain assets at their replacement cost. A key contribution of this study is a sustainability principle that gives managers short‐term budget surplus targets needed to achieve this objective. The formulas are applied to national data to give a picture of the sector and establish benchmarks for "normal" practice. "Ordinary nonprofits" are active public charities without endowments that are not primarily membership associations or grant makers.

Socio-economic and political transformation that took place in Ukrainian society over the past two decades, contributed to democratic change views on the nature and importance of the institute of local self-government in the state building process, based on local budgets - budgets of territorial communities of villages, their associations, towns, cities. Financial support of local communities is an important element of fiscal policy, regulation which determines the degree of efficiency of the implementation by local authorities of their functions and powers.

In 2020, cOAlition S commissioned a study to gain insights into the OA publishing landscape of diamond journals and platforms, i.e. OA which is free to both readers and authors. The research, conducted by a group of 10 organizations led by OPERAS, aggregated data from an online survey that gathered over 1600 responses from journal editors across the globe, a quantitative analysis of data from bibliographical databases and a qualitative analysis based on focus groups of journal editors and interviews with infrastructure providers. The findings of the study show a fragmented landscape of relatively small journals that serve a wide range of disciplines and languages. Journals have a mix of scientific strengths and operational challenges (including compliance with funder mandates). Their economy is characterized by a large dependency on volunteers, universities and governments, modest publishing costs and a variety of funding models. In this presentation, we will discuss how to create a more connected, collaborative and resilient scholar-led OA diamond publishing system: one that supports OA participation for all researchers, regardless of their economic standing, culture, scientific domain or language. We will call on the recommendations of the study by focussing on how to gain efficiencies amongst many publishers to streamline processes and build shared services, becoming technically future-fit together. We will discuss building a new capacity centre for OA Diamond journal editors and platforms to grow, strengthen, innovate and save costs for that sector. We will end by proposing how a range of institutions and funders can help keep OA diamond free and sustainable for years to come also linking to the recent German study on the topic. We will focus on how to sustain the operations of OA diamond and investing in their future in the short, medium and long terms giving examples of how.

The purpose of the article is to determine the economic content of the category of financial capacity, the study of the influence of the main factors affecting the operation of the industrial enterprises financial potential, as well as the rationale for the selection of best management practices. For every Ukrainian industrial enterprise is an urgent problem of the formation of optimal financial resources to ensure the stable operation of the enterprise, financial stability and solvency. The question remains effective financial capacity management system, taking into account the current realities of the Ukrainian economy. The study highlighted the direction of the management process financial potential of the industrial enterprises. The components and elements of the financial potential of the control system and its functional units. Methodology. Data for the study were taken from scientific publications and legislation. The methods of general scientific knowledge, as well as integrated assessment models, is to develop and study the dynamics of the integral index, built on a clearly identified mechanism of mathematical relationships. Results. On the basis of a generalized approach to the definition of "financial potential" category author suggested his own definition of this category, offered economic components of financial capacity. Practical implication. The result of this study is on the direction of cash flow optimization in the enterprise at the expense of control financial flows. Formation of current funding matrix with the release of surplus area, and a balanced current funding deficit. Value/originality. On the basis of the study proved that the implementation of this approach facilitates the development of highquality management decisions on the development of a financial management plan for the financial flows in an industrial plant, consequently, will increase its competitiveness. ; Целью статьи является определение экономического содержания категории финансовый потенциал, исследование влияния основных факторов влияющих на управление финансовым потенциалом промышленного предприятия, а также обоснование выбора наиболее оптимальных методов управления. Для каждого украинского промышленного предприятия является актуальной проблема формирования оптимального объема финансовых ресурсов для обеспечения стабильной работы предприятия, финансовой устойчивости и платежеспособности. Остается открытым вопрос результативной системы управления финансовым потенциалом с учетом нынешних реалий украинской экономики. В результате исследования выделены направления процесса управления финансовым потенциалом промышленного предприятий. Определены составляющие и элементы системы управления финансовым потенциалом, его функциональные звенья. Методология. Данные для исследования были взяты из научных публикаций и законодательной базы. Использованы методы общенаучного познания, а также интегральные модели оценки, заключающиеся в создании и исследовании динамики интегрального показателя, построенного на четко оговоренном механизме математических зависимостей. Результаты. На основе обобщения подходов к определению категории «финансовый потенциал» автором предложено собственное определение этой категории, предложены экономические составляющие финансового потенциала. Практическое значение. Результатом исследования является направления по оптимизации движения денежных потоков на предприятии за счет контроля финансовых потоков. Формирование матрицы текущего финансирования с выделением зоны излишков, сбалансированного текущего финансирования и дефицита. Значение/оригинальность. На основе проведенного исследования обосновано, что реализация данного подхода способствует разработке качественных управленческих решений по разработке финансового плана по управлению финансовыми потоками на промышленном предприятии, что, в последствии, повысит его конкурентоспособность.

The regional autonomy policy gives greater authority to regencies and cities to take responsibilities both in terms of regional revenue or regional expenditure. Ideally, all the local government expenditures can be fulfilled with their Local Own-source Revenue, so that the region fully becomes an autonomous region which means that the dependence of central government to local decreases. According to the percentage of direct expenditure to total regional revenue of provinces in Sumatra, the average amount is less than 50 percent of regional income. Meanwhile, more than 50 percent of the total regional revenue of provinces in Sumatra is used for indirect expenditure. The average degree of fiscal decentralization of provinces in Sumatra from 2015 to 2017 has amount about 37 percent. It means that the fiscal decentralization degree was low, thus the budgeting performance was poor/bad. Financial independence level of provinces in Sumatra is 57.36 percent which means that the regions are considered to be independent enough in implementing regional autonomy. Financial dependence level of region is about 63.55 percent which means that the fiscal dependence of provinces in Sumatra is great enough and its budget performance is not so good. This shows that the region dependence in Sumatra on the aids from central funds is still very much felt and noticeable.

The level and dynamics of social and economic development of territorial entities should be improved based on the mobilization of their fiscal revenue sources, their financial capacities, further improvement of intergovernmental transfers distribution mechanism. From this perspective, the study discusses one of the most significant financial units related to the regulation of the territorial economic development. In the context of the analysis of the transforming role of intergovernmental transfers, a paradigm shift in financial support for the integrated social and economic development of regions and municipalities seems to be logical. A gradual shift from the dominant role of subsidized support for municipalities to reliance upon their financial resources is required. First, one should assess the financial resources for territorial development which are reasonably required and analyzed on the basis of the minimum subsistence level in order to identify potential sources of these funds and establish a budget and extrabudgetary funds of territorial entities. For this purpose, it is necessary to define the financial capacity of the latter. The methodical algorithm for its analysis is proposed as well.

This research explores the financial status of local government, analyzing 234 local governments using 10 budget-related financial analysis indices published by the Korean Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs. This paper makes a correlation analysis of the index of local governments and measures the financial capacity of local government, looking for the developmental plan of financial capacity through a regression analysis for finding out factors affecting the resulting value. The results shows there was statistical significance in the entire score, such as the number of public officials, the number of civic groups, population, and local tax per capita. Local tax per capital was found to be most influential, followed by population.