Removing Barriers, Increasing Effectiveness - amarc

fundraising across regions on matters of common concern) through, forexample, creating a common depository for all fundraising proposals andconfirmed grant agreements in AMARC’s name;• Develop standardized accounting and financial reporting policies,procedures and practices to apply to its International Secretariat and itsregions and sections;• Ensure these accounting and financial reporting policies, procedures andpractices address issues such as joint fundraising, fundraising authorityand processes, spending only against contracted budgets, spending onlywithin contracted budget lines and spending only with appropriateauthorization, involvement and oversight by the relevant Board ofDirectors;• Ensure that legal requirements for annual external audits at internationaland regional levels conform with standard legal requirements andprocedures;• Implement regular internal audits across AMARC International andregional sections for increased coherence and transparency;• Explore avenues to decentralize executive powers and responsibilitiesfrom the International to the Regional Secretariats as well as among themembership (for example, through decentralizing publications andtranslation work);• Document the governance and financial management challengesexperienced by AMARC International Secretariat and its regional sectionsand strategies adopted to surmount these challenges to ensure thathistory does not repeat itself.Monitoring and EvaluationAMARC should:• Document and systematically report on the outcomes and impact of alladvocacy and solidarity efforts, through the AMARC website andpublications;• Disseminate the findings and outcomes of the evaluation process;• Test the participatory monitoring and evaluation tools developed duringthe evaluation process within all of its regions;• Develop systematic programme and project monitoring and evaluationtools and strategies common to all regions and International Secretariat;• Build resources and capacity for monitoring and evaluation into allprogramme and project proposals at all levels.AMARC Community Radio Social Impact Assessment 2007 Page 102 of 128