On Wednesday, January 29, FIFA launched a three-day Financial Governance workshop for its member associations, aimed at strengthening financial management within football. The workshop focuses on enhancing accountability, transparency, and the efficient use of resources in football organizations.The opening session took place at the Accra Marriott Hotel in Accra, marking the start of this important initiative.

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Christoph Suppiger, FIFA's Head of Financial Governance, expressed confidence that by the end of the workshop, the participating member associations would be equipped to address and prevent financial challenges within their organizations.

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"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.

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

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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.

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"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

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