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Specialized training to
improve management of fixed assets for senior staff from the
Beirut Municipality Engineering Division
Beirut Municipality engineering division employees
participate in technical training courses to improve
efficiency in the management of municipal inventory and
assets.
Under USAID’s Municipal Governance Assistance Program
SUNY/CLD organized technical training in August of 2007 for
employees from the Engineering Division at Beirut
Municipality responsible for the management of inventory and
fixed assets.
Senior staff members participated in specialized courses
designed to enable the manual records to be fully
computerized for use by stock keepers, accountants, and
municipal officials.
Employees were provided intensive training in the use of the
Municipal Inventory and Asset System (MIAS) and in the
standardized business processes developed by SUNY/CLD to
address the need for consistency and accountability in the
collection and management of inventory and asset data.
Use of the system and the procedures will enable physical
and accounting inventory balances to be reconciled, greater
efficiency and transparency in terms of inventory management
to be achieved, opportunities for misuse of assets to be
minimized, and proper information for planning, budgeting,
and reporting to be provided to officials.
Part of efforts to ensure that human resource capacities are
consistent with the technical strategies and systems being
implemented, the training is essential as well to municipal
employees being able to sustain the initiative beyond the
project.
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