Monday 28 August – Part 1

I began the day by meeting the Uganda Country Office staff. Johnson Ngorok, the Deputy Regional Director for our East Africa Regional Office, was also with us. I held a surgery, talking through where we stand against our organisational objectives and some of the issues we currently face. These included the progress made so far towards Global Working and the imminent staff survey, in which all staff are being encouraged to share their views. This will be the first ever comprehensive survey of all Sightsavers employees.

I was asked a number of questions. They were particularly keen on the new Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) policy, and were looking for more guidelines and training on how it should be implemented One area where there is definitely some confusion is in how forecasting and accounting work together. I was very pleased to see how Finance worked very closely with the programme people – they were clearly a single country team rather than ‘programme staff’ and ‘finance and admin’. I was also pleased that the concept of the staff survey was received positively, and hope we get a good response!