About the Author: Dr Manasseh Tumuhimbise, PhD, MA, MBA, B.Com (Hons)
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Management Sciences, Mbarara University of Science and Technology.
Dr. Manasseh has been at the helm of developing innovations right from ideation working with CAMTech co-creation lab and Maternal Newborn and Child Health Institute at Mbarara University of Science and Technology.
He has over 15 years’ experience as a seasoned academic at various levels and institutions in the area of Business, Finance, and Management. He has published in the disciplines of leadership, Finance, and recently in public health.
Accordingly, he has leveraged advantage for implementing innovation projects. Since September 2021, Dr. Manasseh is a team leader on the project titled “University as Facilitator Community Based Sustainable Solutions to Demographic Challenges in South Western Uganda (UCOBS)” – sub-project 5 aimed at Youth Employability through Skilling, Experiential Learning, and Technology Transfer.
Dr. Manasseh is also the scheme manager Ishaka Health Plan (IHP) Limited. At IHP communities in Bushenyi district access financial solutions for quality and affordable health.
Currently, IHP is carrying out evidence-based public health research, Eradicating HPV among school girls project, credit for health program and microhealth insurance cover.
Grant-funded organizations operate under some of the most complex financial conditions in today’s institutional landscape. Unlike commercial enterprises, they must manage restricted funding, donor-specific compliance requirements, multi-project budgeting, and audit readiness simultaneously.
One of the primary reasons why financing is delayed, audits aren’t finished, and donors don’t trust the organization is still a lack of openness and compliance. Amos Nyombi is a financial systems innovator whose work is changing how money is managed for grants and projects. He is trying to solve this issue.
Nyombi wrote the ProjectGuard Finance Technical Whitepaper, which talks about a Grant and Project Financial Management (GPFM) system that is only for groups who accept grants. He used what he learned from this study to build and launch a web-based financial management platform that you can currently find at www.athapen.com. This made his technology framework a useful and practical way to manage project and grant finances online.
Donor-restricted funding, compliance verification, and audit-grade traceability were not part of traditional commercial accounting systems. Nyombi’s platform fills in these gaps by putting project-level budgets, donor limits, approval processes, and reporting all in one place. The web-based solution cuts down on the need for spreadsheets, email approvals, and other technologies by enabling stakeholders see real-time financial data for a lot of projects.
The change from reactive financial reporting to proactive financial oversight is one of Nyombi’s most notable achievements. Before the money is sent distributed, the platform immediately checks to see whether there are any violations of donor-specific spending rules that arise during the transaction.
This strategy cuts down on the time it takes to put together reports that ordinarily take weeks and makes it far less likely that people will not follow the rules. The technical structure of the system highlights its versatility and economic significance.
The platform provides a variety of online interfaces, a multi-layered architecture, well-structured business logic, permanent information models, and ready-to-use API connections.
This means that colleges, research centers, international NGOs, and government agencies can use the system without having to change how they do things. The influence of Nyombi’s initiatives on the government expands beyond its operational efficiency.
Financial procedures must be highly transparent and easy to verify if people are to be able to depend on them as well as hold them accountable. His program helps you keep track of grant monies in a way that is neat, up-to-date, and can be checked. This makes the leaders of institutions stronger and their money last longer.
Experts argue that systems like the one Nyombi built are a huge step ahead in keeping an eye on finances as grant portfolios get bigger and more complicated around the world. According to his research, organizations that apply and secure funding may utilize an active web-based system for technological innovation to address governance issues and enhance their finances, compliance, and transparency.