Series
Donor Watch
For organisations that bid for and report on donor funding: deciding what to bid for, tracing requirements, and proving results.
03guides, in reading order
The series, guide by guide
- Related practices
- Bids, proposals & intelligenceResearch, evidence & evaluationManagement & institutional strengthening
Issues in this series.
- GuideBuild a bid/no-bid decision from evidence rather than optimismMany losing bids were never winnable. A bid/no-bid decision built on evidence, with hard eligibility checked first, saves weeks of wasted effort.
GuideHow to build an RFP compliance matrix with clause traceabilityTenders are lost on compliance before they are judged on quality. A compliance matrix that keeps every requirement traceable to its clause stops that happening.
GuideWhat makes a programme evidence-ready?An evidence-ready programme can show what it did, what changed and how it knows, at the moment a funder or evaluator asks. Many are not, and the gaps are predictable.
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