Developing Bankable Climate Finance Proposals

Lecture 04

Structuring a concept note

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Content

In the order a learner meets it. Each block is a separate thing to write, and their order is the lecture's argument.

  1. Block 1 · text

    Structure is not bureaucracy, it is comparison

    A reviewer reads dozens of concept notes against each other. A note in the expected order - problem, rationale, intervention, ask - is compared fairly against the others; a note that reorders itself for effect is compared unfavourably by default, because the reviewer has to work to locate what they need.

  2. Block 2 · text

    One ask, stated once, early

    A concept note that buries its funding request in a final paragraph, after pages of context, reads as unsure of itself. State the ask in the first page, then use the rest of the note to justify it.

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