Developing Bankable Climate Finance Proposals

Lecture 01

What makes a project bankable

PublishedVideo lectureWritten by Nuwan de Silva

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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 · video

    Read it as the funder does

    10 minNo file attached in the prototype

    The same project, read twice - once as its author wrote it, once as an appraisal officer reads it. The second reading looks for one thing the first rarely states plainly: what repays the money, and what happens to that if the project underperforms.

  2. Block 2 · text

    Bankable is not the same as worthwhile

    A project can be entirely worth doing and still not be bankable, if nothing about it produces a measurable return or saving a funder can point to. Recognising that distinction early saves months spent writing a proposal for the wrong kind of finance.

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  • Bankability checklist

    Spreadsheet · 108 KB · Finance & proposal templates · used by 1 lecture

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