Developing Bankable Climate Finance Proposals

Lecture 07

Writing the proposal that survives review

PublishedVideo lectureWritten by Nuwan de Silva

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 · video

    The first two pages decide it

    12 minNo file attached in the prototype

    Reviewers form a view early and read the rest of a proposal to confirm or overturn it. This lecture rewrites the opening of a real proposal - problem, rationale, intervention, and what changes if it is funded - and shows what each revision was fixing.

  2. Block 2 · text

    Sustainability is a specific question

    'What happens after the funded period ends' is asked of almost every proposal, and a vague answer is one of the most common reasons a concept note is not advanced. Naming a specific institution, budget line or revenue stream that continues the work after funding closes is what the question is actually asking for.

Attached materials

What the learner downloads. Everything here comes off the shared library, so one file can serve six lectures and be replaced once.

  • Full proposal - annotated example

    PDF · 1.8 MB · uploaded straight onto this lecture

    Not on a shelfRemove
  • Reviewer's scoring rubric

    Spreadsheet · 112 KB · Finance & proposal templates · used by 1 lecture

    In the libraryRemove

Lecture quiz

4 questions close this lecture. The pass mark is 70% and is set once for the whole platform. It also carries 2 written questions - a learner has to clear both to move on.

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