Overview
Africa Grant Advisors works closely with each client to understand their lines of work, projects, capabilities, and needs. There are thousands of donors and investors active across the continent; our first step is to probe our network of funders to identify the opportunities that suit our clients best. We then provide comprehensive application process support to clients, including developing concept notes and projects proposals, budgets and financial models, business plans, social and environmental impact projections, and any other required application materials.
We advise our clients during the negotiation and contracting period to ensure that they receive funding on terms that will allow them to achieve their goals. Finally, we help our clients manage project compliance and reporting during implementation, ensuring a strong partnership with the donor and a successful project.
Grant Consulting Services
Africa Grant Advisors supports our clients from start to finish. This includes:
Funding identification
Africa Grant Advisors maintains an extensive contact network in the donor and investor community. We stay up-to-date on available and upcoming calls for proposals, ensuring that our clients hear about and can apply to any opportunities for which they are eligible. We use our thorough knowledge of the grant landscape to tailor our work to each client. We only apply for opportunities we are confident will succeed.
Proposal development
We help clients think through their project plans to make them both as commercially attractive and impactful as possible. Then, we develop proposals, business plans, budgets, projections, and any other materials required for their application. We maintain a network of expert consultants who can advise on projects in almost any industry and region.
Implementation support
Africa Grant Advisors is an expert in managing financial, environmental, and social impact reporting. We can assist our clients in setting up reporting processes, data collection and management systems, and compliance procedures. We can also oversee, or manage entirely, clients’ grant management activities.
Other Services
Africa Grant Advisors can provide our clients with a variety of additional services. Our expertise in consulting, fundraising, and grant management enables us to support clients in a number of related fields, including document preparation and presentation, strategic planning, social enterprise planning, tender bidding support, and others.
Document preparation and review
AGA’s expertise in grant proposal writing gives us the ability to prepare world-class documents of all types. We can develop business plans, pitch decks, financial models, and more. We can also review documents, presentations, copy, and more to ensure high-quality execution, from strategy and argumentation to formatting.
Social enterprise advisory
We have helped a number of NGOs and mission-driven organizations to launch commercial operations and transition to sustainable operating models. A number of the world’s most successful social enterprises were launched or are operated by non-profit organizations. Finding support in designing, capitalizing, and executing impactful commercial projects can be a challenge. AGA can assist our clients in planning both the commercial and the development aspects of their new ventures, in addition to identifying and attracting the resources necessary to launch.
Strategic planning
Strategic planning is a part of every AGA engagement. We work with clients to plan their projects’ financing and execution by creating time- and deliverables-bound activity plans, ensuring projects are sufficiently resourced, planning for best- and worst-case scenarios, making contingency plans, and more. We tailor our strategic planning services to the particular needs of our client and their operations.
Resource identification and mobilization
AGA has worked with former bilateral- and basket-funded programs to identify and mobilize resources for their continued operation. Transitioning to financially sustainable operations, or to new funding sources, can be a huge challenge. AGA can develop strategic resource mobilization plans, assist with business model development (see above), and advise our clients on best practices for making this difficult transition.
Tender bidding support
AGA’s project documentation and process management skills enable us to support companies bidding on tenders in a number of fields. We have supported competitive bids for contracts ranging from construction to technical consulting services. We bring clarity and organization to what can often be a complicated and burdensome process.
