Golden Thread
The concept that every part of a proposal, from the Problem Tree to the Budget, must be logically connected.
What is the 'Golden Thread'?
This part of the Q-Q-T formula ensures that an objective is time-bound.
What is 'Time'?
The dimension of sustainability involving staff capacity and MOUs.
What is Institutional Sustainability?
ABC stands for this bottom-up budgeting approach.
What is Activity-Based Costing?
This provides an overview of the project's total duration in a graphical format.
What is the project schedule?
The visual tool used in Module 2 to distinguish between symptoms and root causes.
What is the Problem Tree?
This level of the results chain represents a behavioral change or a benefit realized.
What is an Outcome?
The type of exit strategy where project activities are transferred to a local partner or government.
What is Phase-Over?
Non-cash contributions like volunteer time or donated space.
What is In-Kind Support?
These medium-term achievements are derived from the successful completion of an output.
What are the project outcomes?
In order to provide the organisational's track record, you must answer this question.
What activities have your organisation successfully implemented in the past?
The column in a LogFrame where you specify how you will prove an activity happened.
What are Means of Verification (MoV)?
Donors don't fear this; they fear when it is 'unmanaged'.
What is Risk?
The Phase 4 stage of the budget lifecycle where accountability is verified.
What is the Audit?
This document forms the basis for project evaluation.
What is a logic framework?
The inclusion of childcare stipends in a budget is an example of this 'Mainstreaming' practice.
What is Gender Responsive Budgeting?
The 'North Star' or visionary long-term change of a project.
What is the Goal?
The dimension of sustainability focused on revenue models like 'Fee-for-Service'.
What is Financial Sustainability?
Actual cash provided by your organization or a partner to show 'skin in the game'.
What is Cost Share?
The number of quotes recommended for transparent procurement.
What is Three?
These statements provide a concise description of your entire project by highlighting your beneficiaries, the problem you are addressing and the solutions you are providing.
What is the executive summary?
These events will be carried out during the project's duration.
What are project activities?
The strategy where an organization slowly reduces its involvement as local capacity grows.
What is Phase-Down?
The term for a budget that specifically addresses the time poverty of women.
What is Gender Responsive Budgeting?
These supporting documents are needed to bolster your rationale.
What are published articles?