Funding Formula Stage 2
Checklist 3: Doing Good Work
Credibility means the integrity and trustworthiness of your organisation.
Q. What do donors want to see?
- the organisation is well-governed, well-managed and accountable
- the organisation is using funds effectively
- the organisation is doing good work
Q. How can you demonstrate your credibility to donors?
Use this Checklist, below, to help your organisation demonstrate that it is doing good work.
| Demonstrate That Your Organisation Is Doing Good Work You can provide that your organisation is delivering high quality work through these documents and approaches: |
| What | Details | ✓ or 🗵 |
Expertise | Can you highlight your organisation’s long-standing expertise and experience in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights? This could include: – CVs or biographies of key, high-level members of staff – articles that staff have written; papers they have contributed to – national policies that your organisation has influenced – contributions your organisation has made, whether through service delivery or advocacy awards that your organisation has won: is your organisation a leader in sexual and reproductive health and rights in your country? – details of staff – especially technical staff – who are involved in, or invited to participate in, working and advisory groups and committees of other organizations. | |
Evidence | Can your Member Association show its results? Donors need to see the impact that your programme is making. This can include: – project reports (which emphasize your successful activities and the results you have achieved) – case studies (donors value human interest stories) – your organisation’s annual report – academic or other research Demonstrate the difference that you make to the communities you serve and the impact that you have. Are you sharing your evidence-based results (with donors, partners, your national government, other Civil Society Organizations, other Member Associations, academic institutions, the media, parliamentarians and other stakeholders)? | |
Endorsements from Other Donors and Stakeholders | Do you have the support of other organizations? This can include donors, partners, your national government, clients, other Civil Society Organizations, academic institutions, the media, parliamentarians and other stakeholders: – do you promote your relationships with (and funding from) other donors and partners? This will increase donors’ confidence in you. This information may be included in your Annual Report and other communications materials including your website – do you have any Memoranda of Understanding with donors or your national government, or other Civil Society Organizations? | |
Lessons Learned | Can you show that your organisation is a learning organization, skilled at creating, acquiring and transferring knowledge? – Can your organisation modify its behaviour and activities to reflect this new knowledge? – Do you share your evidence-based results, human interest stories and lessons learned with other organizations? | |
Staffing | Is your organisation a good employer who recruits – and retains – high quality employees, who are the best in the business at what they do? Assure donors that you have the capacity to manage new funding, to grow, and to implement new projects. | |
Strategy | Results that your organisation has achieved are important, but so are your future plans: do you intend to build on your successes and scale them up to achieve exponential growth? Has your organisation developed (and is it implementing) a strategic framework? This will contain: – a needs assessment / statement – goal and mission statement – core objectives and activities – timeline – expected outcome key performance indicators and measures of success. It should also include an assessment of the resources (financial, human and technical) that you will need in order to achieve this. |