Grants Management and Technical Assistance
What We Do.
Grants Management and Technical Assistance
We act as the bridge between donors and their implementing partners, strengthening implementing partners’ capacity in financial management and compliance and in outcome and impact orientation for results-oriented programming and reporting. We also advise donor-clients on viable areas of funding based on analysis of contextual realities and their funding priorities. We review grant applications to enhance outcome and impact orientation. Since 2016, DLC’s services have been retained by the Germany-based donor, Bread for the World Protestant Development Service, to provide ongoing technical assistance to 19 implementing partners in Uganda in the areas of Outcome and Impact orientation and financial management compliance. DLC has also previously supported America- based Wellspring Philanthropy Fund to identify and assess the capacity of 60 organisations in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania to inform the Fund’s grant making decisions.
Summary of our Executed Assignments
| No. | Date (M/Y) | Name of Client | Description of the Assignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 2009-2014 | Lake Victoria Region Local Authorities Cooperation | Conducted an organizational capacity assessment of Lake Victoria Region Local Authorities Cooperation (LVRLAC) and facilitated the development of a six-year strategic Plan (2009-2014). |
| 2. | 2022 | Conducted capacity assessment of KIOS implementing partners in Uganda and following on from the assessment, implemented capacity development for seven KIOS implementing partners in Uganda who are working in the field of social cultural and economic rights. This capacity building support areas covered were leadership and governance, resource mobilisation, Outcome and impact orientation and advocacy- 2022. | |
| 3 | 2021-2022 | Child Rights and Violence Prevention Fund | Conducted Capacity Assessment for 18 Uganda based Grantees of the Child Rights and Violence Prevention Fund in a view to support identified capacity needs as part of partner capacity building and organisational strengthening process and thereafter responded with the implementation of capacity development plans in the areas of expressed need-2021-2022. |
| 4 | Mapping exercise to analyse contexts and identify areas for project intervention in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. areas based on a defined criterion, and thereafter, an assessment of the status of EACF’s thematic areas and the interventions geared at preventing Violence against Children (VAC) in the identified districts in the three countries. DLC also identified potential grantee CSOs in each district for EACF’s consideration and brought them together in a consultative workshop with the potential donor. | ||
| 5 | 2014 | Uganda Child Rights NGO Network | Provided technical support to the strategic re-direction and capacity building of the Uganda Child Rights NGO Network. This involved review and refinement of strategic plan, organizational structure, as well as organizational policies and procedures- 2014 |
| 6 | 2014 | Conducted Organisational capacity assessment for 50 child rights organisations in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya to inform the selection of potential grantees to benefit from grants of an anonymous US based Donor to advance the work on preventing violence against children in and around schools and advancing children’s legal rights-2014. | |
| 7 | Conducted the programmatic and organization Review of ACPF 5- year strategic programme. | ||
| 8 | 2011 | Conducted the programmatic and Organizational Mid-Term Review of Evaluation of CHADET, an Ethiopian based child focused NGO partner of CHILDHOPE U.K-2011. | |