Ready-made documents

Funders ask for the same documents again and again. Afrant has a skill for each: a set of instructions the Writing desk follows, and a template with the right sections.

What you can start

• Logical framework: the goal, outcomes, outputs and activities in a table, with indicators and assumptions.
• Theory of change: how the activities lead to the change, with the assumptions stated.
• Monitoring and evaluation plan: each indicator with its baseline, target, source and who collects it.
• Budget narrative: an explanation of each line of the budget you uploaded.
• Work plan: activities by month or quarter, with who is responsible.
• Organisational capacity statement: track record, governance and financial controls.
• Letter of inquiry: a two-page first approach to a foundation.
• Risk and safeguarding: a risk table and a safeguarding statement.
• Sustainability plan: how the work continues after the grant.

Starting one

1. In the sidebar, open Skills and choose the document you need.
2. Pick the grant it is for, or leave it standalone.
3. Press Start a document.
4. Press Draft on each section. Afrant writes from your fact sheet and the call.

You can also start one from Documents, New document, or ask the chat for it.

What to expect

• Every figure comes from your fact sheet or your documents and links to its source.
• Where a fact is missing, Afrant leaves a visible gap in square brackets. It does not invent a baseline, a cost or a policy.
• The budget narrative explains a budget; it does not create one. Upload the budget first.
• Tables export to Word as tables.

The Reviewer's check

Open any document and press Reviewer's check. Afrant reads the draft the way the funder's assessor will and saves a review beside it:

• a verdict and an average score
• a score from 1 to 5 for each of the call's criteria, with the reason
• the three changes that would raise the score most
• what the call asks for that the draft does not have
• numbers and claims that have no fact behind them, or rest on a fact nobody has verified

The review does not change your draft. Run it again after you have made changes and compare the two.

Making a skill your own

Each skill is text you can edit. Open it under Skills, change the instructions and save. The desks follow your version from then on.