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Save the Children, India
(Bal Raksha Bharat)
Grant Management Software
Case Study
Version 1.1
Submitted By
A 37, Sector 63, Noida – 201301 Tel.: +91 (0)120 4600700 Fax: +91 (0)120 2588660
www.turnobiz.com
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Document History
Number/Name and Version
Date Author Remarks
Save the children, India (Bal Raksha Bharat)–
Grant Management System Version 1
09 August 2011
Ashwini Mathur
Based on Interactions during requirement study from 26th July 2011 to 05th
August 2011 Save the children, India
(Bal Raksha Bharat)– Grant Management System Version 1.1
07 September
2013
Samsher Roy
Based on the first FRD reviews with Save the
children team and internal reviews
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Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Purpose ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
About All e Technologies ........................................................................................................................................................ 5
Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................................ 5
Proposed Grant Management System Architecture .................................................................................................. 9
Key Requirements ................................................................................................................................................................. 12
Processes ......................................................................................................................................................................... 12
Outputs ............................................................................................................................................................................. 13
Proposal Development (Proposal Writing) ........................................................................................................... 14
Budgeting ............................................................................................................................................................................. 27
Donor Budgeting and Agreement (Project) ...................................................................................................... 27
Partner Budgeting and Agreement (Project) ................................................................................................... 35
Expenses Management ................................................................................................................................................... 38
ICR Management (Indirect Cost Recovery Charging) ........................................................................................ 41
Grant Valuation .................................................................................................................................................................. 42
Year End Processing ........................................................................................................................................................ 42
State Office Requirements ............................................................................................................................................. 43
H R Requirements ............................................................................................................................................................. 44
General Requirements and Expectations ............................................................................................................... 45
Reports and Analysis ....................................................................................................................................................... 45
MIS Requirements ....................................................................................................................................................... 45
Financial Reporting ..................................................................................................................................................... 50
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Introduction
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children that works
to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children to achieve immediate and
lasting change in their lives. Our founder Eglantyne Jebb drafted the 'Declaration of the
Rights of the Child' in 1922 which was adopted by the League of Nations in 1924. This
became the basis for the United Nations Convention on the rights of the child (UNCRC,
1989). This was even signed by Mahatma Gandhi in 1931. Our association with India is
more than 70 years old.
1st April 2008 Save the Children, India (Bal Raksha Bharat) becomes an independent
member of international Save the Children alliance (Consortium of 29 countries),
responsible for all fundraising and programmatic interventions in India.
Our strategic focus areas are:
Child Survival
We work with communities and the government health systems to reduce preventable deaths, fight under-nutrition, improve new born and maternal health-care. We improve access to basic health care facilities, impart health education, ensure immunization and advocate for the implementation of the Integrated Child Development Scheme.
Child Protection
We work closely with authorities to help prevent children from being exploited. We prevent them from being trafficked into commercial sex, exploitation and child labour. We instigate measures to withdraw child domestic workers as domestic help and enroll them in schools.
Education
We work towards developing education policies, refining vocational skills and advocating for access to school for all the children. Other aspects include tackling poverty, imparting quality education, training teachers and helping communities to run schools. Thus we work towards the creation of quality and inclusive education for all children.
Responding to Emergencies and Disaster Risk Reduction
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We respond immediately to the affected families with food aid, water and essential items and also report long term recovery process for such families. We work to ensure that children and their families are better prepared to cope with emergencies.
In India, Save the Children uses your contribution to support ongoing efforts that facilitate quality inclusive learning environments, increase child survival and improve child protection while championing children’s rights.
Purpose
TOB has conducted requirement study at Save the Children, India, New Delhi to
understand their requirements for the Grant Management System, consolidation of
requirements in the form of functional requirement document (FRD), gap fit document.
This document is base document for the Implementation of Grant Management
System (GMS) and it’s purely based on the interactions and discussion with different teams
from Save the children, India (Bal Raksha Bharat)recorded and circulated to all concerns in
the form of Minutes of Meeting.
About Turn O Biz
TOB is a leading provider of Enterprise Solutions and IT Services in India. Streamlining and automating core business processes, with ‘Product Based’ offerings of Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM solutions, developing ‘Custom Built’ solutions for client specific applications and providing IT Services for all stages of software development and maintenance, we are committed to ‘Helping Clients Succeed’.
TOB is the largest provider of Microsoft Dynamics NAV solutions in India. Years of sharp focus on Navision (Dynamics NAV), a series of high profile, complex and large implementations spanning across all continents, and the shear depth of product knowledge, functional expertise and technical competence of our team have earned us admiration and respect from customers and competitors alike. Microsoft India looks at us as an ‘NAV Competence Center’. Our services are often requisitioned to ‘fix’ off-track implementations.
Executive Summary Management of Grants is currently done through excel sheets and books of accounts are managed
through Sun financial system. Study and analysis conducted by TOB has revealed following
challenges faced due to the lack of an integrated solution:
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Challenge Impact Severity Resolution
Collaborative Document
Management: - Document
preparation (Proposal,
Agreement and Budget)
requires collaborative efforts
from different teams at
different locations and in
present scenario managing
multiple documents with
their versions is a big
challenge.
Timely Delivery
Data Accuracy &
Security
Weak Responsiveness
Communication Gaps
Duplication of work
Indirect Affect on
Finance
Risk - Possibility of
Error
Medium SharePoint Server
will be used for the
collaborative
document
management.
SharePoint
provides secured
centralized access
to documents
repository for
editing, helps in
version
management and
generate alerts –
mails.
Visibility to Unfunded
Salaries: -
Project Staff (Contractual) –
Working full time against the
project wherein the salaries
are funded by specific grant
Core Staff – Salaries Charged
against multiple grants based
on time spent.
Due to lack of funds or
incomplete visibility of funds,
salary gets charged from
Unrestricted fund (URF).
Burden on
Unrestricted Fund
Underutilization of
grants funds
Cash Flow
management
Delay in the planned
activities
Extra effort in Grants
reconciliation
Medium Microsoft
Dynamics NAV
2009 budget
module and
allocation
functionality will
used to map this
requirement.
Visibility to Unrestricted
Funds: - Unrestricted funds
should be utilized for the
organizational growth but
due to lack of visibility or non
availability of funds against
Burden on
Unrestricted Fund
hampers the
organizational growth
High Microsoft Dynamics NAV
2009 budget module and
allocation functionality will
used to map this
requirement.
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the grants, Unrestricted
funds gets utilized for
unplanned activities and
expenses.
Underutilization of
grants funds
Cash Flow affected
Delay in the planned
activities
Extra effort in Grants
reconciliation
Grant Reconciliation: - The
receipts and expenses
against a Grant are reconciled
manually for the timely
receipt of funds from
donor/grantor,
disbursement of funds to
partners for execution, Salary
Charging and Indirect cost
recovery charging (ICR).
Increased efforts in
compilation and
consolidation of the
data.
Delays in Funds
receipts and
disbursement
Cash flow gets affected
Burden on
unrestricted funds
Underutilization of
grants funds
Overall impact on the
execution of the
planned activities.
High Microsoft dynamics
NAV 2009 will be
integrated with Sun
system and excel
sheets to get the
data pertaining to
receipts and
expenses in one
place.
Reports will be
generated to
provide a
consolidated view
of the receipts and
utilization of funds.
MIS Generation: - Timely
and accurate MIS is a key
requirement and currently
this all done manually.
Time, effort and
accuracy
Opportunity Loss
Extra work for the
validations
High Microsoft dynamics NAV
2009, SharePoint
dashboards and SQL Server
Reporting Services will be
used to produce accurate
and timely MIS.
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Proposed Grant Management System Architecture
SQL Server
(OLTP)
MICROSOFT DYNAMICS NAV 2009
Agelis Workflow
SQL Analysis Server
(OLAP)
SHAREPOINT SERVER
- Dash Board
- Document Management
SUN SYSTEMS
One way Integration
(Batch Mode)
EXCEL WORKBOOKS
Project Expenses
System Architecture – Grant Management System
SQL SERVER
REPORTING SERVICES
Grant Management Core Database
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For the configuration, mapping and development of Grant Management system Microsoft dynamics
NAV 2009 will be used with SQL server 2008 as the backend database.
Data Security Layer
Data Security will be managed in the following way
1. Microsoft Windows Server domain network security
2. Microsoft SQL server 2008 user access rights and permission
3. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 user roles and permission
Approvals Management
Microsoft Dynamics NAV – 2009 add on “Agiles Workflow” will be used to activate the electronic
workflow management within the Grant Management System. This will enable following
functionality in the system
Condition based Approval workflow.
Enabling mandatory fields on different data capturing forms.
Email based alerts.
Centralized Document Management
For creating and maintaining centralized document repository SharePoint will be used and it helps
in following way
Maintaining Document Templates
Maintaining Grant related documents
Maintaining different team structures required for the proposal development and grant
execution with specific roles and permissions.
Electronic Archiving and Version Management
Document Workflows
For the Generation of Alerts and Reminders
Integration with SUN system
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For capturing the state office expenses from SUN financial system data will be pulled out from the
SUN system in the predefined excel sheet format and will be incorporated into Grant Management
System through data ports (method of uploading data).
Management Information System
Management Information can be accessed in following way
1. Static information related to grants and its execution can be accessed
a. In the form of excel sheets from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009.
b. Customized Reports as per the requirements.
2. Dynamic Information donor specific formats or other dynamics reports
a. By taking out data from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 into Excel and populate
in the required formats.
b. By the use of ad hoc reporting tool like Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services.
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Grant Management System Overview
Proposal
Donor Budgeting
Partner Budgeting
Accounting of expenses
Management of
expenses
Project Budgeting
Expense Allocation & Charging
Charging ICR
MIS
Key Requirements
Processes
Save the children expectation from the Grant Management System
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S. No. Process Name Process Type
1 Proposal Writing Non Financial
2 Pipeline Grants Non Financial
3 Budgeting Financial
4 Contracts and Agreements Non Financial
5 Salary Allocations Financial
6 Management of Co financing grants Financial
7 Management of Emergency Grants Financial
8 Inventory Records Financial
9 Management of Indirect Cost Recovery Financial
10 Expenses Management Financial
11 Electronic Archiving Non Financial
Outputs
S. No. Reports Type
1 Financial Reporting Financial
2 Debtor Analysis Financial
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3 Cash Flow Financial
4 ICR Reporting Financial
5 Budget v/s. Actual Financial
6 Gratuity Calculation Financial
8 Schedules Reporting (Income, Audit) Financial
9 MIS report for Senior Management Team Financial
10 Analysis Financial
11 Audit Issues Financial
12 Narrative Reports Non Financial
13 Reports to HR – Vacancies View Non Financial
14 Alerts and Reminders Non Financial
15 Graphical Representation Financial/ Non Financial
Proposal Development (Proposal Writing)
Types of Funds
Grants are fund required to meet the project objective
Grants are classified as follows
Grant/Funds
Restricted
Unrestricted
Funds
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Grants can be further classified as follows
Institution
Corporate
Bilateral
Save the children, India receives 3 types of funds
Restricted Funds: Funds Received for the predefined activities (Framework)
Unrestricted Funds: Funds received for the organizational growth.
Floods
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Linked Funds: Funds Linked to purpose like flood relief, Tsunami etc. and these
funds cannot be utilized for other purposes.
Pipeline Grants /Funding Opportunity
Proposal Development process initializes with the opportunity identification. Identified
opportunities are Pipeline grants. Save the children, India identifies the opportunity in
the following way:-
Donor Approaches Save the Children, India directly : In this form of
opportunity donor from anywhere in the world will approach save the
children India to provide funds for cause related to children’s education,
survival, protection etc.
Any member of save the children alliance from all over the world approaches
save the children, India with funds linked to specific cause related to children’s
education, survival, protection etc.
Save the children, India marketing department indentifies opportunity
through open calls, opportunities published in news papers, Internet etc.
Indentifies donor’s to fund the existing grant where there is a shortage of funds
or there will be possibility of shortage of funds in future.
Proposal Development (Proposal Writing)
After the identification of the opportunity save the children, India senior
management team (SMT) decides to proceed further with opportunity and “Proposal
Focal Point” (Person responsible for all the activities of the proposal making) will be
named.
After that Grant Manager will circulate the opportunity sheet and Proposal Focal
Point designs the project strategy, outline and budget form and this will be sent to
Grants Manager for Approval.
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Grant Manager send this document to National Manager for the approval and after
the approval Proposal Focal Point draft the Donor Proposal or Concept Note and
feedback from finance team, national managers and other staff will be recorded.
These feedbacks will be incorporated into Final Proposal document by Proposal focal
point and this will be sent to Grants Manager and Grants Manager checks this
proposal for the compliances.
Grants Manager will create Proposal Authorization Document and this will be sent to
Director of program (DOP/SMT) for final approval and submission to Donor/Grantor.
Proposal Development Requirements/Expectation from System
Each grant is a project and has unique code for the identification and this is called
Funding Source Code (FSC).
In Present system funding source code consist for 4 digits.
Grants coming from save the children, UK indentified with 4 numeric digits.
Grants coming through Allianz partners starts with A and 3 integers as
successor.
Grants coming through India starts with L and 3 integers as successor.
Grants coming through institution start with I and 3 Integers as successor.
Grantor is the entity/institution who actually releases the funds to save the children,
India through sub grant agreement. In some case a donor can be a grantor also but
not in all the cases.
Details required to be captured for donor/grantor:-
1. Name of the institution
2. Address
3. City
4. State
5. Zip code
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6. Country
7. Currency
8. Phone / Fax No.
9. Email address
10. Website
11. Contact Person
12. Identification (Donor / Grantor)
Each donor/grantor has multiple divisions and for that system should be capable to
record the administrative data division wise
Point of Contact
1. Name
2. Department
3. Phone No. / Fax No.
4. Email Address
5. Finance Contact
6. Name
7. Department
8. Phone No. / Fax No.
9. Email Address
10. Decision Maker
11. Name
12. Department
13. Phone No. / Fax No.
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14. Email Address
Proposal should maintain the budget in donor currency as well as conversion into local currency (INR).
System should maintain the multiple versions of the proposal document and should provide the facility to signoff electronically for the final proposal.
System should be able to manage the inputs from multiple teams including teams from state offices for the proposal development and provide mechanism to simultaneously access the documents during the proposal to multiple teams.
System should be able to manage the multiple versions of the proposal document and active version of the proposal should be accessible to the proposal development teams based on their access rights.
System should be able to obtain the multilevel approval (technically and financially) and comments as per the hierarchy of the proposal development teams.
System should provide tracking of funding opportunity in terms:-
Recording of Negotiations (Textual) with donor.
Proposal Stage and Risk level.
Status (Win or Loss).
System should maintain THEME (ex. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan) – Purpose Each theme has hierarchy
National Manager State Program Manager Program Coordinator (Multiple)
Grants/ Finance Officer
HQs SO
National Manager – Education
Grants Manager
Grants Officer
State Program Manager
Program Coordinator
Grants/Finance Officer
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System should provide currency exchange rates for the conversion.
System should provide facility to attach multiple documents during the proposal development phase.
System should maintain the history of the proposals and should provide facility to access and linkup the similar kind of proposals during the proposal development phase.
System should record the rejections reason for the rejected proposals by the donors so that analysis can be done later on the basis of rejection reason.
Provision for work group definition for proposal writing and person involved in the group should get intimation for the prior member completion of activities.
In the proposal development, system should maintain proposal development
controlling sheet consisting of
Opportunity Activities
Duration
Responsible Person
Status
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Process Mapping – Recommendations
Funding opportunity and proposal development will be managed through
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009
Sharepoint server
Following Activities will be carried out in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV after the
opportunity identified and decision to go ahead with the opportunity:-
Funding Source Code Master Creation
For funding source code maintenance General Ledger database will be used and a new
form will be created for the data entry purpose.
Funding Source Code (FSC) will be generated by the system, based on predefined user
configurable no. series and this no. series will be of maximum 20 alphanumeric
characters where the logic for the configuration of no. series is as follows:-
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a. Grants coming from save the children, UK indentified with 4 numeric
digits.
b. Grants coming through Allianz partners starts with A and 3 integers as
successor.
c. Grants coming through India starts with L and 3 integers as successor.
d. Grants coming through institution start with I and 3 Integers as successor.
System will not restrict change in logic for the generation of Funding Source Code
based on no. series and this can be change by configuring a new no. series.
To accommodate the requirement of funding source code classification fields will be
customized and these fields values are user defined:-
a. FSC Category (Restricted, Unrestricted Funds, Lined Funds)
b. FSC Sub Category (Normal, Emergency)
c. FSC Sub Category 1 (Tsunami, Floods, Earthquakes etc.)
d. FSC Sub Category 2 (Institution, Corporate, Bilateral)
To accommodate the requirement of funding source code type an option field will be
provided with user defined values (Donor Approaches, Alliance Member Approaches,
Public Media/Open Calls and Funding for Existing Grant)
In case of funding required for the existing grant a field will be provided to link the
existing fund sourcing code where the additional fund is required.
A Status field with provision for user defined values will be added in the database of
funding source code and this field will maintain the funding source code (grant) status
(for ex. Under Development, Work in Progress, Closed).
Donor/Grantor Master Creation
Donor/grantor database will be mapped to the Vendor database in Navision which
provides all the fields required to maintain the donor details.
Database type field will differentiate the Donor and Grantor data.
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2 Separate forms will be used for the entry and view of the donor and grantor data.
Blocked field will be used to maintain the status of the Donor/Grantor (Working /
Non Working).
Currency & Exchange Rate Master Creation
Currency database will be used as is in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 there will
be no change in the currency database required.
Currency database maintains multiple currencies with their date wise exchange rates
THEME Master Creation
Theme will be maintained as global dimension 1 in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009.
System has provision to upload the theme database from excel templates through
data port facility in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009.
Budget Line/ Activities Master Creation
Budget Line/ Activities will be maintained as Global Dimension 2 in the Microsoft
Dynamics NAV 2009
These budget line/ activities will be defined for the FSC Code
System has the provision to upload the Budget Line / Activities master data excel
sheet through data ports.
Department Master Creation
Department will be maintained as shortcut dimension 3 in the Microsoft dynamics
NAV 2009
Department List excel sheet can be uploaded using data port facility of Microsoft
Dynamics NAV 2009
Employee Master Creation
Employee database will be available with all the required details in Microsoft
Dynamics NAV 2009 and the same will be used to maintain the employee data.
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Employee list can be uploaded using data port facility of Microsoft Dynamics NAV
2009.
Proposal Focal Point
Proposal Focal Point (PFP) will be mapped with the Sales/Purchase Person database
in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
A form will be customized to maintain the details of Proposal focal point.
Proposal development team
Team will be shortcut dimension 4 where Proposal development team will be defined
using employee master.
A form will be created using dimension value database and employee database.
Proposal Development
Proposal part will be customized in the Microsoft dynamics NAV 2009 using the
Purchase Quote functionality of the base Navision.
For the creation of the proposal document following master database will be
referred:-
i. FSC (Fund Sourcing Code)
ii. Donor/Grantor
iii. Proposal focal point
iv. Proposal Team
v. Currency and Exchange Rate
vi. THEME
vii. Division
viii. Employee
ix. Budget/Activities Line
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Budget Line database will be linked with the Proposal Document for capturing the
budgeted activities, duration and budgeted amount.
Using Agiles workflow complete proposal development activities will be defined with
duration for the completion and person responsible.
Agiles workflow will helps in maintaining and tracking of the proposal development
activities and escalation matrix will be defined for the generation of alerts and mails.
Document linking facility will be used to attach the actual proposal document.
Field to capture the Proposal Acceptance and Rejections will be provided with
provision for the entering the reason in case of rejections.
After the approval of the proposal the same document will get converted to the
Agreement.
To look for similar kind of proposals system has search and filters based on the user
defined criterion, alike proposals can be retrieved from the history of the proposals
available in the system and these proposals can be used as templates for the creation
of new proposals by simply copying it from the history.
Document Management
Sharepoint will help in managing the complete proposal documents repository at
centralized locations.
This repository will be accessed throughout the organization by the different teams
for the proposal development activities independent of the location using internet.
After the identification of the opportunity a Sharepoint link will be created in the
system.
Proposal focal point will be the administrative user of this Sharepoint link and will
define the complete team structure and the approval hierarchy in the Sharepoint.
Documents for the proposal development will be created and kept in the folder and
access will be provided to the proposal development team based on their roles and
permission for editing.
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A controlling sheet will be defined using Sharepoint where all the list of activities,
duration (from date and to date) and responsible person will be defined and this will
maintain the real time status of the proposal development activity.
Mails and alerts are configured to intimate the completion of the prior activities or to
intimate the delay in the activities.
All the documents will be linked to the proposal document created in the Microsoft
Dynamics NAV.
Final proposal approval and submission will be carried out using the Sharepoint
workflow.
All the negotiations with donor/grantor related to the grants can be recorded using
the discussion forum in SharePoint.
Integration
Sharepoint Integration with Navision will be devised for maintaining the
synchronization and updating of the proposal development activities and master
information in the Sharepoint from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 (Grant
Management System).
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Budgeting
Donor Budgeting and Agreement (Project)
After the confirmation from the donor/grantor for the receipt of the grants donor contract document will be prepared which will be signed by Grants Manager. Agreement with donor will be generated from the predefined templates and only the editing area marked in the template will get modified based on the roles and permission of the user. Budgets will be prepared in Donor Currency for the complete duration and breakups are available monthly, quarterly and yearly.
Budgets for total Project duration Budgets for Year 1...
Exp
ense
s
Unit No. of
Units
Unit
Rate
in INR
Unit
rate in
donor
curre
ncy
Cos
t in
INR
Cos
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don
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ren
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Un
it
No.
of
Uni
ts
Un
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Ra
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in
IN
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Unit
Rate
in
don
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Curr
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Cos
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INR
Cost
in
Don
or
Curr
ency
Monthly budget should not exceed yearly budget.
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Monthly distribution of grant budget is available for the current year while for the
subsequent years, save the children, India wants system to divide the yearly budget by
12 to have the monthly breakup for the comparison purpose. Later on these figures will
be replaced by actual for the year.
While defining the budget lines system should keep provision for defining the
permissible adjustments % and based on the defined % system should allow values
adjustments between the budget lines validating adjustments should not be more than
the total budgeted amount
While defining the budget lines SUN financial system Codes will be mapped with the donor budget line and following scenarios are possible:-
One line to many accounts codes
Many lines to one account code
One to One
Exchange rates will be recorded at the time of budget preparation and based on these exchange rates budgets will be converted into the local currency.
Provision for the liquidation letter templates in the system required so that save the
children, India will generate liquidation letter from the system after the completion of
project.
System must have provision for inserting special terms and conditions.
Donor Agreement must have indication whether income is received in advance or in the
form of arrears.
Save the children receives the funds from donor/grantor after deducting the
administrative charges by the grantor if donor and grantor are two different entities
while if donor is grantor then save the children, India receives complete fund without any
deduction.
Save the children, India disburses the funds to Partners after deducting their
administrative expenses.
Example Structure of the GRANT
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Grant Code FSC_7100SSA for Euro 1000 and allocation of grant is as below:-
# Description Other State Office Partners
1 IOE 200
2 Delhi 50 150
3 AP 50 200
4 J&K 50 100
5 Orissa 10 40
6 Rajasthan 20 40
7 HQ 50
System should be able to generate the view of grant allocation as mentioned in the above
picture.
System should be capable enough to manage and present the above mentioned view for
the multiple grants
System should be able to archive MOU document with grantor/donor.
Tracking of funding component will be required against the grant for
Lease
Vehicle
Human Resource
Office running demand
These components are purchased from the grant money.
System should be able to record the extension/revisions in the grant duration and value
with proper attachment of signed agreement, changed income and reporting schedule.
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Foreign exchange gain or loss occurs due to currency exchange fluctuations while
booking the expenses against the budget lines, financial reporting and gain or loss in
currency impacts the unrestricted fund in following way:-
If there is a gain local currency due to currency exchange rate fluctuations then
burden on unrestricted funds or general funds will get reduced automatically.
If there is a loss in local currency due to currency exchange rate fluctuations then
burden on unrestricted funds or general funds will get increased.
System should be able to maintain grouping hierarchy of budget line like:- Child Protection
o A.1 Education B.1 Training
Following Information will be recorded during the project creation (Agreement with Donor)
TAB – 1 (Project Information) Basic Project information required is as below:-
FSC Code (Fund Source Code)
Project Description
Project Duration (From Date and To Date)
Start Financial Year (From Date and To Date)
Current Financial Year (From Date and To Date)
Donor Details
Grantor Details
Exchange Rate
Total Budget (Proposed) in foreign currency (donor currency)
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Sanctioned Budget in foreign currency (donor currency)
Total Budget in Local Currency (INR)
Sanctioned Budget in Local Currency (INR)
THEME of the project (Project Subject Line for ex. Education)
ICR Information
ICR (Indirect Cost Recovery) are the overheads/ administrative cost to be charged
against the grant quarterly in present scenario. ICR will be divided into 2 parts (1)
Grantor % of ICR (2) Save the children, India % of ICR if donor and grantor are the 2
different entities but if donor and grantor are the same then total ICR will be charged by
save the children, India. ICR will be charged against the donor budget line.
System should capture the information about indirect cost recovery against the
project:-
Indirect Cost Flag (Yes/No)
Total Indirect Cost %
Grantor %
Save the children India %
TAB – 2 (Reporting / Schedule for one Grant)
These are the reports required by the grantor/donor to check the status of the grant
execution and these reports will be generated from the system for the defined period
and on the specified dates.
Date Particulars Period
31/10/10 Interim Reports 01/07/10..30/09/10
31/01/11 Interim Reports 01/10/10..31/12/10
31/10/13 Interim Reports 01/07/10..30/06/13
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System should have provision to configure the reporting schedule against project for
the donor/grantor.
System should facilitate in capturing the donor/grantor reporting formats. These
formats will change from grants to grants.
System should be able to generate the reports based on the defined reporting schedule
in the project.
System should be able to generate the proactive alerts and reminders for the
forthcoming reporting schedule to all the concerned.
System should be able to provide filtration and navigation for how many grants are
running at any moment of time in states.
TAB – 3 (Audit Requirement)
Audit Requirements is required to record the auditor’s comments for the grant and also
generate the reports in the donor/grantor prescribed format.
Date Particulars Period
30/10/11 Audit Reports Y1 01/07/10..30/06/10
System should be able to capture the auditor information.
System should have provision to configure the audit requirements against project for
the donor/grantor.
System should be able to generate audit certification in donors prescribed format
against the project.
System should be able to generate the grant evaluation certification, format will be
provided by save the children, India.
System should be able to generate the proactive alerts and reminders for the
forthcoming reporting schedule to all the concerned.
System should be able to record the auditor’s recommendations in textual format.
Recommendations Planned Implemented
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TAB – 4 (Income Schedule)
Income schedule defines the disbursement of fund from the donor to save the
children, India against the project (grant). This schedule will be defined in the
donor/grantor currency with the date of receipt of payment. This also defines the
payment terms with donor/grantor and maintains the status of the payment.
System should be able to manage the Income schedule against the project with
following details
Date Currency Amount Remarks Received
01/07/10 Euro 100000 Pre financing 80%
of Year 1 budget
Yes
System should be able to track income schedule against the total budgeted amount.
System should be able to generate proactive reminders and alerts against the
forthcoming income schedule to all the concerned.
System should be able to generate alerts and reminders for the payment not received
against the income schedule.
Payment Request Form
Form will be generated to request donor/grantor for the release of payment as per
the Income Schedule. This form will be generated in the donor/grantor provided format
and these formats will be recorded in the system as template. In case where payment
request form is not generated as per the income schedule, system should generate alerts
and reminders to all the concerned.
Co financing Grants
Project funded by more than one grants are called co financing grants. In this type of
projects more than one donor/grantor will contribute for the purpose. Major funding will
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be given by main donor/grantor while the remaining part will be funded by one or more
than one donor/grantor.
Total Project Cost = Contribution of Main donor + Supplementary Donor
Example 100% = FSC_6468_EC (80%) +FSC_6391_Reckitt Benckiser (20%)
While creating the project system should ask for Co financing grants (Yes/No)
System should be able to capture the multiple grants against one project
Expenses allocation against the grant is done manually.
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Partner Budgeting and Agreement (Project) Partners are Indian NGO where save the children; India is collaborating with for implementing activities in the field. After finalization of contract with donor/grantor, save the children, India will find out interested and relevant partner to take up the project and finalize the agreement with them. System should be able to generate the partner agreement based on the templates provided by save the children, India. System should be able to manage and generate partner’s agreement in line with grant and donor/grantor agreement. System should be able to manage the partner detailed budget for the complete duration of the grant in Local Currency with detailed activities mapping with SUN financial Codes to capture the expenses details. Partner agreement needs to be approved based on the value of agreement by the
group of approver and all the members of the approver’s team should get alert and
reminder for the pending approval from their side.
TAB – 1
In this tab information administrative information of the partner will be captured
along with total budget, total allocations to partners from the budget and what is the
remaining budget available against the grant.
Partner Details
Name of the institution
Address
City
State
Zip code
Country
Currency
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Phone / Fax No.
Email address
Website
Contact Person
Overall budget allocated to the partner
Budget available under FSC
Remaining Budget
To incorporate the expenses data from the SUN financial system provision for the SUN
financial code against the detailed budget line will be required.
SUN Financial
Code
Detailed
Budget Line
(DBL)
Activities Units Unit
Rate
Total
Budget
1200 1.1.1 Project
director –
Salary
1200 1.1.2 Project
coordinator
salary
1200 1.1.3 Field worker
salary
System should validate the budget availability before the generation of partner’s
agreement and in case budget is not available system should restrict the agreement
generation.
System should be able to manage the multiple budget revisions and after the revision
system should allow to generate agreement.
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TAB – 2 – Disbursement Schedule
Partner’s disbursement schedule will be captured in this tab to get the
information on which date, what amount and what are the preconditions to release the
payment to the partners.
Based on this information proactive alerts and reminders will be generated to all the
concerned.
Total amount disbursed to partner should not exceed the total budgeted amount and
in this case system should restrict the disbursement activity.
Date Amount Conditions (Payment Terms)
01/08/10 100000 On Signing of the agreement
31/12/10 400000 On submission of the final report
Request for Funds (RFF)
Request for fund is initiated by the state offices on behalf of the partners in the excel
format against the budget line for specified period in disbursement schedule. Sun
financial system code is entered manually against the budget line. Form will be sent to
head office and after approval funds will be released to the partners via state office
capturing details like mode of payment, Cheque No and date. Electronic signoff and
approval will be required in the new system. Financial transactions for releasing the
funds are carried out in SUN financial system. Automatic generation of Request for funds
will be required in the new system against the disbursement schedule or based on the
utilization of payments by the partners.
Before releasing the funds request system should validate against the utilization of
funds against the payments made to partners, if partner has not utilized fund completely
then the remaining part of fund will be deducted from the current payments manually.
Based on the utilization of the funds by the partners save the children, India would like
to know the partners absorption capacity.
TAB – 3 – Reporting Schedule
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Descriptive reports stating the exact status and issues of the grants submitted by the
state offices to Head Quarter on specified dates. These reports are submitted in specified
formats decided at the time of the agreements. In present scenario lot of follow-ups and
efforts is required in terms generation of these reports, accuracy of these reports, risk of
missing information and missing the deadlines. To intimate about the forthcoming
reports system should be able to generate the proactive alerts and reminders to all the
concerned and on submission of these reports system should also update the status
against these reports and generate mails to intimate all the concerned.
Date Nature Period
31/01/11 Narrative Financial Reports 01/07/10..31/12/10
TAB – 4 – Audit Reports
Audit Reports requirement from the partner’s perspective will be generated from this
tab in the prescribed format stored in the form of templates in the system. These reports
will be generated based on defined schedule in the system. Proactive Alerts and
reminders are required to intimate the concerned team members and also for
maintaining the reports status (Received, Not Received).
TAB – 5 (Contract Closure)
After the Financial report reconciliation with books of accounts maintained in the
SUN system, narrative reports completion and review by National Manager, Grant
Manager and Director of program. Final report will be submitted by grants team
concluded by final payments and grant file closure with status flag as follows:-
Objectives Met
Grant Over
Termination
After the grant file closure system should not allow any changes.
Expenses Management
Expenses reported by the partner’s against the project will be recorded in the system
through the predefined format of the excel sheet and will be uploaded in the system at
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state office. This data will be validated by the state offices and then it comes to head
quarters for final validation and posting. Expenses are of following types:-
General Expenses
Utilities, Stationery, Rent etc. are allocated against the budget line while system
should be able project unfunded expenses part from the grants.
These expenses are charged against the budget lines of the grants through the
excel sheet generated from the SUN financial system and partners expenses are
charged through the expenses excel sheet provided by the state offices.
System should provide facility to book the provisional expenses and these
expenses can be booked between the grant start date and end. There should be
validation for financial year while booking the expenses.
Note :( provision posting needed for varience with budget )
Mandatory to select new files of FSC code / g/l which validate the posting date
with agreement period
Salary Expenses
Core Staff Salaries are funded by the multiple grants based on their planned
activities while remaining unfunded part of the staff salaries are allocated against
the unrestricted fund. On the arrival of any new grant unfunded salaries will be
reallocated against the newly arrived grants.
Getting the view of unfunded salaries part is the difficult area of the present
manual system and new system should be able to project the unfunded salaries
part against the multiple grants.
While allocating resources against the budget line, new system should prompt
with the remaining salary part of the resource.
Actual Salaries will be booked in the SUN financial system and salary charged part
will be extracted from the SUN system through the excel sheets and uploaded into
the new system.
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Project Staff Salaries Dedicated resource working against the specific grant and
their salaries are always funded by the specific grants while charging process will
be same.
System should be able to redistribute the allocated salary in case of arrival of new
grant. If any new grant will come then core staff salary will be redistributed
among all the available grants including new grants.
Validations
System should validate the allocations and charging with total grant duration and
beyond the duration of the grant system should allocate and charge any expenses.
System should also validate the allocations and charging against the financial year as
well, those expenses are allocated against the year budget should not get charged beyond
the financial year.
Data will be uploaded into grant management system after complete validations but
posting will be carried out only after the approval. Data before posting will be available
for all the kinds of reporting.
System should be able to restrict the duplicate expenses uploading from the SUN financial
system through the excel sheet.( doc no )
Alert required if entries for the last financial year from sun system uploaded to GMS with
transaction date between financial year, current entry date and previous financial year
Transaction date Entry Date Financial Year 31/3/2010 04/08/10 2009-10
No correction entries in the Grant Management system should be allowed after the donor
reporting period.
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ICR Management (Indirect Cost Recovery Charging)
ICR charging is recovery of the administrative/overhead expenses of save the
children, India and Grantor (if donor and grantor are not same). ICR percentages for save
the children, India and Grantor are defined within the grant. ICR is charged quarterly and
will be booked in the SUN financial system. SUN financial system has no built in
validations for the ICR charging based on the defined percentages in the grant hence
there will be possibility of errors while charging.
Grant ICR Total ICR Total Expenses
Eligible ICR
Actual ICR
Balance
SCI Grantor 6592 10% 10% 20% 100000 10000 15000 -5000 A050 7% 7% 14% 500000 50000 15000 +35000
In the new system to avoid these kinds of errors following checks and validations are
required:-
Posting will be done after the complete validations.
System should validate the ICR charging at the time of data uploading through the
excel sheet against the percentages defined in the grant and system should report
in case of any discrepancy or variations in ICR charging.
ICR charging should not be greater than percentage defined in the grant
ICR charging should also check against the remaining ICR to be charged
Validation for the financial year and the grant year is mandatory while charging
the ICR system should restrict the booking of ICR of previous financial year in the
current financial year and also beyond grant completion year system should
restrict the booking of ICR.
System should provide consolidated view of ICR charged and remaining against the
multiple grants stating how ICR has been charged for the grantor and save the children,
India and how much is remaining against both the entities.
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FSC Donor/Grantor Save the children, India ICR
Claimed
Grantor ICR
claimed
A001 SCC 100000 $ 10000
A004 SCS 400000 Pounds 23000
7100 SC UK 100000 Euro 8000
6121 ECHO 400000 Euro 20000
6848 EU - -
Grant Valuation
Valuation of the grant for the required for the defined duration to generate the donor based
reporting. In the valuation complete income and expenditure will be valued based on the
currency exchange rates provided by the donor or based on the method to calculate the currency
exchange rate. These methods could be FIFO, LIFO, Weighted Average, Specific etc. For the grant
valuation it is mandatory to know the exact method and formulation to calculate the exchange
rate or direct exchange rate valuation and this information has to be provided by save the
children, India.
Year End Processing
This process will be carried out to close the yearly budgeted activities. The remaining amount
against the donor and partner budgeting lines will be carry forward to the next year budget lines.
After running this process system should not allow any transactions against the closed year. This
process will be carried out yearly for the defined grant duration and financial year duration. For
the conversion into local currency system would ask for the conversion factor to be used.
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State Office Requirements
Consolidation of state office requirements after the discussion with Andhra
Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir and Gujarat state executives are as
follows:-
State program manager’s (SPM) will be able to view only data related to their state.
Provision for recording status information on government returns (FC3 and Income Tax)
to be submitted by the partners and based on the status system should generate the
reminders and alerts to all the concerned:-
Return Received and Archived
Returns Received and Not Archived
Electronic archiving of these returns against the partner data is required.
System should maintain prerequisites for making the partners agreement.
System should validate the expenditure booking while uploading the data from excel
sheet of SUN financial system and partners expenses excel sheet by the state offices and
total expenses can never be more than the total income.
System must have provision to record the partner’s income like interest income of any
partner on grant money.
Required Monitoring of Inventory Records against the grant at state office level like
vehicles, land, equipments etc in new Grant Management system
To meet out the monthly expenditure of the state offices, system must be able to generate
the monthly fund request from state office to head quarters.
State Office Reporting Requirements
System should provide the consolidated view of partner’s and state office expenses in
local as well as donor/grantor currency.
Report required for Budget V/s. Expenses Monthly and Quarterly
Cash flow statement for the state offices.
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H R Requirements
Save the children, India has already implemented and in present scenario
integration between grant management system and payroll system is out of scope.
Save the children, India would like to maintain the complete employee structure in
the Grant Management system. There are 2 types of employees are maintained
1. Core Staff: - Permanent staff works against the multiple grants
2. Project Staff:- Contractual Staff hired against the projects
Save the children, India would like to maintain the complete employee history from
the days of joining till the last day of the employee in terms:-
1. Name
2. Designation
3. Date of Joining
4. Education
5. Basic Skill details
6. Skill Upgrading
7. Leave History
8. Time Sheets
9. Employee Appraisals
10. Salary Revisions
11. Other Details
Save the children, India would like to view the employee salary allocation against
the grant and the basis of allocations. This view also projects the unfunded salary part of
the employee.
While planning the employees against the grant budget line any position left
vacant should get highlighted to HR department for the recruitment purpose.
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For costing, budgeting and advertisement purpose position wise salary record
would be maintained in the Grant Management System.
Gratuity calculation will be required based on the employee database and system
should project the employees those who are matured for the gratuity based on their
appointment date.
System should be able to record the complete CTC.
Analysis is required on Currency exchange gain or loss for the salary planned
with some exchange rate and booking of actual salary expenses with some different
exchange rate.
Inventory Records (Fixed Assets) will be maintained in Grant Management System,
data will be provided by SCI in excel sheets. GMS system must have provision to upload
the values of Inventory from SUN System
General Requirements and Expectations
Although system captures lot of financial requirements but the look and feel of the
system should be non financial and ease of use is the key success factor. New Grant
Management System should follow the color scheme of the Save the children, India and
this can be adopted from their website.
Management of save the children event Calendar in GMS application
System should provide the facility for publication of reports in GMS application
Reports and Analysis
MIS Requirements
Income and Payment Analysis
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Report will provide the view of the incoming funds and payment for the specific
duration and subsequently it helps in fund planning and prioritizing like in some cases
there will not be enough funds available against the grant and to meet out the expenses
other grants funds or unrestricted fund will be utilized. Graphical representation of this
information is required.
Inflow of Funds Outflow of Funds FSC 08 09 10 11 12 Tot 08 09 10 11 12 Tot 7100 10L 10L 20L 15L 15L 30L A028 15L 15L 15L 10L 25L A029 10L 10L 5L 25L 10L 10 5 25L A021 15L 20L 35L A050 50L 100L 150
L
DEBT Analysis
Ageing reports will be required to know the outstanding payment request for the defined duration. Due days will be calculated from income receipt date mentioned in donor/grantor income schedule. System should also consider the outstanding amounts for which payment request has not been raised. System should be able to generate email and send the email of this report to donor/grantor.
Grant < Month > Quarter < 6 Months
More Than 6 Months
A005 Euro 10000 6848 5964 Euro
400000
A021 Pound 200000
Donor Budgeting – Variance Analysis
Report will present consolidated grant wise view of variance recorded from the
approved budget.
FSC Approved Budget Actual Cost Variance
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Budgeted V/s. Expenses against Partner’s Agreement
Report is partner wise and against the partner budget line. Report will present the
view of the different budget line activities with their budgeted amount, expenses
uploaded from SUN financial system and balance left out against the budget line.
Budget Expenses From SUN Balance
Employee wise Salary Tracking
This report will be used to know the employee wise salary allocation against the
multiple grants in donor/grantor currency and local currency based on the
exchange rate defined by the user for the conversion.
Ex.
Rate/
Categ
ory
FSC1
1/1/10 to
30/6/10
FSC2
1/4/09 to
31/3/12
FSC3
1/7/10 to
30/6/10
URF
1/1/10 to
31/12/
10
Total
Em
p.
Monthly
Salary
60 58 55
A 100000 100 Euro 200 400 400
Rs.10000 20000 20000 50000 1000
0
Rs.12000 23000 22000 42800 1000
0
Grant Analysis
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Grant Analysis view will be required to know the exact percentage utilization of
the budget against the different budget major heads grant wise and for all the grants.
Major Heads of Budgeting Absolute Cost (Amt.) % of Budget Program Cost Capital Cost Personnel Cost Admin Cost
Budget Vs. Actual
Employee wise Salary allocations and charging against the multiple grants and
this report will also project the utilization of unrestricted fund
Emp. CTC Particulars FSC1 FSC2 FSC3 URF Total A 1000
000 Budgeted 50000 40000 100000 810000 1000000
Actual 30000 20000 70000 600000 720000 20000 20000 30000 210000 280000
State wise grant overview
Consolidated state wise overview of the grant
Grant State – 1 State – 2 State – 3 Budgeted Actual Budgeted Actual Budgeted Actual FSC_H023_A031
Grant Summary
Grant Classification and sub classification wise summary to know the exact state of the grants
Class Sub class Grant1 Grant2 Grant3 Emergency Tsunami Flood
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Employee wise Salary Allocations
View of Employee and category wise salary allocations against the multiple
grants
Emp. Category
1/7/10 to 31/12/10
1/1/10 to 30/9/10
1/4/10 to 31/3/11
1/7/10 to 30/6/11
URF Total
FSC1 FSC2 FSC3...FSC60 A Regula
r
B Regular
Designation and person wise salary charging against the grant
Grant PC FM NM FSC1 10000 15000 25000 FSC2 25000 12000 10000 FSC3 30000 40000 50000 FSC4 5000 8000 5000 URF 0000 10000 50000 50000
Other Reporting Requirements
Gant chart reporting is required for the execution of grant against the budget line
activities planned with their multiple revisions. This reporting will help SCI in
identifying Planned V/s. Actual
Top 10 Grants report, format not provided.
Report will be required against yearly budget as well as overall budget
Partner wise expenses report for any grant (grant wise)
Partner Ledger Report (format will be provided by save the children, India)
Fund Reconciliation Statement (format will be provided by save the children, India)
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Financial Reporting
Cash Flow Statement
Provides the view of inflow and outflow of the cash and its equivalents, cash flow
statement will be prepared considering the total grant duration and total budgets. Cash
flow provides the view of the income against the different running grants and linked
commitments in terms of payments to partners to meet out the expenses. Cash flow also
helps in fund planning and prioritizing. Total cash flow will be sub divided yearly
considering the total duration of the grant.
FSC Donor/Grantor/Partner
Total Budget
Recd. Till date
Jan. Feb.
Mar. Apr… Dec
Total
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A001 SC, Canada 6200000 E 100000
E 25000
E 25000
E 50000
200000
Payments FSC Partner Budget Paid till Jan Feb Mar. Apr…
Dec Total
Budget V/s. Expenses
Provides the view of budgeted v/s. actual for the budgeted lines stating the details units
budgeted, rate and amount v/s. how many units’ expenses has been booked at what rate
and what will be the variance from the budgeted.
Budget Expense UNI
T RATE Amt. UNIT RATE AMT. Variance
Salary Program Coordinator 9 60000 540000
6 60000 360000
180000
Fund Utilization as on ….. This report will be generated to know the exact fund utilization against the planned budgeted line. This report will be able to generate the view % utilization requisition fund against the planned expenditure, % utilization of obligated (Actual calculated expenses for ex. Rs. 10000 Purchase order has been given to Vendor for the supply of stationery) against the received fund and % utilization of actual spent against the fund received (for ex. against the release of Rs. 10000 Purchase order save the children, India has paid 9500 after the deduction of Rs. 500 for the short receipt of the material)
Budget Lines
Planned Expenditure
Requisition Funded
% of Requisition against planned
Obligated (Actual Calculated)
% of obligated against funded
Actual Spent
% of Spent against funded
Cost Center 1 (Head Office)
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Cost center wise budgeting and booking of actual expenses will be done and
consolidation of these transactions provides the cost center wise views (i.e. head office
and state office)
Activity Budgeted Actual Variance
Cost Center 2 (State Office) Activity Budgeted Actual Variance
Save the Children requires a Sharepoint based web application managing some of their business
functionalities and integration with Navision. Following section covers the details of the desired
functionalities:
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User Management from Navision
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A. Document Management
We will have broad categories viz.
a. Confirmed contracts
b. Pipeline
c. Unsuccessful proposals
d. Policy documents
e. Reports
f. Others
These folders would have further sub-categories. All the documents shall have secured access so that
only the authorized user can upload/download the documents.
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B. Fund Raiser – Marketing team or Donor will raise the Fund using the form with following fields
(Donor, Proposed Budget, Title, Funding Opportunity, Submission Deadline, etc.)
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C. Proposal - New proposals Forms to be created with the fields (MOSS No., Fund Raiser, Name of
the donor, Title of the proposal, Duration, Budget in donor currency, Budget in INR, Theme
Sub-Theme, Multi-State Proposal: Yes / No, Name of the States, Name and Number of the Districts,
Team responsible) by the Proposal writing team. After that this proposal will submit using the workflow
to Fund Raiser. After approval of Fund Raiser this Document will submit to Programme. After approval of
Programme this document will push to Finance.
D. SRF – Staff Requisition Form
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E. Time Sheet Form – Manage the timesheet according to FSC Project.
F. Concept Note
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G. Create Partnership Agreement – Partnership Agreement form to be created with the fields (
FSC : User to select from dropdown list (NAV Master Database)
Contract ID : FSC/Dept. Code/User ID/4 digit auto Number/
Name of the partner : user to select from drop down list (NAV Master Database)
Duration : by default system to show FSC duration (as per NAV masters)
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But with the option of editing the same
Budget (in INR) : user to input
After this system to open another screen for inputting disbursement plan
H. FORMs for entering audit disallowance
FSC : choose from drop down list
Title : pick from NAV master
Duration : pick from NAV master
Total Budget in donor currency : pick from NAV master
Total budget in INR : pick from NAV master
Total utilization in donor currency : pick from NAV master
Total utilization in INR : pick from NAV master
(S. No., Cost Centre Issue, Amount in INR, Amount in donor currency)
I. Senior Management
Name : pick from NAV master
Job Title : from NAV master
Photograph : from NAV
J. Board Members
Name : pick from NAV master
Job Title : from NAV master
Photograph : from NAV
Brief profile : to be uploaded
K. Below Docs will be managed through SharePoint with work flow ..
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1. Concept Note
2. Proposal Writing
3. Donor Agreement
4. Partner Agreement
5. Consultancy Agreement
6. Terms of Reference (ToR)
7. SRF or CRF
8. Policy Documents
9. Archiving of vouchers, signed agreements
10. Internal information
11. Progress Reports
12. Time Sheets
13. Grant Overview & Closure sheet
14. Success Ratio Vs. failures and reasons thereof
15. Graphical representation
16. Data: Beneficiary (Direct / Indirect), States, Districts, Blocks & Villages
17. Audit Disallowances
18. Events and important information
19. Tracker or Turnaround time for activities
20. Pipeline grants
21. People responsible for managing grant
22. List of authorized signatories for Bank accounts