In today’s development cooperation landscape, resources are under pressure. Donor budgets are tightening, and competition for funding is sharper than ever. That means that a strong proposal needs more than a compelling story — it also needs a budget that inspires confidence: accurate, realistic, transparent, and fully aligned with donor requirements.
Yet, we notice that in the process many organisations face a familiar challenge: with deadlines approaching the technical teams focus on the narrative, the result chain and the negotiations with project partners. With capacity of finance staff stretched, it is challenging to guarantee the quality needed for the budget. Especially last minute changes easily lead to stress, inefficiencies, errors, or worse: missed opportunities or rejected proposals.
At Fair & Sustainable Consulting, we provide tailored budget development support to strengthen your proposal teams when capacity is limited.
Within Fair & Sustainable Consulting our colleague Nick Peacock specialises in:
* Designing clear, error-free budgets that meet donor guidelines.
* Structuring, reviewing, and consolidating large volumes of financial data.
* Working seamlessly with diverse teams and adapting to different workflows.
* Supporting complex, multi-country consortium proposals.
With years of experience working alongside Dutch-headquartered international development organisations, like Cordaid, ICCO, Oxfam Novib, Woord en Daad …. Nick understands both the requirements of the international funding landscape (like EU, Netherlands Government, SHO, Danida, NORAD, SIDA and various Foundations) and the needs of national implementing partners.
If your organisation could use experienced support in project budgeting, let’s connect.
We’ll be glad to help strengthen your next proposal and turn great ideas into funded projects.
Please contact:
Fair & Sustainable Consulting: netherlands@fairandsustainable.org
Nick Peacock: nick.peacock@fairandsustainable.org
