Grants Management Manual

A consulting-deliverable skill: it produces a standalone Grants / Donor-Funds Management Manual, not a business-plan section and not a grant proposal. It owns the document's structure, the grant-lifecycle workflow, the parameter-setting, the multi-currency flexing logic, and the East African framing — and it pulls every accounting treatment, eligibility rule, and compliance touchpoint from the finance engine at chwezi-accounting-doctrine.

Use When

• A client needs a Grants Management Manual, Donor-Funds Management Manual, Grant Accounting & Compliance Manual, sub-granting policy, or a fund-accounting / donor-reporting procedures document.
• Responding to an RFP/EOI for "development of a grants / donor-funds management manual."
• Reviewing, gap-auditing, or updating an existing grants manual against current standards and donor terms.

Do Not Use When

• Writing a grant proposal or concept note — use pipeline/11b-grant-proposal. That skill wins funding; this manual governs how received funds are managed.
• The grants chapter is one part of a broader finance manual — use advisory-deliverables/finance-policy-and-manual (grants is one chapter there; this skill is the full standalone manual).
• Answering a single grant-accounting question — go straight to the relevant finance-engine SKILL.md.

Required Inputs

Entity type (NGO/CSO, donor-funded project, grant-receiving public body); legal form, registration (URSB/NGO Bureau), and funding model (single-donor, multi-donor, sub-granting up- or down-stream); the donor portfolio and each donor's binding rules (World Bank, USAID ADS, EU/GIZ, AfDB, UN/UNDP, bilateral); reporting framework (IFRS for SMEs or full IFRS / IAS 20); functional currency and grant currencies; whether sub-granting is in scope; existing manual/policies; board and committee structure; accounting software and chart of accounts in use; jurisdiction (default Uganda); named approver/owner. Never fabricate these — ask.