Donor Grants and Cost Recovery

Leaders in donor compliance

Humentum is widely recognized as a leader in NGO finance, grant management, and donor compliance with USAID, FCDO, and the EC. We have offered customized consultancy projects and trainings to strengthen organizational, team, and individual capacities in these areas for over 20 years – first as our legacy organizations, and then as Humentum.

We have also built significant experience providing support to donors and organizations by strengthening the organizational management capacity of their grant recipients to comply with donor requirements. We provide these services both remotely and locally across the world through our network of 120 expert consultants.

We can offer your organization:

 A review and revision of current finance, administration, cost recovery, procurement, grant and contract management, and sub-grants management policies to make them fit-for-purpose and aligned with the main key donor requirements.

 Indirect cost recovery optimization by analyzing current calculation methodology including an organization’s business model, its cost structure, and its revenue streams. We assess our client’s definitions of direct costs and indirect costs (including definitions of similar functions at both the field and headquarters (HQ) levels) and analyze what presently constitute direct project costs and project support costs in the client’s budgeting.

Review of indirect cost recovery and NICRA or DFAT agreed rates with recommendations for clients on optimizing their indirect cost rate recovery and any negotiated rates such as NICRA with the US Department of State moving forward.

 Advisory Support with NICRA application submissions to the United States Government (USG)

Advisory support in responding to queries from USG regarding a negotiated NICRA to ensure that the current treatment of costs is correct and/or to be able to justify such treatment to the USG.