CEF Operational Framework and Guidelines Format Guide

1. Summary
   

2. Background

   • Beneficiaries and the current nature of their access to resources

   • Issues and challenges to be addressed

   • Features of the social, economic, physical and political environment, including vested interests that need to be considered

   • Government and relevant sector policy(ies)

   • Other related ongoing or planned interventions, the organizations involved and the documentation available

   • Participation process. Beneficiaries and parties involved, their roles and responsibilities (targeting)
     

3. Intervention

• Overall objectives

• Project purpose

• Primary programme intervention

• Activities and logical framework of their relationship to the challenges to be addressed

• Expected outcomes and indicators for measuring results
  

4. Assumptions

• What are the assumptions behind the design of the proposal?

• What opportunities suggest that success can be achieved at this time?

• What are the strengths of the proposal?

• What weakness might arise and need to be overcome? How?

• What actions, organizations, vested interests or policies could pose a threat to achieving the proposed outcomes?
  

5. Implementation

• Organization, methodology and implementation procedures

• Timetable

• Itemized costing

• Financing plan (including cofinancing arrangements), with an explanation of partner contributions in cash and kind to the project

• Accompanying measures taken by the government

• Special conditions
  

6. Factors ensuring sustainability

• Policy support

• Appropriate technology

• Environmental sustainability

• Socio-cultural aspects including gender and prevailing issues affecting the target population

• Institutional and management capacity

• Economic and financial analysis

• Potential for replication, scaling up and mainstreaming
  

7. Monitoring, evaluation, lessons learned and generation of knowledge

• Monitoring plan, schedule and indicators for measuring results and impact

• Self-monitoring by the community and peer monitoring

• Method for collecting and analysing experience and lessons learned

• Plan for sharing the knowledge generated by the project with the Land Coalition and its partners worldwide
  

8. Annexes

• Map

• Statutes of the organization

• Organizational profile

• Support letters from appropriate stakeholders of the country/region/community in which the project will be implemented