GFGP Standard & Obtaining the Standard
The GFGP standard contains over 300
clauses relating to best practice in financial management, human resources,
procurement and governance of grant awards.
It is essential for users of the standard to understand that it is structured
into four cumulative tiers of Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. This
means that for an organization to be compliant to the Silver Tier they must
meet all the requirements of both the Bronze AND Silver Tiers. Hence, for Gold
compliance they must meet all the requirements of Bronze, Silver AND Gold Tiers
of the standard, and to be compliant at the Platinum Tier they need to meet the
requirements of all the clauses in the standard.
The purpose of having four tiers in
the standard is to provide a tier which accommodates the requirements of
organizations of different sizes and complexity receiving awards of differing
size and complexity. This can better illustrated with the following examples: -
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Descriptor
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Bronze Tier
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Silver Tier
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Gold Tier
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Platinum Tier
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Award Size
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$
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$$
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$$
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$$$$
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Organizational Type
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CBO’s /
CSO’s
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NGO’s
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Larger
NGO’s / INGO’s
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Global
NGO’s
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Activities
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Regional
/ County Level
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Across
one or more countries or states
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Continental
/ International
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Global
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Sub Awarding
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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The GFGP Standard is now available in English,
French, Spanish and Portuguese.The copyright of the GFGP standard is assigned by the African Academy of Sciences(AAS) to the African
Organization for Standardization (ARSO) and copies of the standard can be
downloaded from the web sites of the National Standards Bodies which have
adopted the standard, namely: -
As part of the compliance process to
become certified to GFGP, organizations will need to
demonstrate to the auditors they have procured a copy of the GFGP standard.
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