DATEX has considerable experience in all aspects of grant management from conducting pre and post award audits to developing disbursement schedules and close outs. Since 1986, DATEX has completed a number of grants related assignments including direct implementation of grants management programs, evaluation of grant-funded projects, and other grants-related activities.

DATEX's experience with grants programs has included both the programmatic and the administrative aspects of grant management. Some of the major programmatic activities included:

• establishing eligibility criteria (based on strategic objectives and desired results)
• designing application review and approval processes with implementation partners
• evaluating grant applications submitted by prospective subgrantees
• assisting subgrantees establish performance monitoring systems and performance monitoring plans to measure field-level impact and results of disbursed subgrants
• design and implementation of program-wide monitoring and evaluation system by strategic objective
• designing and conducting organizational capacity assessments and follow-on training and technical assistance
• assisting grantees in program design/re-design
• preparing Terms of Reference and supervising technical consultants where required for capacity building or programmatic assistance
• establishing workplans and disbursement schedules
• reviewing grantee progress reports, and reconciling grantee progress reports against workplans.

Some of the major elements of administrative grants management included:

• administrative record-keeping for portfolio of grants
• preparation of grantee budgets
• preparing and implementing pre-award audits and post-award compliance audits
• managing bank accounts (book-keeping, account reconciliation, transfers, etc)
• correlating grantees' workplans with funds disbursement schedules
• reconciling grantee financial reports.

Selected Projects:

• Cross Cutting Community Based NGO (CCCB) Program, Honduras
• Strengthening Regional Economies Through NGOs (Strength): USAID/RCSA
• Southern Africa Regional Democracy Fund (SARDF): USAID/RCSA
• PVO/NGO initiatives Project (PIP): USAID/Africa Bureau
• Asset: USAID/Haiti
• Tanzania Voluntary Sector Health Project (VSHP): USAID/Tanzania