Business Plan for Funding Applications
Development finance institutions and banks assess a plan against criteria they publish and rarely explain: viability, affordability of the repayment, security, the applicant's own contribution, job creation and developmental impact. This plan is written to those criteria, with the financial projections structured the way a credit committee reads them and the developmental impact stated where it is scored rather than buried.
- Written to the criteria development finance institutions and banks assess
- Three-year financial projections structured for a credit committee
- Repayment affordability and the applicant contribution stated explicitly
- Job creation and developmental impact written where funders score it
- Use-of-funds breakdown tied to the amount requested
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Frequently asked questions
- Which funders is this written for?
- Development finance institutions and commercial lenders - SEDFA, the NEF, the IDC, provincial agencies and the banks. They assess viability, repayment affordability, security, your own contribution, and job creation. The plan is structured to those criteria.
- Will this get my application approved?
- No plan can promise that. Funders decline for reasons a document cannot fix: no own contribution, no security, or a sector they are not lending into. What this removes is the reason they decline most often, which is a plan that does not answer what they assess.
- Do you do the financial projections?
- Yes - three years, structured the way a credit committee reads them, built from the figures you supply. They are your numbers presented properly, not invented ones, and you must verify them before submitting.
- What if I am pre-revenue?
- That is common and not a blocker. Leave current revenue blank. The plan then leans on the market evidence, your own contribution and the use-of-funds breakdown, which is what funders assess for a pre-revenue applicant.