Project Proposal Requirements
1. Brief description of project.
2. Sponsorship, management & technical assistance:
- History and business of sponsors, including financial information.
- Proposed management arrangements and names and curricula vitae of managers.
- Description of technical arrangements and other external assistance (management, production, marketing, finance, etc.).
3. Market & sales:
- Projected production volumes, unit prices, sales objectives, and market share of proposed venture.
- Potential users of products and distribution channels to be used.
- Present sources of supply for products.
- Future competition and possibility that market may be satisfied by substitute products.
- Tariff protection or import restrictions affecting products.
- Critical factors that determine market potential.
4. Technical feasibility, manpower, raw material resources & environment:
- Comments on special technical complexities and need for know-how and special skills.
- Possible suppliers of equipment.
- Availability of manpower and of infrastructure facilities (transport and communications, power, water, etc.).
- Breakdown of projected operating costs by major categories of expenditures.
- Source, cost, and quality of raw material supply and relations with support industries.
- Import restrictions on required raw materials.
- Proposed plant location in relation to suppliers, markets, infrastructure, and manpower.
- Proposed plant size in comparison with other known plants.
- Potential environmental issues and how these issues are addressed.
5. Funding requirements, project financing, and returns:
- Proposed financial structure of venture, indicating expected sources and terms of equity and debt financing.
- Amount of funding being sought from the Ash DAO Fund.
- Projected financial statement, information on profitability, and return on investment.
- Critical factors determining profitability.
6. Government support & regulations:
- Specific government incentives and support available to project.
- Expected contribution of project to economic development.
- Outline of government regulations on exchange controls and conditions of capital entry and repatriation.