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# 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.

### **7. Timetable envisaged for project preparation and completion.**

### **8. Reporting Requirements of the use of The Ash DAO Fund use of grant proceeds\***