The University Grants Office Playbook

A practical field guide for DVCs, grants directors, and research deans — the five systems Kenyan and East African universities use to win NRF, DAAD, Carnegie, and Horizon Europe funding on repeat. Covers proposal review gates, donor calendars, faculty enablement, and the committee checklist we use with partner universities.

• Five systems a grants office needs to ship proposals at scale
• NRF, DAAD, Carnegie, and Horizon Europe application tactics
• A proposal review checklist your committee can use tomorrow
• Sample MOU, budget, and logframe templates for Kenyan contexts