Grants, managed like
the donor is watching.

Aegis Global Grants is a specialist grants-management practice for organisations funded by the European Commission, UN agencies and international donors. For over fifteen years our team audited those grants on the donors’ behalf. Now we sit on your side of the table — running your funding so that nothing in it would ever worry an auditor.

15+ years in donor-funded finance
100+ grant assignments delivered
30+ countries, remote and on-site
4 working languages

How we run a grant

One engagement model, four phases. Take the whole lifecycle or bring us in at the phase where your team needs cover — every deliverable is built to stand up to the donor’s own review.

Pre-award

Before you sign, we make sure the money works. Proposal budgets built on the donor’s actual eligibility rules, co-financing that adds up, and partners vetted before they become your risk.

  • Proposal budgeting in the donor’s own format
  • Compliance review of the grant agreement before signature
  • Partner and sub-recipient due diligence

Set-up

The first ninety days decide the final report. We install the controls, procedures and reporting calendar the grant needs — matched to your accounting system, whatever it is.

  • Financial policies and procedures, donor-specific
  • Budget structure and cost-tracking set-up in your ERP
  • Reporting calendar and documentation standards

Implementation

Month by month, we keep the budget honest. Expenditure is checked for eligibility as it happens — not discovered as a problem two years later — and every donor report goes out complete and on time.

  • Budget execution monitoring and forecasting
  • Eligibility checks on expenditure as it is incurred
  • Donor financial reporting — EC, UN, GIZ, USAID formats

Close-out

The grant ends; the file remains. We close the project with a final report the donor can verify line by line, and a documentation file ready for any external review — this year or five years from now.

  • Final financial report and reconciliations
  • Complete supporting-documentation file
  • Lessons memo carried into your next proposal

We were the auditors

Grant management is usually learned from the grantee’s side — by making mistakes and paying for them. Our team learned it from the other side of the table: auditing grant beneficiaries on behalf of the European Commission, UN agencies and GIZ, then managing donor portfolios inside international organisations. We know exactly which line an auditor will question, which document they will ask for, and which finding costs organisations their funding — because for fifteen years, we wrote those findings.

Where that experience comes from
Organisation Role Donor portfolio
BDO — IFI Services, Barcelona Senior grant audit engagements: financial audits, micro assessments, spot checks across Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean European Commission, UN agencies, GIZ
Wildlife Conservation Society, Colombia / USA Full-cycle grants management for the Amazonia, Andes and Orinoquia region — budgets, reporting, pre- and post-award, partner due diligence USAID, IKI, World Bank, European Commission, Chemonics
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia Research-programme finance: budget analysis, donor reporting, sub-grantee monitoring CGIAR, IFAD, FAO, USAID, GIZ-BMZ, IDB, European Commission

Assignments delivered in: Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Poland, Romania, Estonia, Kosovo, Albania, Ireland, Spain, Lithuania, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Cuba, Bolivia, Panama, Guatemala, Jamaica, Guyana, Argentina, USA, Sudan and Costa Rica.

One practice, one discipline

Aegis Global Grants does one thing: the management of donor-funded grants. No general accounting, no side lines — a single discipline, practised to the standard of the auditors we used to be.

And when your grant is audited, we don’t compete with your auditor — we prepare you for them. Your documentation, your eligibility positions and your reporting will already be in the state an auditor expects to find them.

Accepting new engagements · 2026

Talk to us before your next grant

A thirty-minute conversation is enough to tell you where your current set-up would concern a donor — no commitment, no report to buy.

Book an intro call

or write to contact@aegisglobalgrants.com