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Gantt chart for applications
How to design a Gantt chart that reflects the milestones and deliverables required by the call.
The Gantt chart is your project schedule: what gets done, by whom, and in which months. Evaluators look for a realistic schedule, not an optimistic one, and one that matches the form and the budget.
Start from the milestones
- Fit the milestones to what the call asks for; usually between 3 and 5.
- Each milestone must have at least one verifiable deliverable.
- End with a closing milestone and a final report.
What each activity needs
In CIDIF Gantt-style questions, when the fund configures them that way, start and end months cannot go beyond the duration you entered and the end cannot be earlier than the start.
- Activity name and owner.
- Start month and end month, within the duration you declare for the project.
- Dependency: which activity must finish first.
- Deliverable: what you can show when it is done.
Keep it realistic
- Dependencies must be logical: validation cannot start before the prototype.
- Include a 2 to 3 week buffer between milestones for the unexpected.
- Milestones must fit the project's total timeframe.
Make it match the rest of the application
- Every activity in the schedule must have resources assigned in the budget.
- If a milestone needs a large expense, it must appear in the matching stage.
- The budget figures must match the schedule.
- The schedule should show activities by month and their owners.
Use the template
The Excel Gantt template includes an example with four milestones. Change the start and end month of each activity and the duration and the month grid update on their own.
This guide was prepared with AI assistance from CIDIF content and is pending editorial review. It does not replace the official terms of each call: always check amounts, deadlines and requirements at the fund's source.