Why INFFER?

Attracting Funds

INFFER™ assists organisations that manage natural resources and the environment to attract more funds to their organisations, achieve better results on the ground and generate new levels of community cooperation on projects. Here are several ways that it can help organisations that are seeking funding:

Prioritisation

Environmental problems are much larger than the budgets available for addressing them. The resulting need to be able to prioritise with confidence is vital, but very challenging. INFFER eases the task and provides confidence in the results.

INFFER can be used to establish priorities for internal funds or to prepare proposals for external funds. The process could be undertaken each year to assist with the development of action plans, or less frequently, such as to develop an overall investment plan or strategy for the region. Government funding priorities tend to change depending on financial, political and environmental contexts. INFFER users can develop a stock of of ‘ready to go’ projects, allowing rapid responses to funding opportunities with short time frames.

Using existing knowledge

Millions of dollars are invested into research each year, but decision makers often don’t make the fullest or best use of the available information. INFFER supports integration of the many different sorts of relevant information. Its structured process provides guidance on which information is needed, and how it should influence decisions. It can accommodate the best available information, whether that be from the peer-reviewed research literature, or an enthusiastic local expert.

Getting an edge on competitors

INFFER delivers clear, robust project proposals, with ‘SMART’ goals and actions to deliver them. These proposals are more likely to be funded than others that are not so well reasoned or substantiated.

Devolving funds

INFFER helps organisations who provide funding, including governments and philanthropic organisations, by providing a transparent process for the allocation of funds, simplifying decision making processes, reducing the political pressure that can be associated with delegation of funds and providing reassurance that funds have been well spent and will achieve real change on the ground.

Cost-effectiveness

It is a sad reality that many publicly funded projects do not achieve outcomes cost effectively. INFFER helps assure investors that what they are investing in will deliver tangible results that are worth the investment; that the tools and technical capacity needed to attain those results are available to the project; and that the people who need to come on board to make it happen will be there when the time comes for action.

Defensible decisions

INFFER gives decision makers the ability to assess one project against another, comparing aspects such as value for money, degrees of confidence in technical information and the likelihood of achieving stated goals. It takes the guess work out of resource allocation and can greatly improve the confidence in decisions made.

INFFER helps to ensure scarce resources are spent in the most effective manner.