Funding Readiness Framework (ARQ C1) Week 5 Update

This is the fifth update (Week #5) as part of our quest to design and build a funding readiness framework. See initial proposal, week #1, week #2, week #3, and week #4 updates here.

What we planned to do

  • Review criteria and statements for necessary changes

  • Run a second round of testing with help from the projects themselves and other external resources like Karma GAP

What we did

  • Made a few wording changes to the project and evaluator statements

  • Condensed two of the team questions into one

  • Got confirmation from 2 ReFi projects that they would help us test the framework

  • Reached out to two evaluators for feedback on the framework

What we learned

  • We should’ve started the process of reaching out to projects and evaluators earlier

Challenges encountered

  • Projects/people are understandably busy, so it’s taking longer than expected to get results

Next steps

  • Review project submissions and evaluator feedback

  • Send project submission to evaluators to test the mechanics

  • Make changes to the framework as per feedback

  • Submit a final working version of the framework