Reference
Glossary
The words Civora uses, in plain language.
- Approval policy
- The rule that decides who approves a request: by amount, type, grant and department, as a chain of steps.
- Approvals inbox
- One place for everything waiting on your decision, from every department.
- Budget line
- Money set aside for one grant, one project and one budget category. Requests, bills and salaries are charged to budget lines.
- Committed
- Money promised but not yet paid: approved requests and purchase orders.
- Donor rule
- A condition from a grant agreement that Civora checks when money is spent, such as an ineligible category or an approval threshold.
- Field report
- A report of work done in the field, from a template, with evidence; reviewed by a supervisor and validated by M&E.
- Fund (restricted / unrestricted)
- Money tied to a grant's purpose is restricted; everything else is unrestricted. Every ledger line says which fund it belongs to.
- Funding split
- How a person's salary is shared across grant budget lines.
- Indicator
- A measure of a result (for example households with a resilience plan), with a definition, baseline and targets.
- Lock date
- Nothing can be posted in the books on or before it; used to close a month.
- Maker-checker
- The person who prepares a bill or payroll cannot approve it.
- Pipeline
- Funding opportunities not yet decided, by stage, each with a chance of success.
- Report pack
- Everything a donor report needs for a grant and period, built from approved records; frozen when submitted.
- Three-way match
- A supplier is paid only for what was ordered and received.
- Tranche
- One instalment a donor pays under a grant, often released when a report is accepted.
- Validation
- M&E's check that a field report's figures are sound, after which they count towards indicators.
- Variance
- How far a result is from its target; beyond the threshold it needs a written explanation.
- Workspace
- A department's own area in Civora, with its own menu beside the main sidebar.