Donor-funded microenterprise grant interview practice
A small-enterprise grant interview on household livelihood gains, practical business growth, safeguarding funds and reporting results. Practise the 5 questions selection panels ask with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- 15 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the award
A donor-funded microenterprise grant interview assesses a small business plan alongside the livelihood benefit it is meant to create. Reviewers want a modest, workable budget, knowledge of local customers, resilience to operating disruptions and reliable records. Check the official grant information for the current permitted costs, selection evidence and reporting expectations.
How to prepare
- Define the income, resilience or local opportunity that the enterprise can realistically improve.
- Check your prices and costs against recent trading experience or careful local market research.
- Reduce the budget to the inputs that directly remove the most important business constraint.
- Prepare alternatives for unreliable power, transport delays, supplier changes or seasonal demand.
- Read the official grant guidance and plan records that meet its current monitoring requirements.
Common mistakes
- Describing community need without showing that the enterprise can attract paying customers.
- Building the budget around desirable equipment instead of the business's binding constraint.
- Making broad impact claims that cannot be checked through simple records.
- Ignoring how the enterprise will keep operating once grant support ends.
What to expect
A real selection interview
5 questions the way selection panels ask, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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