Pre-Announcement Grant Funding Recommendation

Detects ministerial briefing notes or departmental submissions recommending specific grant funding decisions before public announcement.

Type

keyword_proximity

Engine

universal

Confidence

high

Confidence justification

High confidence: the combination of recommendation language with grant funding context and pre-announcement markers is highly specific to pre-decisional funding documents. Published grant outcomes are excluded.

Jurisdictions

au

Regulations

Financial Accountability Act 2009 (Qld)

Frameworks

QGISCF

Data categories

financial, government

Scope

wide

Risk rating

8

Corroborative evidence keywords

recommend, recommendation, submission, brief, briefing note, approval, grant, funding, program, initiative, Minister, Director-General, decision, PROTECTED, not for release, pre-announcement, decision pending, financial, fiscal, monetary (+27 more)

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

• PROTECTED — Briefing Note for the Minister. Subject: Grant Funding Recommendations — Community Recovery Program Round 2. Recommendation: That the Minister approve funding of $8.4M across 23 applicants as listed in Attachment A. Decision pending — not for release until ministerial announcement. — Ministerial brief with grant funding recommendations
• Submission to Director-General. Pre-announcement. Recommendation: Approve the attached grant funding allocations for the Regional Innovation Fund ($12.6M total). 15 successful applicants recommended from 89 applications. PROTECTED — decision pending. — DG submission with pre-announcement grant recommendations

Should not match

• Media Release: Minister announces $8.4M in Community Recovery grants. Twenty-three organisations across Queensland will receive funding under Round 2. — Post-announcement media release — public document
• Grant Application Form — Community Recovery Program. Applicants must demonstrate financial viability and community benefit to be recommended for funding. — Public grant application form describing process

Known false positives

• Post-announcement media releases and grant outcome notifications Mitigation: Exclude documents containing 'media release', 'announces', 'congratulations', 'successful applicants' without pre-announcement markers
• Grant program guidelines and application forms Mitigation: Exclude documents containing 'application form', 'how to apply', 'eligibility criteria', 'guidelines'