Appendix E: Sources and Rule Verification¶

This appendix tells your club where to check the Rotary Foundation's rules, which change, then lists the book's main sources chapter by chapter, so you can go back to the original.

Checking the Rotary Foundation's rules¶

Every Foundation rule cited in this book was read in the official documents in force on October 2, 2026. Each of these documents makes the same point: the Foundation can change them at any time. A figure in this book is therefore a starting point, never a guarantee.

The documents read, and their version¶

Document	Version read	What it governs	Chapters
Terms and Conditions for Rotary Foundation Global Grants	July 2026	global grants: conditions, funding, prohibitions, reports, microcredit	4 to 15
Terms and Conditions for Rotary Foundation District Grants	July 2026	district grants	6, 10, 13
Terms and Conditions for Rotary Foundation Disaster Response Grants	July 2026	disaster response grants	2, 4, 10, 13
The Rotary Foundation Code of Policies	October 2026	disaster policy, qualification, sustainability, matching, Programs of Scale	2, 10, 11, 13, 14
Rotary Code of Policies	October 2026	Rotary Action Groups	2, 10, 11
Areas of Focus Policy Statements	April 2024	community economic development area of focus	6, 8, 10, 15
Community Economic Development Guidelines Global Grant Funding	April 2024	requirements for economic projects	3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15
A Guide to Global Grants	2025 edition	preparation advice, resources	10, 11
Global Grant Monitoring and Evaluation Plan Supplement	April 2015	monitoring, standard measures	13
Six Steps to Sustainability	fact sheet, PDF of March 2025	six sustainability principles	10, 14
Conducting Community Assessments	July 2024	community needs assessment	3, 12
District Qualification Memorandum of Understanding	in force as of July 1, 2024	district qualification, record keeping	11

Two remarks. The monitoring supplement dates from 2015, but it is the version the Rotary website was still serving in October 2026. And where the Foundation Code, the Guide to Global Grants and the Terms and Conditions differ, this book goes with the Terms and Conditions: Chapter 10 gives two examples (construction, the 10% caps). Ask your regional grants officer to confirm.

Where to find them¶

Foundation documents are published on My Rotary (my.rotary.org), the Rotary members' site. Global grant applications are made online, in the My Rotary Grant Center; check there as well that the monitoring supplement has not been replaced (Chapter 13).

As of October 2, 2026, the following addresses led directly to the official document:

Global grant Terms and Conditions: https://my.rotary.org/en/document/terms-and-conditions-rotary-foundation-global-grants
District grant Terms and Conditions: https://my.rotary.org/en/document/terms-and-conditions-rotary-foundation-district-grants
Disaster response grant Terms and Conditions: https://my.rotary.org/en/document/terms-and-conditions-rotary-disaster-response-grants
Foundation Code: https://my.rotary.org/en/document/rotary-foundation-code-policies
Rotary Code: https://my.rotary.org/en/document/rotary-code-policies
Areas of focus policy statements: https://my.rotary.org/en/document/areas-focus-policy-statements
CED guidelines: https://my.rotary.org/en/document/community-economic-development-guidelines-global-grant-funding
Guide to Global Grants: https://my.rotary.org/en/document/guide-global-grants
Monitoring and evaluation supplement: https://my.rotary.org/en/document/global-grant-monitoring-and-evaluation-plan-supplement
Six Steps to Sustainability: https://my.rotary.org/en/document/six-steps-sustainability
Conducting Community Assessments: https://my.rotary.org/en/document/community-assessment-tools
District qualification memorandum: https://my.rotary.org/en/document/district-qualification-memorandum-understanding

If an address no longer works, search for the exact title in the My Rotary document library.

Whom to ask¶

The district Rotary Foundation committee chair (DRFC), in the first week: the district's qualification, overdue reports, available district funds, whether this year's district grant is already committed (Chapters 10 and 11).
The regional grants officer, on Rotary staff: the 2025 Guide to Global Grants states that this officer can assess whether an idea is eligible before you start the application. This is the person this book sends you to for the questions the documents do not settle (see below).
A member of the Cadre of Technical Advisers who specializes in community economic development, to review the project design.
The RAGCED action group and the district international service chair, whom the April 2024 CED guidelines list, along with the two previous contacts, among the resources to consult "early during your planning."

The Guide to Global Grants also lists, among Rotary's forms of support, the Service Project Center, the district Rotary Foundation committee and the district resource network.

The numerical rules cited in this book¶

The following tables gather the book's numerical rules, with the article that sets each one. They hold for the versions shown; check them before any submission.

Disaster response grant (Terms and Conditions, July 2026)

Rule	Value	Article	Chapters
Disasters covered	natural, occurring within the previous six months	p. 1	2, 4, 10
Amount	up to $25,000, to the districts in the affected area	5.B	4, 10
Applying committee	at least three Rotarians, including governor and DRFC	3.A	10
Contingency and administration	at most 20% and 3%	3.K, 3.L	10
Report	within six months of receiving payment	7.C	4, 10, 13

Large-scale disaster (Foundation Code, October 2026): disaster response grants of up to $50,000, at most two open per affected district for one year, by decision of the chair of the Trustees (art. 21.010); the disaster must meet three of the following four criteria, none of them mandatory: be a natural disaster, affect at least one million people, receive global media coverage, require outside assistance because the economic capacity of the affected area is not enough for stabilization and short-term relief (art. 33.120.1.2); Chapter 10.

District grant (Terms and Conditions, July 2026, and Foundation Code)

Rule	Value	Article	Chapters
Funding	up to 50% of the SHARE allocation, one per Rotary year	6.A, 6.B; Code 33.020.1	10
Application	by May 15 at the latest	3.A	10
Payment conditions	met before May 31	7.F	10
Final report	12 months after payment, or 2 months after full use if sooner	8.H	10, 13
End of activities	within 24 months of the transfer of funds	8.J	10
Microcredit	registered MFI, active for at least three years	1.B.11	6, 10

Global grant (Terms and Conditions, July 2026)

Rule	Value	Article	Chapters
Budget and contribution	budget of at least $30,000; World Fund up to 400,000	6.A	10
Matching	80% of the district funds committed	6.C; Code 33.050.2.3	10
Cash	not matched; 5% surcharge if paid to the Foundation	6.F, 6.H	10
Foreign share	at least 15% of contributions from outside the project country	6.J	10, 11
Capped items	contingency, project management, measuring results: 10% each	3.I, 3.J, 3.K	10, 13
Grant committee	three members per primary sponsor club	3.B	11
Review levels	thresholds of 50,000 and $200,000 of World Fund contribution	3.Q	10
Payment in installments	above $50,000 of World Fund contribution	7.I	10
Progress reports	within 12 months of the first payment, then within 12 months of acceptance of the previous report	8.J	10, 13
Final report	within 2 months of the end of activities	8.K	10, 13
Record keeping	at least five years	8.H	10, 13
Cancellation deadlines	12 months to submit, 6 to approve, 6 to pay, 12 to start	9.A to 9.D	10
Serious misconduct	exclusion from grants for up to five years	8.I	11
Microcredit	MFI of at least three years; capital lent twice over 18 months	11.B, 11.E	6, 10
Microcredit interest rate	at most the lower of the national average minus 10 points and 36%	11.G	6

Other documents

Rule	Value	Document	Chapters
Programs of Scale	$2 million a year, program of 3 to 5 years	Foundation Code, 33.140	10
Partner contribution	at least $500,000 in cash	Foundation Code, 33.140	10
DRFC term	three years	Foundation Code, 25.010.4	11
Monitoring results	"ideally for three or more years"	Foundation Code, 33.070	13, 14
Funds held by an action group	up to $100,000 per project	Rotary Code, 42.020.14	10, 11
Action group activity	at least three multiclub or district projects a year	Rotary Code, 42.020.6	11
Sustainability plan	over two to four years	CED guidelines, p. 4	10, 14
Major equipment	financial plan over three to five years	CED guidelines, p. 7	7, 10
Preparedness project	emergencies of the last three to five years	CED guidelines, p. 15	15
Monitoring plan	seven steps; six economic standard measures	Monitoring supplement, April 2015	13

What the documents do not settle¶

The documents read do not cover everything. The book refers the first four points to the DRFC or the regional grants officer, the last to RAGCED:

the line between repair, renovation and reconstruction, since new construction is excluded from global grants (Chapters 9 and 10);
the acceptable form of a beneficiary contribution, since no funds may be collected from beneficiaries (Chapters 5 and 10);
how to fit grants to small businesses into a Foundation grant (Chapter 6);
how the three-year SHARE cycle mentioned in the Code works, and so the year in which donations become available (Chapter 10);
the economic recovery mandate that the RAGCED chair attributes to the Foundation, known only through his correspondence (Chapters 2 and 11).

Outdated figures still in circulation¶

Old figures still circulate, even in the disaster guide: a disaster response grant report every twelve months (May 2019 version; six months today); records kept for seven years (at least five today); district funds matched one for one, or 100% for district funds and 50% for cash (80% of district funds today, and cash is not matched). Date every figure in your file, and check it against the version in force.

Sources by chapter¶

The Foundation documents are listed above. Addresses for the other sources are not reproduced: they change, and every title can be found by searching for it.

Introduction¶

Field report on the agricultural labor market in the Southeast (Haiti), EMMA analysis, April 12, 2010 (single source, a consultant's observation).
Global Cluster for Early Recovery, Guidance Note on Inter-Cluster Early Recovery, 2016.
United Nations General Assembly, report A/71/644 on terminology relating to disaster risk reduction, 2016, English and French versions.
Correspondence from the RAGCED chair, September 2026 (non-public source).

Chapter 1: Why the Economy Decides Recovery¶

Go Shimada, "A Quantitative Study of Social Capital in the Tertiary Sector of Kobe," JICA Research Institute, 2014.
B. Orr, Kobe: Disaster Response and Adaptation, case study, UN-Habitat, 2007.
J. R. Stevenson et al., "Preliminary observations of the impacts the 22 February Christchurch earthquake had on organisations and the economy," 2011.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Puerto Rico Small Businesses and the 2017 Hurricanes, 2018.
J. P. LeSage et al., "Do what the neighbours do," Significance, 2011; N. S. N. Lam et al., "Predictors of Business Return in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina," PLoS ONE, 2012.
Government of Haiti, PDNA for the 2010 earthquake; Presidency of Türkiye, Türkiye Earthquakes Recovery and Reconstruction Assessment, 2023.
M. A. Turner et al., Recovering But Not Recovered: Gulf Coast Businesses Three Years Later, 2008.

Chapter 2: The Four Phases and Who Does What¶

Global Shelter Cluster, Shelter Projects 2017-2018, case study A.18, Nepal.
IASC CWGER, Guidance Note on Early Recovery, 2008; Global Cluster for Early Recovery, 2016 note.
UNDP, Guidance Note: Building Resilience through Livelihoods and Economic Recovery, 2022; Emergency Employment and Enterprise Recovery, 2013.
C. Bugnion de Moreta and L. Melikyan, thematic evaluation of UNDP economic recovery programs 2009-2012, 2014.
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030; report A/71/644.
Multi Donor Fund for Aceh and Nias, Progress Report IV, December 2007.

Chapter 3: Assessing the Economic Damage¶

Economic Developers Alberta, Community Toolkit for Economic Recovery and Resiliency, 2019 (Joplin).
European Union, United Nations Development Group and World Bank, Post-Disaster Needs Assessments Guidelines, volumes A (2013) and B; R. J. Jovel and M. Mudahar, Damage, Loss and Needs Assessment Guidance Notes, volume 2, World Bank, 2010.
Government of Nepal, Post Disaster Needs Assessment, 2015; PDNA for Grenada after Hurricane Beryl, 2024.
M. Albu, The Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis Toolkit, 2010; ICRC and IFRC, Rapid Assessment for Markets, 2014; IASC, MIRA, 2015; H. Juillard and E. Sloane, Pre-Crisis Market Analysis, 2016.
IFRC, IFRC Guidelines for Livelihoods Programming, 2010.
The Asia Foundation, Aid and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Nepal, 2017.

Chapter 4: From Relief to Recovery, When and How¶

Japan Fisheries Association, ISARIBI no. 70, August 2011 (Shiogama).
ICRC and IFRC, Market Analysis Guidance, 2014; IFRC and ICRC, Guidelines for Cash Transfer Programming, 2007.
Emergency Livelihoods Cluster Iraq, Cash for Work Standard Operating Procedures, 2022.
ILO, Local Economic Recovery in Post-Conflict: Guidelines, 2010.
SEEP Network, Minimum Economic Recovery Standards, third edition, 2017.
C. M. Reyes, J. R. G. Albert and C. C. M. Reyes, PIDS Discussion Paper 2018-04 (Tacloban).

Chapter 5: Do No Harm After a Disaster¶

FAO, Colombo statement of June 21, 2005; FAO, Committee on Fisheries, COFI/2007/3, 2006; FAO, RAP Publication 2007/19.
IRIN, "Sri Lanka: Fishing industry still lacks large tonnage boats," June 21, 2007 (press, to be rechecked).
J. Telford, J. Cosgrave and R. Houghton, Joint Evaluation of the International Response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami: Synthesis Report, 2006.
SEEP Network, MERS, 2017; Sphere Association, The Sphere Handbook, 2018; CDA, The Do No Harm Handbook, 2004.
C. Brady, An Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis Study: Changing Responses to the Haiti Earthquake, 2012.
CALP Network, The State of the World's Cash 2023; High Level Panel on Humanitarian Cash Transfers, Doing Cash Differently, 2015.
D. Egger et al., General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya, NBER, 2019; L. Becchetti, S. Castriota and P. Conzo, CSEF Working Paper 324, 2012.
MARKit: Price Monitoring, Analysis and Response Kit, 2015.

Chapter 6: Money: Savings, Credit, and Grants After the Shock¶

Fonkoze, 2010 Social Performance Report, 2011; Grameen Foundation and Fonkoze, case study, 2011.
R. T. Chua and A. O. Miehlbradt, Rapid Onset Natural Disasters briefs, Microenterprise Best Practices, 1999; W. Brown and G. Nagarajan, Bangladeshi Experience in Adapting Financial Services to Cope with Floods, 2000.
CGAP, Soutenir les activités de microfinance en Asie après le tsunami (Supporting microfinance activities in Asia after the tsunami), February 2005.
E. Ersenkal, Field Manual: Supporting Microfinance through Grants in Post-Crisis Settings, DAI, 2007.
ADB and VisionFund, Disaster-Resilient Microfinance, 2016; N. H. Dhakal et al., Microfinance for Disaster Recovery: Lessons from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, ADB, 2019.
S. de Mel, D. McKenzie and C. Woodruff, Enterprise Recovery Following Natural Disasters, World Bank, 2010; H. Berkel, P. Fisker and F. Tarp, WIDER Working Paper 2021/87.
H. D. Seibel, Post-Tsunami Microfinance in Aceh, 2008.
D. Egger et al., General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya, NBER, 2019; C. Lehmann and D. Masterson, Emergency Economies: The Impact of Cash Assistance in Lebanon, International Rescue Committee, 2014.

Chapter 7: Skills: Paid Work, Training, and Reconstruction Trades¶

JICA et al., final report of the TPIS-ERP project, Nepal, 2019; Shelter Projects 2017-2018, A.18.
Government of Nepal, PDNA, volume B, 2015; PDNA, volume B, employment.
UNDP, Emergency Employment and Enterprise Recovery, 2013; UNDP Haiti, debris management guides, 2013.
ILO, final evaluation of the Leyte project after Haiyan, 2015.
World Bank, Learning from Megadisasters, 2014.
A. K. Jha et al., Safer Homes, Stronger Communities, World Bank, 2010; ADB, completion report for technical assistance 4943 in Pakistan.
ILO, Recommendation No. 205; ILO and UNDP, Employment, Livelihoods and Social Protection: Guide for Recovery Implementation, 2021.
Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland, April-May 2020 magazine, and District 7080 web page (Khokana).

Chapter 8: Markets: Agriculture, Value Chains, and Cooperatives¶

Reconstruction Agency (Japan), Great East Japan Earthquake Lessons Learned, sheets 44 and 47.
FAO, The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security 2023.
FAO, Seeds in Emergencies: A Technical Handbook, 2010; CRS, ICRISAT and ODI, Seed Vouchers and Fairs, 2002.
GLOW Consultants for Save the Children, final evaluation of the Dadu project, 2024.
UNDP, Agriculture Guide for Recovery Implementation; FAO, notes on the tsunami (2007) and on Haiyan (2014).
J. Birchall and L. Hammond Ketilson, Resilience of the Cooperative Business Model in Times of Crisis, ILO, 2009; J. Birchall, Resilience in a Downturn, ILO, 2013.
Aquaculture Stewardship Council, page on Miyagi oyster farming (promotional source).

Chapter 9: Places: Shops, Marketplaces, and Local Development¶

Cityscape, "2000 days: The Re:START story," 2020; Government of New Zealand, press release of March 6, 2014.
ILO and UNDP, 2021 guide; ILO, Local Economic Recovery in Post-Conflict, 2010.
Near East Foundation, rapid assessment after the Beirut port explosion, August 2020.
CORE and YSYD, Learning Brief: Empowering Communities, April 2024.
J. M. McKnight, "Iron Market," Architectural Record, 2012.
UNNATI, Owner Driven Housing Process, 2006; J. D. Barenstein, Housing reconstruction in post-earthquake Gujarat, ODI, 2006.

Chapter 10: Funding the Recovery¶

Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland, "Out of disaster comes hope," August-September 2021 magazine (Beirut).
The three Terms and Conditions, the Foundation Code, the Rotary Code, the CED policy statement and guidelines, the Guide to Global Grants, Six Steps to Sustainability (see above); for comparison, the May 2019 Terms and Conditions for disaster response grants.
District 7080 web page (Khokana); District 2140 web page (Türkiye).
N. Wallace, "Many Haitians Use Cash Grants to Restart Businesses," The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 2010.
CHS Alliance, Groupe URD and Sphere, Core Humanitarian Standard, 2024 edition.

Chapter 11: The Club, the District, and the Action Groups¶

District 2140 web page (Belgium), February 28, 2023, relaying messages from the Turkish districts.
District 3292, Nepal Earthquake Relief, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Program, Executive Summary, August 2015.
Foundation Code, Rotary Code, global grant Terms and Conditions, qualification memorandum (see above).
DNA-RAG and RAGCED websites; RAGCED bylaws, July 2026.
Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland, April-May 2019 magazine (Anilao).

Chapter 12: Working with Humanitarian Actors¶

Disasters Emergency Committee and Humanitarian Coalition, Philippines Typhoon Haiyan Response Review, April 2014 (pages 4, 7, 10, and 14 to 17 of the body of the report).
MERS, core standard 2; IASC CWGER, 2008; Global Cluster for Early Recovery, 2016.
OCHA, IM Toolbox, "Who does What Where (3W)" page.
CHS Alliance, Groupe URD and Sphere, Core Humanitarian Standard, 2024 edition.
Sri Lanka Ministry of Fisheries, fisheries reconstruction strategy, April 2006.
Global grant Terms and Conditions (section 4, cooperating organizations), CED guidelines, Conducting Community Assessments (see above).

Chapter 13: Monitoring and Proving Results¶

CORE and YSYD, Learning Brief, April 2024 (Hassa).
MERS, 2017; CHS, 2024; IFRC, Guidelines for Livelihoods Programming, 2010.
Center of Resources for Innovation and Development, University of San Agustin, Typhoon Haiyan Response Program: Summative Evaluation Report (CARE Philippines), 2017.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2018; M. A. Turner et al., 2008; N. S. N. Lam et al., 2012.
Foundation monitoring and evaluation supplement, 2015; Terms and Conditions, July 2026.
N. H. Dhakal et al., Microfinance for Disaster Recovery: Lessons from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, ADB, 2019.
Fonkoze, 2010 Social Performance Report, 2011; Grameen Foundation and Fonkoze, case study, 2011.
A. Gardner, K. Greenblott and E. Joubert, What We Know About Exit Strategies, C-SAFE, 2005.

Chapter 14: Exiting and Handing Over¶

Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland, "Teach a man to fish," April-May 2019 magazine (Anilao; single source).
A. Gardner, K. Greenblott and E. Joubert, What We Know About Exit Strategies, C-SAFE, 2005.
Multi Donor Fund for Aceh and Nias, December 2007; Cityscape, 2020.
ILO, evaluation of the Leyte project, 2015; final evaluation of the CARE program after Haiyan, 2017.
M. Milenova et al., systematic review of exit strategies for health programs, BMC Global and Public Health, 2025 (secondary source for Rogers and Coates, 2015, not consulted; the review cites a 2016 summary).
IFRC, IFRC Guidelines for Livelihoods Programming, 2010; IASC CWGER, Guidance Note on Early Recovery, 2008; SEEP Network, MERS, 2017.
C. M. Reyes, J. R. G. Albert and C. C. M. Reyes, PIDS Discussion Paper 2018-04 (Tacloban); Global Shelter Cluster, Shelter Projects 2017-2018, case study A.18, Nepal.

Chapter 15: Preparing for the Next One¶

C. Gros et al., "Effects of anticipatory humanitarian cash assistance to households forecasted to experience extreme flooding: evidence from Bangladesh," Hydrology Research, 2023.
Sendai Framework, 2015; UNDRR, Reducing Risk and Building Resilience of SMEs to Disasters, 2020.
E. Sandri, L. Beckmann and J. Robinson, Savings and Climate Resilience: Knowledge Review, Itad, 2021.
B. Magnoni and L. Budzyna, Doing the Math: Catastrophe Insurance in Haiti, MicroInsurance Centre, 2013; Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative, Emerging Insights: Managing Risk, 2016.
R. Beazley, case study on Dominica, Oxford Policy Management for WFP, 2018; C. O'Brien et al., Shock-Responsive Social Protection Systems Toolkit, Oxford Policy Management, 2018.
IFRC, brochure on forecast-based financing, 2022; WFP, study on anticipatory action in Mozambique, 2025; FAO, OCHA and WFP, Saving lives, time and money, 2025.
Grameen Foundation and Fonkoze, case study, 2011 (launch of Kore W).
H. Juillard and E. Sloane, Pre-Crisis Market Analysis, 2016; Economic Developers Alberta, Community Toolkit for Economic Recovery and Resiliency, 2019 (Joplin); SEEP Network, MERS, 2017.
Areas of focus policy statements and CED guidelines, April 2024 (see above).

Conclusion and appendixes¶

The conclusion brings no new fact. Appendix A draws on the guides in Chapter 3 (PDNA, EMMA, RAM, MARKit); Appendixes B and C draw on the chapters.

Method¶

The research for this book was carried out in nine thematic files, from the international recovery framework to real cases. It entered 275 sources in a single register: 100 read in full, 132 in part, and 43 that could not be obtained, each with the reason for the failure. The same register includes four sources from the research for the CED guide, read in full, for a total of 279 rows. Primary sources were preferred: official texts, evaluations, published studies. Press articles, Rotary publications and figures reported by the organization that ran a project are flagged as such in the text.

Every sensitive figure, quotation or rule was logged as a sensitive point, with its level of certainty and a drafting instruction: 382 points, of which 165 established, 151 probable, 42 unverified and 24 contested. An unverified or contested point does not go into the text, or goes in with its caveat. That is how the figure of "40% of businesses never reopen" was set aside: no original source could be found.

The manuscript was then checked in four passes, against the text of the sources themselves: 886 statements checked, including all the Foundation's rules.

Limits remain, and the text states them where they apply. Several cases rest on a single source: the madam sara of the introduction, Anilao, the Beirut timeline, the Fonkoze figures, the press dispatch on the Sri Lanka boats. No Rotary case of economic recovery has had an independent evaluation. A few documents could not be read, including the Rogers and Coates review (2015) on sustainability after exit. RAGCED's recovery mandate is known only through its chair's correspondence.

The research files, the source register and the list of sensitive points are kept with the manuscript.