Materials Licensing Scheme

The purpose of our materials licensing scheme is to work with other values-based organisations who provide financial management training to NGO staff, to help them avoid having to 're-invent the wheel'.

We have to be careful that we do this in a way that does not jeopardise our relationship with clients, our reputation or organisational sustainability, so we have to be selective about who we license our materials to.

Which courses can you license?

Licenses are currently available for the following standard Mango courses (other courses will be added):

• FM1: Practical Financial Management for NGOs - Getting the Basics Right
• FM2: Financial Sustainability Essentials - How to Build a Financing Strategy
• FM8: Successful Grant management: How to Keep Your Donors Happy
• BE2: Budgeting for Project Proposals: How to Write Budgets that Win Funds

We also license tailored materials – ie where we adapt or write a new course especially for you as part of a Training Partnership relationship.

What does it cost to license Mango’s materials?

We aim to keep the license fee at an affordable rate. We want to recognise similar organisations’ joint commitment to our work and to set the rate at a level that reflects the considerable amount of time spent on past and current development of our training materials.

From 1 January 2012, the inclusive fees for unlimited use of licensed materials for either three years or five years duration, are as follows:
 

What do you get for the license fee?

Licenses to use Mango materials run for three or five years and are renewable. In return for a set license fee, the licensee receives:

• The right to use the Mango’s materials (within agreed terms of reference) without limit on the number of courses delivered, for the agreed period.
• An electronic copy of all materials including:

- Course Handbook (a bound reference manual)

- Course Workbook (a loose-leaf pack with programme guide, activity sheets and notes pages)

- Detailed Session Plans for the trainer (including timed programme, list of resources, copies of flip charts)

- Facilitators’ notes (additional notes and advice on how to run selected activities)

- Resource materials (eg ‘flash cards’ for flip charts and activities props)

- Full printing instructions

• One complete hard copy Trainer’s Pack including laminated resources.
• Regular updates of the licensed materials and advice on how to use them
• Reasonable support to trainers by email or phone.

Who can buy a license?

The licence scheme is open to values-based organisations (usually not-for-profit organisations) who are committed to building the financial capacity of staff involved in humanitarian and development work.

We are currently reviewing our strategy on licensing our materials and revised criteria will be published here in February 2012.

How are the materials branded?

The licensing organisation will offer training under their brand. They will acknowledge that they have licensed the materials from Mango on all the training materials they use.

Mango retains the copyright and intellectual property rights on all materials that it licenses to other organisations.