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the key principles of grants administration. While the CGRPs contain a number of mandatory requirements, the key principles provide flexibility in how accountable authorities and officials can work together with stakeholders to administer grants and achieve government policy outcomes.
    6.2.       The nine key principles for grants administration that apply to the grants lifecycle and all grant opportunities[53] are:
          * robust planning and design;
          * collaboration and partnership;
          * proportionality;
          * an outcomes orientation;
          * merit-based processes;
          * achieving value with relevant money;
          * consistency with grant guidelines and established processes;
          * governance and accountability; and
          * probity and transparency.
    6.3.       Accountable authorities and officials must put in place practices and procedures to ensure that grants administration is conducted in a manner that is consistent with these nine key principles.[54] Ensuring that the requirements of the CGRPs are well understood and effectively incorporated into grants administration supports the achievement of policy outcomes.
    6.4.       The CGRPs provide the framework within which accountable authorities put in place internal controls and associated operational guidance related to grants administration within each entity[55]. Accountable authorities are encouraged to use whole-of-government guidance[56] as the basis for their own internal controls, as this will reduce the risk of misinterpreting the requirements of the resource management framework and promote consistency for stakeholders.
    6.5.       Officials should work together with government and non-government stakeholders, through all phases of the grants lifecycle. Officials should build productive relationships with potential grantees and grantees to collaboratively achieve government policy outcomes.

  7.   Robust Planning and Design
    7.1.       High quality planning underpins efficient, effective, economical and ethical grants administration.
    7.2.       Officials should work together with government and non-government stakeholders to plan, design and undertake grants administration.
          * Potential grantees, grantees and beneficiaries will likely have valuable insights into how best to design and implement grant opportunities. This will assist to achieve policy outcomes appropriately aligned to public needs.
    7.3.       Grants administration processes should be proportional to the scale and risk profile of the grant opportunity. Officials should consider that grant opportunities affect not only the Commonwealth and grantees but may also impact on other beneficiaries of a grant as well.
    7.4.       Officials should address all relevant planning and implementation issues before commencing grant opportunities. These issues should be built into the design of any grant opportunity.
          * The specific issues to be addressed will depend on the nature of the grant opportunity. A complex open, two-stage grant opportunity may, for example, require a different approach to a closed, non-competitive grant.
    7.5.       Officials should have regard to all relevant planning issues, including the need to:[57]
          * establish a rationale for grant opportunities, particularly what outcomes are expected and how these will be measured;
          * define the operational