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Yes. This is in fact the first step you need to do. If you send a proposal on environment to a donor agency which is only funding projects on disability, then you get automatically rejected. Besides, some donors can be very specific about the sub-areas of intervention; if they say that they are funding projects on women’s reproductive health rights, it has to be only that and not the overall women’s health.
In order to know about a donor agency, you can check its website initially. All major donor agencies have websites. You can first look at their objectives, goal or vision and whether it matches to the proposal idea you have. If it does not match, then you can leave it there, but if it does, then you can move further. Then you can start to find out if the donor agency is funding in your country or geographical area. The last thing you need to find out is whether there is a deadline to submit proposals. If there is a deadline, make sure that you submit it before the given date. If there are no deadlines and proposals are accepted round the year, then it is your golden chance to apply.
