Course description
Among the most common institutional challenges facing relief and development organizations are to document effectively their activities and to develop highly saleable proposals for donor funding. These challenges have further resulted in limited capacity for resource mobilization in many organizations. Therefore, to bridge this capacity gap, we have planned to conduct this training in light of the current competitive and challenging funding environment.
Training on Project Proposal and Report Writing is an important concept in the project management arena. This is because without the skills the project managers cannot be in a position to request grants from the funders/donors of a project. It is thus paramount for the project managers and other stakeholders to train on this course to be better placed when managing projects.
Upcoming start dates
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
This Effective Project Proposal and Report Writing course is ideal for :
- Programme officers, managers, and other humanitarian and development agencies staff whose roles involve producing proposals and reports for their organization.
- Programme staff of humanitarian and development agencies including project managers, officers and assistants.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of this Effective Project Proposal and Report Writing course , you will be able to :
- Explain the basic concepts that are applied in the writing of project proposals and reports
- Enhance the capacity of trainees to develop highly competitive project proposal for donor funded projects.
- Increase the ability of trainees to generate and compile high-quality technical reports.
- Create a forum for practising project proposal development and report writing skills.
- Introduce participants to problem identification, understanding the cause-effect, and means-ends relationships for identifying a meaningful
- Explain the important skills of writing that are required to generate quality proposals
- Strengthen support for ideas in reports and proposals to get results
- Construct well-planned sentences and paragraphs leading to logical exposition of thought
- Intuitively write business reports with good structure
- Handling various reports such as: informative, persuasive, evaluative, problem-solving, project and feasibility reports
- Formulate a logical document into a specific action request based on a real concern
Training Course Content
Day 1
- Introduction to resource mobilization principles and practices.
- A snapshot of the current funding environment for non-profit organizations.
- Relevance of strong proposals and quality reports in a competitive scenario.
- Basic proposal elements, proposal formats, and proposal summary.
Day 2
- Call analysis, project concept development, formulation of the project objectives and a preliminary work plan.
- Needs assessment, project design frameworks,
- problem statement, problem justification, project goals and objectives setting,
- Project output and outcomes, project strategy and approaches, and Project implementation planning.
Day 3
- Monitoring and evaluation framework and plan, organizational frameworks.
- Defining the work packages developing a Gantt chart and a PERT diagram, establishing a complementary partnership, discussion on impact and exploitation issues.
- Importance of quality reporting in a competitive business environment.
Day 4
- Determining suitable reporting for different audiences.
- Key elements of technical reporting.
- Monthly progress reports, activity reports, routine reports, field trip reports, meetings reports.
- Elements of a good budget.
- Finalizing the proposal with the Budget Development discussing final issues and introducing a real proposal.
Day 5
- Local and international trends in report and proposal writing
- Why the business world is now trying to simplify reports.
- Taking a reader-centered approach.
- Concept to construction-a practical guide to report-building
- How to produce a powerful one-page executive summary
- Why knowing how to self-edit is a must for anyone writing a report.
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