Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
