Course Overview

The ability of development partners to implement their project interventions is dependent on their access to donor funding. Access to these funds requires the submission of proposals for consideration by the potential donors. Once funds are secured, Project management helps to effectively deliver quality projects within the cost, time and scope constraints.

This course aims to equip participants with skills in writing and presenting effective and successful proposals and the skills to ensure that projects are completed on time, within the budget and according to expectations. Participants will gain a strong working knowledge of project management, resource mobilization and proposal writing and be able to immediately use that knowledge to effectively mobilize for resources and manage projects.

Target Participants

This course is aimed at managers, program/project coordinators and project staff who want to increase their resource mobilization and project management skills and apply a formalized and standards-based approach to resource mobilization and project management.

Course Duration

2 weeks

Objectives

By the end of this course the participants will be able to:

• Understand different ways of resource mobilization
• Understand the principles of project development and proposal writing
• Organize the different components of a proposal in a logical flow
• Write an effective proposal according to donor’s requirements and guidelines
• Use M&E frameworks in project design when developing a proposal
• Initiate a project.
• Develop project schedules
• Plan, monitor and control project quality, staffing, and communications.
• Analyze project risks.
• Monitor and control project work.
• Monitor and control project schedule and costs
• Write good quality reports tailored to a target audience

Course Outline

• Introduction to Resource Mobilization
• Resource Mobilization Strategy
• Introduction to Proposal Writing
• Introduction/background
• Problem statement
• Project Justification/Rationale
• Project Design
• Implementation Strategies
• Project Monitoring and Evaluation
• Risk Management
• Project Management
• Cross Cutting Issues in Proposal Writing
• Work Plan
• Organization Capacity 
• Budget Development
• Submitting the proposal
• Proposal Review
• Proposal and Report Writing Best practices

Training Approach

This course is delivered by our seasoned trainers who have vast experience as expert professionals in their respective fields of practice. The course is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group works and case studies.

Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.

Certification

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be issued a certificate.

Tailor-Made Course

We can also do this as a tailor-made course to meet organization-wide training needs. A training needs assessment will be done on the training participants to collect data on the existing skills, knowledge gaps, training expectations and tailor-made needs.