Capacity Building Corner
GCP Project Proposal Development Workshop Archives
Workshops on Planning and Writing Scientific Project Proposals
This workshop is intended to help scientists who are planning, writing, or reviewing concept notes and proposals to submit to international donors. The Generation Challenge Program sponsored the development of the training material and the organization of three regional training workshops in 2005. The objective was to increase the capacity of the Generation Challenge Program (GCP) African, Latin American and Asian partners (NARS) in proposal development that leads to more effective distribution of research outputs and results, and to an increased fund raising ability. The Principal Investigator and main trainer was Karine Malgrand, formerly Programme Specialist-Fund Raising at the International Plant Genetic Resource Institute (IPGRI), now an independent consultant. Karine can be contacted at karine@malgrand.org.
The following PDF documents are copies of the power point presentations that were delivered in Cotonou, Kuala Lumpur and Quito in interactive training workshops using coaching and participatory questioning methods.
Copyright 2005 by the Generation Challenge Program (GCP) and the International Plant Genetic Resource Institute (IPGRI).
Except as expressly stated otherwise, the copyright and all rights related to this work are held by the GCP and IPGRI. Individuals may freely copy and print materials for educational or other non-commercial purposes without prior permission from the copyright holders. Acknowledgement of the source of the materials is required. Translation requires prior permission.
Request permission to publish and translate from:
Generation Challenge Programme
Carmen de Vicente (c.devicente@cgiar.org) or Antonia Okono (a.okono@cgiar.org).
- Agenda
- List of participants
- Presentation of the project to the Annual Research Meeting
- Workshops? poster
- Welcome and introductions
- Expectations and Outcome of the workshop
- Participatory planning approaches and motivation
- Process of proposal development
- Timetable for proposal development
- Problem analysis and problem tree
- Stakeholders analysis
- Developing a logframe
- Empty logframe
- Planning for product use
- Product table
- Donors? criteria
- List of donor?s criteria
- Writing tips
- Concept notes versus proposals
- Formats, donor differences and similarities
- Goal, Purpose, Objective
- Outputs
- Users and Beneficiaries
- Rationale/problem statement
- Title
- Approach, methodology
- Activities
- Work plan
- Project Management/reporting/evaluation/monitoring
- Partners, collaborators
- BudgetM
- Annexes
- Cover letter
- Fund raising
- Financing schemes
- Funding opportunities
- Bibliography