Download a Great Sample Proposal on ‘Women’s Livelihood Development’

 

 

Building livelihoods through microenterprises for women is one of the remarkable ideas for developing sustainability, improving household income and creating jobs in the poorest regions of the world. A lot of donor agencies including the USAID, the World Bank and the United Nations emphasize upon enhancing the business development skills of women for sustainable development. […]

 

How to Write, Develop and Manage Your Youth Development Projects

 

The main goal of this guide is to explain how to write and manage a project addressing youth in a successful way. The Guide starts by explaining what we mean with Project Management. It will continue by explaining how to deal with the different phases of Project Management namely Preparation, Planning, Implementation and End of […]

 

How to Write Successful Proposals for Youth-based Projects

General guidelines for writing project proposals apply for youth project proposals, although, in this case, the strength of your proposal will be assessed against your ability to make a case for the importance of investing in youth in your community. Whether you are applying for an award that is specifically tailored for youth organisations or […]

 

How to summarize a Full Proposal into a Short Concept Note

 

The submission of concept notes is increasingly becoming the first step in the application for funding to the main agencies and private donors. This is how your potential donor will make the first selection among a large group of project proposals to assess their potential. Accordingly, concept notes could be solicited directly by the donor, […]

 

How to write an attractive and effective Project Title for your Project Proposal

 

The title of a project is of ultimate importance, thus make sure to take your time to find the best one. Titles must be attractive and exciting at the same time. The title must convey the meaning, the area of intervention and the goals of the project while being enticing. It is good practice to […]

How NGOs can write Project Reports

Report writing is considered as a secondary task while implementing development projects. The efforts we put in writing or preparing our project reports are not even 25% of the efforts we put in our project activities.

Most of the time we write the reports, in an apathetic manner obviously bound with the obligation of deliverables towards our donor, when the deadline for its submission is close. Such an attitude itself makes our approach evident.

However if we analyze minutely, reports are the reflection what we have done on the field. Reports may provide you an opportunity to present and share your work on a wide level apart from being just project documents. The number of projects having someone specifically for report writing or documentation is much lower. That makes it all the more important for all of us in the development field to have some idea, how to present our work in an impressive manner, how to write good reports.

To this end there are some general points of consideration while one writes a report and others are the guidelines for writing some specific reports. Please click on the links below to read more:

• Writing Project Reports: A General Introduction for NGOs

• The Structure and Format of the Project Report

• Important Points NGOs need to focus while writing Project Reports

• How NGOs can write Monthly Project Reports

• How NGOs can write Quarterly Reports for their Projects

• How NGOs can develop Annual Report and Activity Report

• How NGOs can develop Meeting Minutes

• How NGOs can write Project Completion Report