Training

We provide off-the-shelf, tailored or bespoke training, from creating winning proposals to facilitating inception meetings for funded projects.

Off the shelf course are cost-effective and provide an introduction, refresher or enable a group of people to gain valuable insights.

Tailored and bespoke training provides a much greater depth and relevance for the specific project, programme or organisation. For example we would look at the specific call for proposals prior to a tailored proposal development course, or the contractual conditions of your donor as part of bespoke project inception meeting training.

Some of our training courses

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

• Interpret the guidelines for a proposal call
• Formulate your theory of change
• Develop a basic logframe or results framework with SMART indicators
• Appreciate the considerations for budget development
• Assess project sustainability and risk
• Succinctly represent organisation and management structure

• Develop your theory of change
• Design a logframe or results framework for a new project
• Articulate the difference between an output and an outcome
• Apply SMART principles to indicators
• Understand the need for baselines to benchmark change and for evidence-based results
• Appreciate the tools that can be used for baseline collection

• Develop your theory of change
• Develop a logframe or results framework for a new project
• Articulate the difference between an output and an outcome
• Apply SMART principles to indicators
• Check whether sustainability and risks have been sufficiently considered in logframes
• Appreciate different logframe styles used by donors

• Recognise mid-term evaluations as a process for learning and adaptation, providing an opportunity to scale up or scale down actions
• Determine the process and timeline for a mid-term evaluation
• Appreciate the evaluation expectations of different donors
• Develop Terms of Reference for a mid-term evaluation that make it clear to evaluators what is expected both in terms of content and process

• Understand the roles and responsibilities of the entire team
• Appreciate their contractual obligations
• Review budgets, workplans and reporting templates
• Define monitoring based on your theory of change, logframe/results framework, indicators, tools and the baselines, developing these where absent
• Decide howto communicate and promote the project
• Articulate a clear sustainability strategy