E11 - The 7 Best Ways Monitoring and Evaluation Specialists Can Preposition for Grant Project Proposals

Godfrey Senkaba discusses the critical role for monitoring and evaluation specialists play in helping their organizations’ new business development or proposal development efforts. He outlines the 7 best tips as must-do’s for evaluation specialists during the prepositioning phase of a grant project proposal development process. The 7 tips below are discussed with practical examples: 

·       Research the donor M&E interests and/or priorities.

·       Conduct an Organization DME Capacity assessment

·       Review of the capacity of the local country office or local project implementer

·       Provide technical /quality review of the needs assessment design and analysis.

·       Assess/document current project/s evidence of impact.

·       Gather ‘market’ DME intelligence.

·       Be present/maintain M&E technical visibility. 

You need to check out episodes 12 - positioning, 13 – proposal development, 14 – submission, and 15 – post submission, to get a complete understanding of how to add value to the proposal development process as a monitoring and evaluation specialist or officer.

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