A project proposal should be written in accordance to the specific guidelines given to you by the donor you are approaching. Make sure to understand what they want and to ask for clarifications in case you are not sure about any of the requirements. There is always a contact detail of a person who … [Read more...] about Important Points to Remember while writing Youth Development Proposals
Planning for Your Youth Development Projects
Planning starts once you have secured funding for your project. It involves giving tasks to staff members, distribute responsibilities and set a series of deadlines to respect the timeframe of the project in order to deliver the main results on time. The first thing to do is to gather all the … [Read more...] about Planning for Your Youth Development Projects
The Project Implementation Schedule for Your Youth Development Projects
The Project Implementation Schedule is a chart that clearly lists all the tasks necessary to complete the project and related deadlines. This Schedule is the most important part of planning because it will become the tool to use for the monitoring and evaluation phases of the project. You should … [Read more...] about The Project Implementation Schedule for Your Youth Development Projects
Stakeholder Management for Youth Development Projects
Stakeholder Management. Stakeholders are all the individuals or groups interest in the progress and results of your project. Stakeholders could be your donors, members of the public, the group of young people you are working with, the wider community, the media and also political authorities working … [Read more...] about Stakeholder Management for Youth Development Projects
Implementation of Youth Development Projects
Implementation follows the steps and deadlines set in the phase of planning. For instance, if your plan says that by the end of the first month the training manual should be completed, you have to make sure that the person or group in charge of the training manual are progressing their work in a … [Read more...] about Implementation of Youth Development Projects
Monitoring of Youth Development Projects
You should be able to determine whether an activity has been successfully completed or not by following the planned timetable. If you notice that an activity has not been completed, then you should list all the reasons why this has happened and measures you have taken to reduce the damage (refer to … [Read more...] about Monitoring of Youth Development Projects
End of the Project: Evaluation and Reporting for Youth Development Projects
After the end of the activities, the project enters its conclusive phase. The outputs of the project should be delivered and reports should be written for the donors and other interested stakeholders. This is the moment for all the members of the organisation to gather again and discuss about the … [Read more...] about End of the Project: Evaluation and Reporting for Youth Development Projects
Types of Evaluation that can be undertaken for Youth Development Projects
1) Final Evaluation. This is normally among the requirements of the donors. You should write a detailed report explaining how the project reached its targets and how the target groups benefited from participating in the project. The final evaluation gives the implementing organisation crucial … [Read more...] about Types of Evaluation that can be undertaken for Youth Development Projects
How to Develop Reporting for Youth Development Projects
Reporting means to provide information able to make stakeholders understand how the project is developing or how the project achieved its targets. You will be asked to write several reports. For instance, financial reports, narrative reports and closeout report. Regardless of the typology of the … [Read more...] about How to Develop Reporting for Youth Development Projects
Financial Management of Youth Development Projects
Financial management consists in allocating a budget for a proposed project, monitoring that the existing budget is sufficient to complete all the activities planned and also reporting on the financial story of the project during the final evaluation and reporting process. Financial management is … [Read more...] about Financial Management of Youth Development Projects
