Deadline: 27 March 2015 The Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development is seeking proposals for fifth call for ground-breaking, sustainable innovations to save the lives of mothers and newborns in the hardest to reach corners of the world. The Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge … [Read more...] about Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development Round 5 Now Open
Fellowship Opportunity to Journalists: Trip to South Africa and Mozambique for Maternal and Child Health Reporting
Deadline: 12 May 2014 The United Nations Foundation and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) have jointly launched the Maternal and Child Health Reporting Fellowship Program. This is an opportunity for journalists around the world to get a unique opportunity to tour South Africa and … [Read more...] about Fellowship Opportunity to Journalists: Trip to South Africa and Mozambique for Maternal and Child Health Reporting
How to come up with Fundable Ideas or Designs of a Proposed Project? – Proposal for USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth
2. The USAID funded two rounds of the year 2011 and 2012 in the past, which includes mainly two types of projects: science and technology, or service and community. Among those funded projects, most of them were about science and technology, but only a smaller part of them was about community and … [Read more...] about How to come up with Fundable Ideas or Designs of a Proposed Project? – Proposal for USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth
Special Interests from the USAID Saving Lives at Birth
You may compare the situations in your society to those funding projects, and if you could find out similar situations and the project has not been granted in your society, you could apply similar project ideas and designs to your areas and start working on your proposal. The following topics are … [Read more...] about Special Interests from the USAID Saving Lives at Birth
How to write the Title for your Proposal for USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth?
A brief, sharp, and attractive title which will be focused on the saving lives at birth project will be what you need to consider and write about. Those titles in the Round One and Round Two are very good examples as chosen and funded titles. For example, one of the titles of “Mobilizing Maternal … [Read more...] about How to write the Title for your Proposal for USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth?
How to Write a Good Summary Paragraph for Your Proposal to apply for USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth?
Compared to an abstract, which you may be more familiar with, the summary paragraph is shorter and more summarized, and it has to be 250 words maximum. It is a brief introduction and justification of the proposal. Most importantly, it should contain the problem or developmental challenge. In this … [Read more...] about How to Write a Good Summary Paragraph for Your Proposal to apply for USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth?
Knowing the Criteria to apply for USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth
For the Transition Application, they will be screened only when a large number of transition applications are received. The Innovation Screen Criteria are as follows. The solution offers a creative approach to the problem and is clearly differentiated from existing approaches; Have the … [Read more...] about Knowing the Criteria to apply for USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth
Project Goals and Objectives to apply for USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth
If it is an obvious problem, such as higher rates of newborn death, you may compare the local problem to other societies to show the reviewers that the problem happening in your society is more severe than other regions. On the other hand, you will need to convince the reviewers that the solutions … [Read more...] about Project Goals and Objectives to apply for USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth
What should be Included in the Section II: How will you execute and test your plan? USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth Proposal
The Section II will be the activities, the results, and the monitor plans you want to use to monitor your results, and you should write no more than 700-800 words. The activities represent the tasks or work you are going to perform in the project and you may write about 250 words. The most important … [Read more...] about What should be Included in the Section II: How will you execute and test your plan? USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth Proposal
Writing Monitorable Results for USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth
The defining of clear, meaningful and monitorable results is required for Section II, and you may write about 250 words. The expected results in a proposal can be categorized as three levels: output, outcome, and impact. The outputs are those results that happen right away after the performances of … [Read more...] about Writing Monitorable Results for USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth
