Strengthening livelihoods, especially ensuring food security and increasing income opportunities for local communities, is one of the core responsibilities of NGOs working in poor and developing countries. As many efforts are made in this direction, small organizations continue to face challenges in developing a plan or a project proposal to raise funds to support their… [Read More]
How to define “problem” in a project proposal
Defining the Problem The foremost part of any proposal is to identify and analyze the problem we have seen in our area. These are the general problems that we may notice in our project area. But simply writing down these problems will not help. We need to be analytical to know why these problems are… [Read More]
Why NGOs should ask “Why” when writing project proposals?
How to find the cause of the problem we are seeing around us One of the ways to analyze a problem or trying to find the cause of the problem is to ask oneself: “Why this is happening?” By continuously asking oneself this question, we can reach out to the cause of the problem. There… [Read More]
Analyzing Problems: Cause-Effect Relationship – NGO tool for writing proposals
We should not stop immediately after identifying just one cause. Remember that there are a chain of events that lead to a certain problem, and these events should be noted down. We have to address all possible causes to effectively get rid of the problem Problem Why? Cause Again Why? Further Causes A lot of… [Read More]
The Framework for NGOs to identify Problems, Causes, Issues & Solutions while writing project proposals
The above table can become larger as we keep identifying more causes to the causes we have already identified. Once we think that we have arrived to the root of the cause and there is a possible solution that can be applied to it, we can stop and start writing the proposal. The solution is… [Read More]
Writing the Problem Description in a NGO proposal for a community livelihood development project
Once the above-mentioned problem framework is ready, a lot of clarity will be achieved. With this framework, we know the problem, we know the effects and we know the root causes of these all. Besides, we also know the solution i.e. what we need to do and also for whom it needs to be done…. [Read More]
Compiling Facts for Projects while writing proposals
However, we need to remember that after examining the problem and analyzing its cause and effect relationship, we also have to collect facts to support our observations. Your proposal can instantly get rejected if you do not supply facts because nobody is going to believe you until you have made references to the existing problems… [Read More]
How NGOs can collect facts when research is missing…Community interaction through focus group discussions
In some cases, research may just be not available. Suppose your project is about preventing human trafficking in your project area, but you may be surprised that there is absolutely no research data available about this. This can be very challenging. In such a case, NGOs themselves can undertake a quick survey of the situation… [Read More]
How to write a Project Justification in a proposal on community livelihood development project
Once the Problem Description is ready, we need to write another separate paragraph for Project Justification. Project Justification is about trying to explain why we need to implement a particular solution to the problem we have narrated above. We need to tell donors why this is the best solution to address the problem. For example,… [Read More]
