Dear University Community
NOTE: This training targets Faculty and PhD Students
Session 1 - 11 Slots left.
Session 2 - Fully Booked
Session 3 - 19 Slots left.
About the Training
Now in its 9th year of annual training, the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Innovation and Enterprise shall offer three sessions in the 2019-2020 academic year. The hands-on participatory workshops, lasting three days each, shall continue to strengthen the capacity of all participants to develop sound, fundable proposals to attract research funding.
The trainings are not restricted to University of Nairobi staff members and students, but are open to the General Public. UoN staff members and fully registered PhD students training fees, however, are highly subsidised by the University.
The workshops will adopt a practice-oriented teamwork approach providing opportunities for the sharing of experiences between participants with different levels of experience in proposal development.
Workshop Topics:
- Overview of proposal development.
- Identifying potential sources of research/consultancy funds, as well as identifying agency priorities and guidelines.
- Understanding the overall structure of a proposal and its component parts:
- Project Summary
- Project Rationale
- Goals, Objectives, Impact, Beneficiaries, and Success Criteria
- Activities, Research Hypothesis(es), Work plans: Who will do what, when and how (including timelines) – Use of Logical Framework Analysis (Logframes)
- Budgets
- Mechanisms for Monitoring and Evaluation
- Understanding the terminology and steps of the logical framework analysis and putting together a log frame matrix
- Budget development
- Success factors in proposal development.
- Common mistakes made during proposal writing.
- Communication: Basics on proposal writing, including consistency in presentation, equations, presentations of tables and figures and references.
- Proposal-writing as a project
As part of the workshop activities, participants will be able to review examples of successful proposals, as well as make any proposals they are currently working on available for critique and improvement.
For more details visit Research and Innovation Website, https://uonresearch.org
Regards
Prof. Madara Ogot
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Research, Innovation and Enterprise
University of Nairobi
P.O. Box 30197-00100
NAIROBI
+254777114702
Follow me on twitter: @madaraogot
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