Non-Governmental Organizations in Dominica educated in proposal writing
Dominican non-governmental organizations got the talents wanted to plan and strategize their concepts into sustainable, long-term initiatives by a three-day Proposal Writing workshop.
The workshop was held final week on the Nationwide Improvement Fund for Dominica.
The all-day classes have been facilitated by Karen Philip of Kainos Consulting and Christon Herbert, Mission Officer on the Caribbean Coverage Improvement Centre.
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They supplied key insights and data on find out how to write profitable proposals and inform the tales of each their organizations and the interventions they wished to pursue.
Workshop matters additionally emphasised the position of venture planning and improvement and an introduction to creating and sustaining a venture price range.
The nationwide workshop attracted representatives from over 20 Dominican NGOs engaged on a variety of points, comparable to kids’s improvement, supporting girls and ladies, and selling environmental sustainability, amongst others.
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The initiative was certainly one of a number of nationwide interventions below the shaped a part of the Strengthening Civil Society to Alleviate the Impression of COVID-19 on Weak Communities in Barbados and the Japanese Caribbean venture, additionally known as the Strengthening Civil Society Capability (SCSC) venture.
It goals to assist regional civil society organizations as they rebuild and retool out of the extreme fallouts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2-year initiative is managed by the Caribbean Coverage Improvement Centre and is funded by the European Union. Workshop individuals praised the initiative, and famous that it allowed them to construct on present proposal writing abilities, permitting them to develop into extra aligned with donor’s expectations. Additionally they benefited from sharing spare with different organizations who could also be dealing with related challenges with successful grants from native, regional, and worldwide sources.
Herbert mentioned that this was the primary time {that a} nationwide workshop was being held in Dominica below the auspices of the SCSC venture. “We proceed to hearken to our companions on the bottom with a view to verify what data can be most helpful for organizations inside their nationwide context. After we spoke to CSOs in Dominica, they informed us that they needed to strengthen their abilities in venture writing, and we’re comfortable to have the ability to ship on that,” he mentioned.
“As we transfer to different islands within the Japanese Caribbean, we’ll once more make sure that our CSO constituents are foregrounded within the intervention we ship. As donors and sub-grantors, it is crucial for us to set this instance of being grounded within the wants of your beneficiaries, as that is the way in which we want to see our sub-grantees function whereas finishing up their very own work.”