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Introduction

Welcome to the course Grants Management and Evaluation!  This module carries 12 credits and is a modular course. It will be divided into two streams.  The grant process follows a linear lifecycle that includes creating the funding opportunity, applying, making award decisions, and successfully implementing the award. We shall delve into all these phases to that you can get grounded as grants administrator or manager in your respective organizations.

Course Description

Success in writing and winning grants comes through practice-based effort, sustained enthusiasm, tenacity, and a commitment to turn temporary setbacks (i.e., proposal rejection). GRANTS Management is a Step by Step which starts from the basic grant writing process, submitting to the grant opportunities, following directions, building relationships, and implementing sound program planning. By employing management strategies as outlined in here, you will significantly increase your ability to turn organizational programs, projects, and even general operating needs into proposals worthy of the full consideration of funders. The course will equip the participants with knowledge needed to manage grants through the entire process and managing the evaluations there-in.

Evaluation is a component of management at various levels of any programme or project. The course will also involves assessing the terms and conditions of donor aid and grant agreements, managing multiple donors funded projects and complying with donor reporting requirements on programmes. This course therefore addresses evaluation systems of the grants life cycle including management and Evaluation with specific reference to the geopolitics of donors and recipients. Traditional and new providers of grants include the bilateral and multi-laterals, as aid, grants or development loans. Therefore, the course builds up the subject matter of responsibilities and routines of recipients of donor aid and grants. This entails management that takes track of progress in relation to donors’ expectations through a program’s life cycle, evaluation of the flow of donor funds, and the key challenges in evaluation of donor aid and grant management and the context. This course is useful for grant management officers in various development organizations, researchers on policy in the public sector and policy evaluators. It goes a long way to inform decisions on future projects.

Mr. Olekua Jimmy