Live Online Humanitarian Project Design and Proposal Development Training

Donors receive far more funding requests than they can support, and humanitarian appeals that lack a clear link between assessed needs, activities and results rarely survive review. The week starts with the operating context of crisis response, humanitarian principles and the expectations set by the Sphere minimum standards and the Core Humanitarian Standard. You then move from needs assessment data to problem and objective trees, a theory of change and a logical framework with SMART indicators, assumptions and means of verification. Budgeting, activity costing, work plans and the risk, safeguarding and compliance sections that institutional donors check closely are covered in detail.

Practical sessions take a realistic emergency scenario from first assessment to a complete concept note, with peer review against typical donor scoring criteria. Programme officers, project managers, grants and partnerships staff, and field coordinators in NGOs, UN agencies and community-based organizations will find the material directly usable. You come away able to design a coherent intervention, justify every budget line and write narrative sections that read clearly to reviewers. A reusable proposal checklist helps your team respond faster when the next call for proposals opens.