Beginner’s Manual for Project Proposal Writing 101
Not Another Boring Handbook: Learn to Write Successful Projects The RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia in cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia publishes the “Beginner’s Manual for Project Proposal Writing 101”. This Manual is conceptualized to support the advancement of project writing skills for the successful design of projects and initiatives that can connect the Western Balkan youth. It supports beginner practitioners to understand the structure of grant proposals, develop project elements and create inclusive youth projects. By offering a practical resource, the Manual includes a variety of exercises and tools on the topic. Most importantly, it draws on lessons learned from several trainings organized by RYCO and the OSCE field operations in the Western Balkans. The three thematic parts which lay at the center of the “Beginner’s Manual for Project Proposal Writing 101” are: ● Unwrapping grant-making logic and understanding processes behind the grant life cycle; ● Highlighting the importance of participation and diversity in youth mobility projects; ● Guiding through major project elements and technical aspects of project writing. RYCO and the OSCE Mission to Serbia hope that this Manual will serve as an important companion to all interested individuals, organizations and secondary schools.
Not Another Boring Handbook: Learn to Write Successful Projects
The RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia in cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia publishes the “Beginner’s Manual for Project Proposal Writing 101”.
This Manual is conceptualized to support the advancement of project writing skills for the successful design of projects and initiatives that can connect the Western Balkan youth. It supports beginner practitioners to understand the structure of grant proposals, develop project elements and create inclusive youth projects.
By offering a practical resource, the Manual includes a variety of exercises and tools on the topic. Most importantly, it draws on lessons learned from several trainings organized by RYCO and the OSCE field operations in the Western Balkans.
The three thematic parts which lay at the center of the “Beginner’s Manual for Project Proposal Writing 101” are:
● Unwrapping grant-making logic and understanding processes behind the grant life cycle;
● Highlighting the importance of participation and diversity in youth mobility projects;
● Guiding through major project elements and technical aspects of project writing.
RYCO and the OSCE Mission to Serbia hope that this Manual will serve as an important companion to all interested individuals, organizations and secondary schools.
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Beginner’s manual Project proposal writing 101
Climbing the ladders
ROGER HART MODEL
Roger Hart, author of the Ladder of Participation (1992) 3 , maintains that participation is a fundamental
right of citizenship, because it is a way of learning what it means to be a citizen. The Ladder
of Participation presents a classification of interaction between children/young people and
adults as rungs on a ladder: the higher the rung, the higher the level of participation. It is one of
the most well-known developmental models.
1. Manipulation
Adults lead children/young people in accordance with a scheme known only to the adults. The
children/young people do not understand what is happening, and they are not free to explore or
act on their own thinking. Adults use some of their ideas but do not provide children/youth with
recognition on what influence they have. It also happens when there is no understanding of the
issues and hence participants do not understand their actions.
2. Decoration
Children/young people take part in an event, e.g. by singing, dancing, wearing T-shirts with logos,
but they do not really understand the issue or goal. The reason this is described as one rung
up from 'manipulation’ is that adults do not pretend that the cause is inspired by youth.
3. Tokenism
Children/young people are asked to say what they think about an issue but have little or no
choice about the way they express those views or the scope of the ideas they can express.
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4. Assigned but informed
Adults decide on the project and children/young people volunteer for set roles within it. Adults
inform them adequately and respect their views.
3 First published in Children’s Participation: From Tokenism to Citizenship by UNICEF in 1992
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