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
How to actually write an overall objective?
What is the focus of your Objective Tree? Let’s strategize!
Your starting point can be a rough overall objective such as “social inclusion enhanced”, which
you can further polish into the following:
To enhance social inclusion principles in implementation of educational policy in North Macedonia
through improving equal opportunities for secondary education and providing enabling environment
for minority students to obtain vocational training.
Depending on the concrete opportunity for which you are applying, you may decide to modify
your strategy and move results, such as “decreased ethnic distance” to the level of effects/overall
objectives. Since the Objective Tree should be formulated in 'positive’ terms (such as increase,
improvement, betterment), you may reword this input into “increased social cohesion” or “intercultural
sensitivity strengthened”:
To strengthen intercultural sensitivity of young people in north Albania by enabling development
of intercultural competences through educational system and advancement of educational outcomes
for minority students.
Depending on the complexity of your Problem and Objective Trees and overall project idea, a
sample overall objective may also look like:
To support the civil society in the WB to foster reconciliation and regional youth co-operation
during COVID-19 pandemic by providing young people with opportunities that create space for
dialogue, mutual learning and increased understanding across communities and RYCO Contracting
Parties, in a changed reality caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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