Sub Project Concept Note Submitted to HELVETAS Swiss ...

Sub Project Concept Note
Submitted to HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Nepal for Good Governance Small Grant
under the Citizen Actions for Results, Transparency and Accountability (CARTA)
Programme
Note: the concept note must not exceed 6 pages. Applications, including the supplementary documents
indicated in the Request for Concept Notes, should be submitted to HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
Nepal, Programme Coordination Office, Dhobighat, Lalitpur-3, GPO Box 688, Kathmandu, or be sent by
email to po@helvetas.org.np
1. Basic Information
a. Contact Information
Name of the CSO
Name of the CSO’s contact person
Designation of the contact person
Contact nos. of the contact person Office: Mobile:
Address of the CSO
Telephone/Fax of the CSO
Email address
Website (if any)
b. Legal Status
Registration number
Date of registration/renewal
Name of the registering agency
Name of the registering district
VAT/PAN number
c. Qualifications and capacity
� In addition to the information contained in the supplementary documents, provide any
further information to confirm that your CSO satisfies the eligibility criteria.
� Describe any previous experience your CSO has had implementing and managing
projects for promotion of demand for good governance.
� Mention any wider lessons or experience your CSO has drawn on in developing this note.
� Describe your CSO’s current human, technical and financial capacity to manage and
implement this project.
� Describe any technical assistance you will require from other organizations including PTF.
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2. Sub-project Details
Title of the sub-project
State the title of your project
Problem statement
� Based on the description and objectives of the World Bank-financed project to be
supported and the scope and objectives of CSO monitoring activities described in the
project specific Terms of Reference posted on HELVETAS Nepal website, describe your
understanding of the issues and problems to be addressed.
� Describe your understanding of the context of the activities, including the underlying
causes of the issues to be addressed.
� Describe possible obstacles in carrying out the activities and how you would deal with
them.
Sub-project objectives
� State in bullets your overall objective and the specific objective with less explanation. This
should relate to the problems given above.
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Proposed Approach and Methodology
� Indicate your approach to carrying out the activities and any specific methodologies you
would employ
� Indicate the geographic area and the target beneficiaries of the project to be involved in
the sub-project and the rationale for their selection, also indicating how they will be
affected by the sub-project.
� Indicate the staff to be involved, other CSO resources that would be engaged, and how
you would be organized to conduct the work.
� If your CSO proposes to collaborate with other partners, such as other civil society groups,
these groups should be identified and their agreement to participate in the project already
assured.
� Since cooperation with implementing agencies is critical to the success of the activities,
indicate how your CSO would cooperate with the implementing agencies and other
involved government authorities.
� Indicate project duration using the grant funds.
Expected results and outputs:
� List the expected results as precisely as possible in relation to your problem and the
objectives mentioned above. Possible results include the effects of the CSO activities on
the implementation processes and outcomes of the project being supported, the
performance of implementing agencies, and impacts on potential and actual beneficiaries
and communities in the project area.
� Describe how the results would be measured and documented
� Briefly state the potential of the scaling-up and possibility of implementing your project
idea in a different region or globally
� Also, indicate how the CSO’s activities would be reported as well as any other outputs
expected.
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Budget estimate
� Mention the estimated budget (in USD) needed to implement the sub-project
� Mention the main budget-lines
� Also, describe the expected contribution of the sub-project cost
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