Godfrey Senkaba discusses the critical role for monitoring and evaluation specialists play in helping their organizations’ new business development or proposal development efforts. He outlines the 7 best tips as must-do’s for evaluation specialists during the prepositioning phase of a grant project proposal development process. The 7 tips below are discussed with practical examples:

· Research the donor M&E interests and/or priorities.

· Conduct an Organization DME Capacity assessment

· Review of the capacity of the local country office or local project implementer

· Provide technical /quality review of the needs assessment design and analysis.

· Assess/document current project/s evidence of impact.

· Gather ‘market’ DME intelligence.

· Be present/maintain M&E technical visibility.

You need to check out episodes 12 - positioning, 13 – proposal development, 14 – submission, and 15 – post submission, to get a complete understanding of how to add value to the proposal development process as a monitoring and evaluation specialist or officer.

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