Project Design and Fundraising training

The ASAP Secretariat is pleased offer a new online training opportunity on Project Design and Fundraising, in partnership with the Tropical Biology Association (TBA). The fundraising course will be focused on developing and writing grant applications.

This training will be a mixture of self-paced online learning, interactive zoom sessions with the trainers, and tasks with personalised feedback. There will also be the opportunity for direct one-to-one coaching with either TBA or the ASAP Secretariat.

  • The entire training is expected to take approximately 46 hours of learning (divided into two courses at 23 hours each).

  • There will be one 90-minute interactive zoom session for each module.

  • The training will run from 4 November to 12 December 2024 and 10 February to 21 March 2025.

  • Most of the learning will be self-paced and all training will be online.

  • Timings of the modules and the training content are detailed further below.

All training and materials will be in English. A good level of English language will be needed to participate.

We will require a Letter of Support from the head of your organisation to confirm your participation.

A template for this letter can be downloaded here. Please send the completed Letter of Support to contact(at)asapspecies.org

The training is only available to ASAP Partners. Details on how to become an ASAP Partner can be found here.

The deadline for application submission is 20 September 2024.

Key information

Location: Online

Application deadline: 20 September 2024

Course dates: 4 November 2024 to 12 December 2024 and 10 February to 21 March 2025

Time commitment: approx 46 hours

How to apply: Complete this application form

Details

We expect to be able to offer fully funded places for 15 – 18 applicants from ASAP Partner organisations and it will be a competitive application process. More than one participant per organisation may be accepted.

Priority will be given to staff at local or national organisations that are working to conserve neglected ASAP Species, are committed to attend all training sessions in both courses and are in the process of developing projects or project proposals on neglected ASAP Species.

For any enquiries, please email us at contact(at)asapspecies.org

Course 1: Project Design - 4 November to 12 December 2024

Designing projects: 4 to 14 November; interactive zoom session on 14 November

  • Describe and list the causes of your conservation problem

  • Develop a problem tree for your conservation problem

  • Describe the short- and long-term impacts for your project

  • Create a logical project hierarchy

Measuring impact: 18 to 28 November; interactive zoom session on 28 November

  • Importance of measuring impacts

  • Generating indicators for your project, both quantitative and qualitative

  • Understanding baselines and different approaches to obtaining data

  • Monitoring and evaluation, and the role of adaptive management

Monitoring impacts: 2 to 12 December; interactive zoom session on 12 December

  • Understanding the role of logframes

  • De-mystifying logframe terminology

  • Creating a logframe for your project  

  • Integrating logframes with monitoring plans

Course 2: Fundraising - 10 February to 21 March 2025

Fundraising principles: 10 to 20 February; interactive zoom session on 20 February

  • Principles of fundraising – a partnership approach

  • Developing a rationale

  • Exploring the selling points of our proposal

Developing winning proposals: 24 February to 6 March; interactive zoom session on 6 March 

  • Interpreting different proposal formats and terminology

  • Creating a coherent proposal structure

  • Writing skills for fundraising

  • Budgets and sustainability sections

Fundraising strategies: 10 to 20 March; interactive zoom session on 20 March

  • Diversifying funding streams

  • Resourcing projects and evaluating “hidden” costs

  • Designing a fundraising strategy

  • The role of communication in fundraising