Most organizations in developing countries depend on externally generated resources from various sources (local and international foundations, bi-lateral and multi-lateral organizations, and the corporate organizations) to implement their programs and fulfill obligations to their beneficiaries and give little (if at all any) attention to locally generated resources.
It is a well known fact that Human needs and demands are limitless and resources are scarce and competitive. Realising the significance of generating resources both locally and through grants from donor agencies to meet up with increasing challenges, this training is focused mainly on building the capacity of organisations and individuals to be able to harness especially locally generated resources and be self sustaining while preparing themselves for grant opportunities from donor agencies

Topics:
• Identifying Organization’s Assets
• Setting fundraising Goals
• Identifying Individual and Institutional funders
• Choosing fundraising prospects
• Building fundraising team
• Mobilizing fund raising team
• Developing fundraising plan calendar
• Understanding the donor’s need

• Identifying problems, policy issues and solutions
• Setting Advocacy goals
• Setting SMART objectives
• Developing and delivery Advocacy messages
• Formal and informal decision making processes
• Building alliances and coalitions
• Self development skills and effective presentation
• Fundraising for Advocacy
• Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy efforts
• Spit fire strategies for Advocacy

• Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
• Monitoring and Evaluation as the key to continuous sustained development
• A logical approach to integrating M&E with planning and project management
• Qualitative and quantitative indicators
• Tools for collecting and analyzing data
• Tools for communicating findings
• Eliminating evaluators bias
• Evaluation frame work
• TORs for internal and external evaluators
• Managing Evaluations effectively and efficiently
• Criteria for measuring development impact and sustainability.