CARTA Grant Proposal Writing Workshop in Nairobi

The 2018 CARTA Graduate workshop held at Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya from October 1-6, 2018 coordinated by Hakan Billig from the University of Gothenburg. 

I acquired valuable knowledge on research grant proposal writing  from world-class researchers    and experienced facilitators: Hakan Billig from the University of Gothenburg  was the the Coordinator of the training while the other facilitators are Susan Bondy of the University of Toronto, Paramjit Gill from the University of Warwick, Elizabeth Dyke from the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research, Violet Naanyu from Moi University, Flavia Matovu from Makerere University, Adamson Muula from the University of Malawi, Boniface Nyagah from DAAD, Charles Obonyo from KEMRI, Mosa Moshabela from University of KwaZulu-Natal and Florah Karimi, Duncan Gatoto, Damazo Kadengye, Boniface Ushie who are all from APHRC.

It was a great opportunity to be one of the thirteen (13) post-doctoral early career researchers that gained skills to develop a successful and substantial proposal for a personal award.

On the day the fourth day, we received feedback on our draft proposals from facilitators and external reviewers. with this, we are ready to submit the reviewed proposal to funders.

At the end of the workshop, all the Learning objectives of the workshop were achieved  in a great deal: 

LO1 -To write a proposal that addresses a research question that is in the participant’s area of expertise and that they want to answer

1. LO2 - To understand how to structure and write the proposal including literature review, methodology, methods including analysis plans, and impact plans
2. LO3 - To understand the process of developing a research proposal including identifying funding sources, tailoring the proposal to funding sources, drawing on expertise, developing a budget, management plan and dissemination strategy.
3. LO4 - To seek and receive critique of research ideas and plans and to integrate feedback into a proposal

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PhotoCredit: Eunice Kilonzo @Eunicekkilonzo 

Source: see more detail here CARTA News: GRADUATE WORKSHOP 2018 October 1, 2018