EFFECTIVE RESEARCH PROPOSAL WRITING

ELEVATE YOUR RESEARCH PROPOSAL AS A MASTER'S OR PHD STUDENT.

Despite the widespread practice of writing and publishing research papers, many graduate students face difficulties in properly organizing, structuring, and defending their proposals due to limited skills and resources.

This course offers valuable guidance from experienced scholars to help you overcome these challenges. Whether you're a beginner or have experience, this course will provide you with easy-to-follow steps and tips to improve your proposal writing skills.

Say goodbye to frustration and countless hours of confusion and take advantage of this opportunity to enhance your research skills and advance your academic or professional career.

 

COURSE OUTCOMES

  • Develop creative writing skills and presentation skills
  • Practice and develop skills for presenting (defending their papers in a panel)
  • Write clear and persuasive project proposals
  • Present research proposal and defend to an academic audience
 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • An overview of Master’s /PhD research proposal requirements
  • Introduction to research proposal writing
  • Effective Literature Review and conceptual framework
  • Research Methodology
  • Writing references/citations
  • Presentation /defending your proposal to a panel
 

COURSE STRUCTURE

In general, course hours will be divided between lectures, student-facilitated discussion and presentation of their research topics, independent work in preparation of research proposals, facilitated writing sessions, presentations and discussions. The course will be interactive and engaging. Participants are required to bring their sample research proposals which through this course, they will develop them into effective proposals to be submitted to their respective institutions.

 

DURATION

This is a three weeks, course, two weeks at the TCDC centre and the final week will be online/blended as participants will be working on their proposals and presentation of their proposals.

 

FEE FOR THE COURSE

Tuition Fee - Face to face $ 295
Tuition Fee - Online $ 195
Full board in a single room (Meals and accommodation) $ 455
Full board in a shared room (Meals and accommodation) $ 335
Hostel Quad (Meals and accommodation) $ 142

In the words of others

VINCENT OTIENO

‘’The classes are very interactive. Not for any moment, I have felt like I was afraid to approach my trainer or facilitator whenever I had difficulties. I felt like my friend was standing in front of me and teaching me a new method. Anything that I needed as a foreign student at MS TCDC was there”
Alumnus - BA in Governance and Development

HELLEN WILSON LUTTA

‘‘It has been good for me as a project manager, to learn different ways of resource mobilization and how I can improve my skills in proposal writing. This is a very important course that I can recommend for every project or program manager as it is a very important skill that managers need to know how to mobilize resources."
Project Manager - Marie Stopes Tanzania
Richard Olong

RICHARD OLONG

“There is a big impact that I have seen not only from my perspective but also the perspective of my fellow participants. A lot of them have moved forward to develop resource mobilization strategies, and some of them are using those skills to engage with relevant donors to access funding. I know quite a few that have accessed funding as a result of that training - for instances our grantees in Rwanda, Zambia and Malawi who have been able to use those skills to access funds from GIZ.’’
Regional Programme Manager OXFAM

ISAKWISA MBYALE

Climate change reporting is important because it directly relates to human life. Therefore, we report it to make sure that the community and government take adaptive measures against climate change. Isakwisa participated in our course: 'Climate Change Reporting'
Journalist at HighlandsFM_92.5

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