Help offered for proposal writing

How to write proposals and tenders will be the focus of a community education course next month.

Tutor Amelia Borofsky, who planned and developed the community education programme at the Cook Islands Tertiary Training Institute (CITTI), said the course will help demystify the process of writing formal applications.

“The idea came about because a lot of civil society and private sector organisations are expected to know how to write these complicated government proposals.”

How to write a good proposal is something that can be taught, she said.

“Writing is not an intrinsic skill but a learned skill. The language required in a lot of these proposals is not intuitive and can be bureaucratic.”

The course will cover both proposal writing and tender writing, so targets those in civil society organisations and private sector organisations who are seeking project funding or bidding on projects.

“This is also coming off the back of the Development Partners Meeting and wanting to bring more people to the table who might not feel empowered to do this work,” said Borofsky.

“Participants in this community education course need to bring their own projects to work on as it will be a hands-on course reviewing and discussing their proposals and covering some general writing techniques.”

The $50 course will run Monday March 3, Wednesday March 5 and Friday March 7 from 4-6pm at CITTI’s Ngatangiia campus.

To enrol or ask questions about the course, call CITTI on 22 628, come by and pick up an enrolment form or email Amelia Borofsky ( aborofsky@gmail.com) or Violet Tisam ( violet.tisam@citti.edu.ck).

source: http://www.cookislandsnews.com/national/item/44599-help-offered-for-proposal-writing