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It is very important to list out only those activities that are relevant to your project objectives. If your project objectives are not related to your project activities, it only means that you are not clear in what you want to do with your project and the donor agency can just reject your proposal entirely.
In order to identify, plan and list the activities in a proposal, below are some tips:
- Refer to previous project proposals (either of your organization or others) and look for what activities they have proposed. Select the most relevant of them and list them in your current proposal
- If you have heard or read about a successful project or any best practice or lessons learned from another project, you can also adapt it as an activity in your proposal. In fact, you can mention that you found a certain activity successful in another project and you wish to replicate it here and donors will always be happy to fund the replication of previously successful activities
- Don’t forget to mention about those activities that the community members have identified when you initially consulted them. Their ideas can be very basic but they can be very useful. You can also mention in the proposal that the idea for such activities originated from the community itself.
