This Short Executive Programme equips professionals from public, private, and development sectors with practical, consultancy-level skills to access international funding. Participants learn to identify funding opportunities, design competitive proposals using real donor formats, build long-term fundraising systems, and strategically integrate AI tools to enhance proposal quality and donor alignment.

Reasons to follow

• Design competitive, fundable project proposals that meet international donor expectations
• Turn development ideas into winning funding concepts
• Build consultancy-level skills for strategic project design and fundraising
• Use AI and real-world tools to strengthen proposal quality and impact

Course objectives

• Build awareness of how participants’ organisations can make use of international funding systems to contribute to regional and national activities.
• Strengthen participants with skills to navigate these funding systems to plan how their organisations’ development strategies can align with them.
• Equip professionals with consultancy-level skills to design, develop, plan, and budget successful project proposals.
• Guide participants in creating their Final assignment, in which they select an actual relevant tender and use their acquired skills to draft an actual project proposal.