Grantsmanship: Professor Layi Erinosho or

Grantsmanship
Professor Layi Erinosho
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Introduction
 This presentation will focus on grantsmanship including the
key criteria that are used to assess research proposals.
 Grantsmanship is defined as the capacity of researchers to
attract funds from prospective funders towards their pet
projects.
 It is simply about attracting grants for research projects from
various sources
Outline of the Presentation
 The presentation will discuss:
 Accessing Research Grants
 Scaling the first hurdle
 Review Process for the short-listed proposals
 Scoring proposals
 Criteria for Selection of proposals
 Concluding Remarks
Accessing Research Grants
• Depends on having:
• Adequate knowledge of the funding agencies
• Adequate knowledge of the research agenda of the funding
agencies
• Adequate knowledge of their general and specific guidelines
for proposal development
• Adequate knowledge of past proposals that have received
funding from the targeted agencies
Scaling through the First Hurdle
 Depends on:
 Strict compliance with the basic guidelines e.g. using
prescribed form, or forwarding letter of intent etc.
 Strict compliance with such mundane things like the
prescribed number of words for each section of the proposal.
 Strict compliance with guide on submission of proposal –
whether by email or courier etc.
Scaling Cont’d
• Strict compliance with the composition of the research team
• Strict compliance with deadline for submission of proposal
• Strict compliance with budget limit for the round of the
competition
• Strict compliance with other guidelines such as inclusion of
the CVs of members of the team etc.
• Please note that only those that comply are shortlisted for
consideration
Review Process for the Short-listed
Proposals
 All short-listed proposals are usually reviewed by two or
three experts
 Reviewers are guided by a scoring format
 In general, proposals are assessed on the basis of how well
the research teams demonstrate clarity on the:
 Statement of the problem including a review of the relevant
literature
Review Process Cont’d
• General and specific objectives of the study
• Conceptual framework of the study
• Hypotheses to be tested where applicable.
• Methodology
• Analysis of data
• Significance of the study
• Ethical consideration
• Timeline
• Budget
Scoring of Proposals
• Total mark s/point are often set at 100 with the following as guide
to the reviewers:
• Statement of the Problem (25 points)
• General and Specific objectives (5 points)
• Conceptual framework (15 points)
• Hypotheses (5 points)
• Methodology (25 points)
• Analysis of data (10 points)
• Ethical consideration (5 points)
• Timeline (5 points)
• Budget (5 points)
Scoring Cont’d
 Each assessor is expected to sum the scores for each
proposal and rank them in order of performance
 Each assessor will render the final report to the funder for
consideration
 A Scientific Committee (SC) is set up to consider and take
decision on assessors’ reports
Criteria for Selection
 Merit (based on the top scorers in the competition
 Thematic Area(s)
 Gender
 Geography
 Other Extraneous factors such as bending over to fund one
or two that not very good due to the poor skill of proposers
but have potentials
Domestic Sources of Funds
 Federal Ministries: e.g.  Support projects on health
FMoH, Women Affairs, and the social sciences
 Government Parastatals
 Nigerian Labor Congress
 Missions like The Catholic
Mission
 Multinational Companies
Shell etc
 Pathfinder, CEDPA etc
International Sources
check their web site by just adding www.who.org etc
 Bilateral  USAID, CIDA, DFID etc
 Multilateral  WHO, UNESCO,
 International not for profit UNICEF, World Bank
 Foreign off shore for profit
UNFPA etc
NGOs with head office  Ford Foundation,
abroad Rockefeller Foundation,
 Regional Organizations
John D and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation etc
 Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation
 CODESRIA,
 African Union etc
Please note that the journey to successful
grantsmanship is always a long one
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