What are the key considerations and components of developing your proposal concept? What approaches do you take? What are the other questions you try to answer?
What are the aims or researchable questions?
- What is the significance of the project to the reviewers and funders?
it has to be along their scope or area of interest eg . TB,HIV, COVID,maternal health, etc
- What will your project show that we do not know?
how does it fill the knowledge gap, or a context never explored
- Why is the information you collect worth knowing?
how does it fill the knowledge gap,
- How will we know the conclusions are valid?
Quality and strength of methodogy , strength of your research team,
1. Preliminary sections
• Title page
• Abstract
• Table of content
• Glossary
2. Research background and discussion
• Research problem and the rational for study
• Discussion/literature review and justification
• Objectives
• Significance
• Scope and limitation of the research area
3. Methodology
• Methodology , design and methods
• Data analysis
4. Programme/ management
• Ethical consideration
• Potential risk or problem
• Research programme- time frame, budget resources, health and safety consideration
5. Supplementary sections
• References
• Appendices
Dr Sylvie's key questions are:
- What are the aims or researchable questions?
- What is the significance of the project to the reviewers and funders?
- What will your project show that we do not know?
- Why is the information you collect worth knowing?
- How will we know the conclusions are valid?
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