Godfrey Senkaba discusses the critical role for monitoring and evaluation specialists play in helping their organizations’ new business development or proposal development efforts. He outlines the 7 best tips as must-do’s for evaluation specialists during the prepositioning phase of a grant project proposal development process. The 7 tips below are discussed with practical examples:  ·       Research the donor M&E interests and/or priorities. ·       Conduct an Organization DME Capacity assessment ·       Review of the capacity of the local country office or local project implementer ·       Provide technical /quality review of the needs assessment design and analysis. ·       Assess/document current project/s evidence of impact. ·       Gather ‘market’ DME intelligence. ·       Be present/maintain M&E technical visibility.  You need to check out episodes 12 - positioning, 13 – proposal development, 14 – submission, and 15 – post submission, to get a complete understanding of how to add value to the proposal development process as a monitoring and evaluation specialist or officer. Connect with Godfrey Senkaba: Website: https://www.mandeboost.com  Email: [email protected]  Twitter: https://twitter.com/senkaba_g  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/godfrey-senkaba-32452428/