Godfrey Senkaba discusses the 12 important issues a monitoring and evaluation specialist must look out for when reviewing donor grant Requests for Applications (RFAs) or Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) for emergency or development activities. These issues will help you understand, plan for, and design better monitoring and evaluation strategy and processes for the proposed project.  The 12 issues focus organization’s ability to design a competitive proposal, monitoring and evaluation requirements in the solicitation, and appropriate monitoring and evaluation approaches that should match with the technical and operational requirements of the proposed project. The specific issues include: ·       Capacity, and monitoring and evaluation roles, ·       Formats and templates to use, ·       Monitoring and evaluation plan, ·       Program theory/logic model, ·       Indicators, ·       Monitoring and evaluation budget, ·       Background and context information justifying the problem, ·       Activity objectives and frameworks to align to, ·       Target of change activity/project interventions, ·       Partnerships, and partnering on monitoring and evaluation, ·       Donor’s expressed review process, and  ·       Quality and consistency in the solicitation document. So, you get a complete understanding of how to add value to the proposal development process as a monitoring and evaluation specialist or officer, check out episodes 11 – prepositioning, 13 – proposal development, 14 – submission, and 15 – post submission. Be sure to share your feedback. 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/