Modern Grants & Contribution Management: For Improving peer review and grant selection
 

One-day course from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Instructor:

• Dr J.R. McCullough, ProGrid Institute
• Fraser Barnes, ProGrid Evaluation Solutions
• Eric Alain, Eperformance Inc.

Cost:  $695 + GST
(includes training material and CD, certificate of participation, lunch, breakfast and refreshments) 

OBJECTIVES

Participants will be introduced to a modern approach to assessment within the G&C program life-cycle. Participants will be provided, and will learn, how to apply key tools and techniques that will ensure efficient and effective evaluation:

• fits within the larger context of G&C setup, design and evaluation considerations;
• applies an end-to-end assessment framework;
• reduces reviewer fatigue and turnover;
• establishes criteria that all stakeholders can agree on;
• deals with high volumes of submissions;
• brings the best choices to the forefront fairly, transparently and consistently;
• facilitates feedback and support to proponents;
• builds effective corporate memory for reporting and audits;
• improves program evaluation and comparison;
• reduces complaints and appeals.

DATES

• February 26, 2010 and April 14, 2010 - Ottawa, Ontario
• April 8, 2010 - Winnipeg, Manitoba
• April 29, 2010 - Edmonton, Alberta

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

How You Will Benefit

• Resolve evaluation & selection problems dealing with diversity, complexity or volume
• Improve your review / peer-review processes
• Improve comparability between competitions or other programs
• Align stakeholders, programs or portfolios with the goals of your organization
• Standardize your program evaluations and demonstrate impact with confidence

You Will Learn

• Effective techniques for assessing and deciding on submissions or proposals that
• Are diverse, complex or largely based on intangible factors.
• Are highly similar and need to be differentiated.
• Dovetail with other programs.
• Must provide multiple or diverse benefits (outcomes or impacts).
• Involve technology commercialization.
• Proven techniques for reducing reviewer/committee fatigue or turn-over
• Methods for ensuring an even application of criteria between reviewers or committees
• Best practices for providing feedback and support to proponents
• How best to track progress to support later stage funding
• Tips on how to assess progress in relation to achieving goals or objectives
• Tips for reducing complaints or appeals
• practical ways to improve program evaluation and compare impacts across programs
• How to accommodate increasing volume of applications or proposals 
• Approaches to building an effective corporate memory & audit trail.

The course leaders have many years experience in the design and implementation of G&C assessment frameworks for all levels of government, in Canada and internationally.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Managers and officers responsible for G&C programs; and
• Auditors and evaluators of G&C programs.

COURSE OUTLINE

Introductions, Objectives, Agenda

Cementing a Common Understanding of Modern G & C Management

• A departmental Reference Model for G&C Management - Focus on Assessment
• Common Process Steps and Functions
• Common Terminology

Addressing Current Challenges in Assessment, Decision-making and Performance Evaluation in G&C

• The importance of intangibles
• The difficulty in measuring intangibles
• approaches to measuring intangibles

Achieving Multiple Objectives Simultaneously

• Importance to two dimensions

Establishing A Framework for Assessment, Analysis, Decision-making and Performance Evaluation - G&C Case Study & facilitated exercises

• Foundation
• Information
• Evaluation
• Decision & Actions
• Whole Cycle Assessment

Applying in your Environment

Resources, software, services and tools