Proposal Form

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If you want to propose a new promising practice for documentation in the German Health Practice Collection, download this form, fill it in, scan it and submit it to the Managing Editor.

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Proposals for the German Health Practice Collection

Applicants, please note:

  1. Fill in every field of this application form and keep the information precise and short.
  2. Sign the form together with a representative of your partner organisation (both signatures are obligatory), scan and submit to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . In addition to the signed and scanned pdf-file, also send us the WORD-version, please.
  3. The information in this form will first be assessed by all interested GDC experts working in programmes in partner countries on our internet platform. Next, it will be ranked (in relation to other proposals) by the BMZ Task Force Health. The proposals with the highest ranking will be documented in the GHPC.
  4. We will post the relevant sections (i.e. items 2, 4, 5 and 6 of the below form) of all proposals as soon as they have been submitted to us at http://german-practice-collection.org/en/new-proposals .
  5. We will contact you as soon as the BMZ Thematic Team has taken its decision. This is likely to be at the end of January/start of February 2013.
  6. Should you have any question about the process, now or later, don’t hesitate to contact the GHPC Managing Editor at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

1. Date of Submission

2. Applicants

Name of GDC programme(s) submitting this application:

Name, title, organisation, email and phone number of main applicant from German Development Cooperation:

Name, title, organisation, email and phone number of main applicant from the partner organisation(s):

3. Responsible experts

Name one GDC expert and one partner expert who will be available

a) to provide the necessary information about the approach and its results to the writer

b) to read and comment – within 14 days - on the first and the final drafts of the publication

(Please note that individuals who made substantial contributions to the development of the programme and to its documentation will be credited as ‘Authors of the approach’. The professional writer will be credited as the ‘Writer’.)

Name, title, organisation, email of responsible partner expert:

Name, title, organisation, email and phone number of responsible GDC expert:

Name the GDC staff member who will be our contact for organizing the writer’s mission in your country, setting up meetings and visits to programme sites etc:

Name, title, organisation, email and phone number of responsible GDC expert:

4. Working title for the proposed publication


5. Why should this approach be documented in the German Health Practice Collection?

Describe in what ways this approach is a) innovative and conforms to the ‘state of the art’ in its field; b) contributes to raising the profile of German Development Cooperation in its field (refer to policy briefs, sector strategy papers and the GDC profile in health or social protection, respectively); c) meets the GHPC criteria of transferability to other contexts, participation and empowerment, gender-sensitivity, sustainibility


6. What evidence on outputs and outcomes is available to show that this approach is effective and that it has been scaled up to cover a significant proportion of the partner country’s population?

List all internal monitoring and evaluation reports, external evaluations and other studies that provide evidence for the effectiveness of this approach. Also, please explain how long this approach has been implemented and to what level/coverage it has been scaled up.


7. What kind of photo and film material is available and can be used for the documentation?

Please note that – should your programme be selected for documentation – you will be requested to provide 15 to 20 high resolution photographs of your programme context and your programme in action.


8. Which didactic or operational materials (manuals, guides, IEC materials, protocols) or similar can be made available for downloading from the online toolbox that will accompany the publication of this approach?


9. Which itinerary and schedule would you recommend for the writer who will visit your programme to do the necessary journalistic research for this GHPC report? Whom should he or she meet and interview? Which sites should he or she visit?

Give an indication of the places the writer charged with the documentation of this approach should visit, interviews to be done, the persons who should be interviewed and sites/events/activities that should be visited/witnessed and documented.


10. At which occasions, to which audiences and in which language (in addition to English) would your partner organisation and you like to distribute the resulting publication?

Name upcoming conferences and routine events and information channels through which you hope to distribute the publication:

Please note that we will contact you one year after the publication date to find out whether you were able to distribute the report as planned.

11. Up to which amount could your programme contribute to the costs of the writing of the English long and short version of the publication (30 expert days plus travel costs for a 5-day visit of your programme)?


12. If we sent you the complete final print files for the short and long versions of the publication in the language of your partner country, could you print the number of copies you require for the partner and the interested public in your country?


13. Signatures

Signature GDC representative

Signature representative of partner organisations

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