Program Overview

Developing Health Proposals Using DIME Skills & Tools

Course Information

• Dates: 05 – 10 January 2026, Monday to Saturday
• Time: 9.00am – 6.00pm (SGT)
• Venue: MD1 Tahir Foundation Building, National University of Singapore

Overview

Upon successfully completing this course, participants will be able to design and put together a health proposal to respond to a donor agency’s request for proposals (RFPs), focusing on innovative elements for a strong competitive application.

Participants will acquire skills in conceptualizing, designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating a health project. They will work in small groups for each stage of the DIME (Design, Implementation, Monitoring & Evaluation) cycle. Active learning will be encouraged via peer critique of each other group’s completed templates.

At the conclusion, participants' groups will develop a responsive proposal, ready for submission to a donor’s RFP.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

1. Apply situation analysis skills to conduct a gap analysis to pitch a compelling business case for a health project to a potential donor.
2. Develop needs assessment skills to create a mixed methods plan, blending qualitative and quantitative methodologies, to assess, triangulate, and prioritise health needs within communities.
3. Design a theory of change to chart a strategic roadmap illustrating clear pathways towards desired outcomes and change.
4. Construct a logic model with realistic, appropriate, and measurable project objectives, ensuring alignment between interventions and desired outcomes.
5. Create an implementation management work plan detailing Year 1 and outlining broader plans for subsequent years.
6. Develop a monitoring framework to systematically collect, organise, analyse, and track monitoring data, enabling real-time assessment of project progress and informed decision-making.
7. Develop key elements of a project evaluation plan to assess coverage, quality, outcomes, and sustainability.

Who Should Attend?

• Professionals in the Healthcare Industry

Entry Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with relevant public health related work experience
• Preference for those with programme design, monitoring and evaluation
• Candidates with other qualifications and experience may be considered on a case by case basis, subject to approval

Assessment & Certification

This is a SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) approved course. As part of SSG funding requirements, participants have to achieve at least 75% attendance and pass all assessment(s)/examination(s).

An electronic certificate will be issued to all participants who complete the course:

• Certificate of Competence – Attain a ‘C’ grade or above and meet a minimum of 75% attendance
• Certificate of Participation – Attain a grade lower than ‘C’ and meet a minimum of 75% attendance

Course Instructor

• Associate Professor Sri Chander S/O Tikamdas Nebhraj Assoc Prof Chander has extensive experience in the design, monitoring, evaluation of large-scale public health programmes from his 30 years of global health experience as the Asia-Pacific Regional Health Advisor of World Vision in 17 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. He now focuses on the development and teaching of global health modules for Master of Public Health (MPH) students, medical undergraduates, non-medical undergraduates and health leaders from the Asia. He has a medical degree from the National University of Singapore and a MPH degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Course Fee

• All enrolled candidates will also be required to pay a Student Services Fee of S$25.70.
• Self-Sponsored participants can use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for or offset course fees. SkillsFuture Credit claim has to be submitted to SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) within 60 days before course commencement. SSG will not allow claims to be made after the first day of the course.
• The University reserves the right to review and adjust the course fees and make changes to the programme structure and requirements as necessary and accordingly without prior notice.
• Prices stated above are inclusive of 9% GST.