Services & Products List

February 2009



BDCD provides more than 70 services supporting proposal development, investor relations, marketing, communications, funding planning and forecasting, library, information and knowledge sharing, reviews, and capacity building.
Writing and Editing
We offer a number of communication products and services. Unsure which one is for you? Click here. Complete the request for service for further assistance here.
  1. Policy briefs – provide us with your report and we will write, design and print the brief. Click here for sample.
  2. Lessons learned briefs – captures the key insights from major projects. Provide us with your report and we will write, design and print the brief. Click here for sample.
  3. Issues briefs – Carving out a new area of work? This product will help communicate the issues. Provide us with your manuscript or literature review and we will write, design and print the brief. Click here for sample.
  4. Brochures, Center Annual Report, flyers, factsheets – writing, editing and design support provided. Click here to visit our publications database for numerous samples.
  5. Studies, reviews, proceedings, manuals, etc. – we will edit, design and print these products for you. Click here.
  6. Proposals – one of our many proposal development services involves editing major proposals
  7. Media/news releases – Got a story the world needs to hear? We will write the release and work with international media to get the story a high profile. Click here for sample.
    For news of national interest, we will help you edit your release. Click here for sample.
  8. Nominations and awards – we will research and write nominations for major awards
  9. Investor update – a personalized update of Center business to investors and prospects. Click here.
  10. Op-eds (opinion pieces) of the position of the Center on areas of key global concern. We will research and write. Click here.
  11. Write journalistic style stories of the work of the Center. The best stories about our work are told through our beneficiaries. Click here for sample.
  12. Coordinate Center communications priorities. Click here for sample.
Proposal Development and Coordination
A one-stop shop supporting your needs. Click here for an overview of the process for proposal development, review and submission.

We provide assistance of all types to help you develop your proposal – including review, advice on how to develop, editing, development of key areas of the proposal, corporate information, etc. You can outline your concept for a proposal with the prelim concept and, once you get the go-ahead, follow through to develop the full concept note.
  1. Review of the proposal before submission to ensure that the proposal is linked to the interests of the investor, the proposal is persuasive and convincing in marketing the project, and generally that the proposal is of a quality sufficient to be considered for funding.
  2. Support for development and inclusion of GIS related information and resources supporting proposals
  3. Coordination support for large proposals. We will develop and manage the proposal development process for you. Click here for a sample workplan.
  4. Editing of proposals
  5. Proposals database – features nearly 600 proposals and a key starting point to develop your next proposal. Click here for database.
  6. Find out what proposals are under development now. Click here for proposal database.
  7. New grants and submissions – we produce a regular newsletter 'Investing in WorldFish & Our Partners' that is also a useful resources for project summaries. Click here for Investing News.
  8. Access to proposal development resources through Fishnet, our intranet site. Click here for proposal development resources.
  9. Guidelines and other resources specific to different investors. Click here for investor page on Fishnet, our intranet site, with information on over 50 investors. Because guidelines sometimes change quickly, contact BDCD before you write a proposal.
  10. ARGUMENT BANK – a compilation of fish facts and figures supporting proposal development. Click here to access.
  11. Signoff procedure – forms and procedure once your proposal is complete. Click here.
  12. Develop and organize a virtual space for proposal development
Finding Funding Opportunities
We provide a comprehensive range of services to help you identify funding for your project
  1. Comprehensive analysis of NEW opportunities with investors based on review of all grants funded by them, submissions, and projects under development. Click here for analysis.
  2. Analysis of investors most likely to fund specific thematic areas like climate change, gender, governance, food security, health, etc. Click here for sample analysis.
  3. Identification of major new programs nationally and regionally that represent strategic opportunities for new partnering and funding opportunities for WorldFish work. Click here for sample.
  4. Compendiums featuring over 500 funding opportunities for Asia, Africa and LAC, and a special edition featuring fellowship opportunities. Click here.
  5. Access two of the world's most comprehensive searchable funding databases with 100s of opportunities. Click here.
  6. Email alerts for calls for proposals - describing the opportunity and how it relates to the work of the Center and partners. Click here.
  7. Need more ideas? Find out how your colleagues are accessing funding by clicking here.
  8. Still need help? Send us a summary of your intended project using our prelim concept and we will assist you to funding.
Investor Relations
Coordination of investor relations at the global level, strategic meetings with investors, provision of briefing material on key intelligence on investors, research and preparation of detailed analysis of investor interests and strategic opportunities to support WorldFish work, and much, much more.
  1. Investor briefs featuring contacts, priorities, funding history, opportunities for funding, partnering and other key intelligence (available upon request to staff who are planning meetings with investors). Click here for sample.
  2. A compilation of all key information and opportunities with all our key current and prospective investors. Contains all the key information you also need to know on Center funding, countries we are working in, etc. Click here.
  3. Leads on specific investors and introductions to pursue the relationship. Click here.
  4. Investor country priorities and overlap with our target countries. Click here.
  5. Database of latest intelligence from interactions with investors. Click here.
  6. Resource base of more than 50 of our investors, featuring strategies, white papers, guidelines, and much more. This resource base is located on Fishnet, our intranet site. Click here to access.
  7. Development and coordination of extraordinary reports to investors based on their requests
  8. Customized updates to investors including regular delivery of key communications products to meet their interests. Click here for sample.
  9. Hold meetings with investors and also coordinate meetings for WorldFish upon request
  10. Comprehensive analysis of NEW opportunities with investors based on review of all grants funded by them, submissions, and projects under development. Click here for analysis.
  11. Analysis of investors most likely to fund specific thematic areas like climate change, gender, governance, food security, health, etc. Click here for sample analysis.
Forecasting and Planning
Services here include provision of the medium-term funding outlook over the next four years, support for pipeline management, monitoring and forecasting core funds, tracking Center Key Performance Targets for growth, regular reporting to the Board as well a monthly synthesis of trends and issues impacting our business.
  1. Development and update of web-based medium-term funding outlook which provides overview of secured funding, and pipeline funding (submissions and proposals under development) for the next five years for the Center, regions and disciplines. This is the Center's key planning tool to manage the pipeline. Click here.
  2. Monitoring and forecasting of core funding. Click here.
  3. Monitoring and reporting on KPG for growth. Click here for analysis.
  4. Coordinate and report on pipeline updates
  5. Semi–annual reports to the Board on the medium-term funding outlook for the next four years for the Center
  6. Regular email update of trends and issues impacting WorldFish business. Click here for sample.
Visitor Program
  1. Organization and coordination of visitor program to HQ
Library, Information and Knowledge Management
  1. Develop and update the WorldFish publications database (database was started in 2007 when BDCD was formed). Click here.
  2. Info-database of other useful publications, presentations and resources. Click here.
  3. Literature searches prepared on request. This is a key starting point for new projects, proposals or writing papers for referred journals.
  4. Document delivery – if you send us the reference, we will track down and deliver to you a scanned copy of the full paper
  5. Support the Center to identify gaps in services and support for Knowledge Management and coordinate strategy and plan to address needs. Click here for an analysis of strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities to improve knowledge management and sharing within WorldFish and with partners.
  6. 'Alert' newsletter of new publications. Sent quarterly to over 2000 partners, and stakeholders. Click here.
  7. Organize and pay for online access to all key journals for Center use. Click here.
  8. Provide access to several bibliographic databases related to WorldFish business. Click here.
  9. Contribute to the fish resources component of the CGIAR virtual library. Click here.
  10. Develop the monthly Center newsletter that goes to staff and Board members. Click here.
  11. BDCD also works with more than 12 different information brokers to communicate WorldFish’s work, including Google Books, IDs, Sci Dev CGSecretariat, etc.
Website
  1. Development, content and management of corporate website. Click here.
  2. Design and development of corporate intranet site (Fishnet). Click here.
  3. Design of regional websites. Click here (Mekong) and here (SA).
  4. Design of websites supporting major projects/programs. Click here.
Branding, Multi-media, Design, Posters and Exhibits
  1. Brand manual - development and management of the corporate brand. Click here - 4MB PDF.
  2. Database of images. Click here.
  3. Design and production of streamers for conferences and meetings. Click here.
  4. Design, production and management of exhibits for large conferences
  5. Design and production of science posters. Click here.
  6. Design and production of CD products
  7. Support for video production. Click here.
  8. Design of newsletters. Click here.
Media Relations
  1. Write media releases and coordinate international media relations. For sample release, click here. Provide editorial support for national media releases. BDCD has supported tremendous sustained growth in media attention over the last two years. Click here to view trend.
  2. Provide advice and support on story development. Click here.
  3. Tips on how to be interviewed by a journalist, as well as a toolkit of other useful communications material and resources. Click here.
Training
  1. Develop and run courses on how to develop a successful proposal
  2. Develop and run courses on how to update a website using CMS
  3. Develop and run courses on specialized communications courses
Investor Commissioned Reviews
  1. Manage large reviews like the EPMR, and provide advice and coordination as requested for investor reviews of projects and programs.
The BDCD Team
To meet the people behind the Business Development & Communications Division, please click here. Please feel free to contact the team member you think may be able to help you with your request, or send an email to WorldFish-BDCD@CGIAR.org.