Guidelines, terms of reference

Your office has resources to help you with your writing tasks. Some may be broad guidelines or style manuals that apply to a range of documents and publications; others are much more specific and will apply directly to the type of document, or the specific document, you will be writing. Still other external resources, like the Oxford Dictionary or the Chicago Manual of Style, are useful to have no matter what kind of writing you do.

Use these resource documents. They provide far more specific guidance and direction than this course can.

Remember, too, that your document is part of a conversation. Before you begin writing, find the rest of that conversation: the earlier project reports, funding proposals and other documents that have carried the project or programme to the point where it is now.

You will have to find the specific sources you need yourself, but do have a look at the following list of resources. The WHO Style Guide is available on your intranet.

General Guidelines	Specific Writing Guidelines
WHO Style Guide	Bulletin of the World Health Organization Monitoring and Evaluation Plan Guidelines (Guidelines for submission of an M&E plan for Global Fund grants) SEARO’s Guidelines for writing proposals WHO and UNAIDS resource kit for writing Global Fund HIV proposals Bloomberg Initiative To Reduce Tobacco Use grants program Global Health Grant from the Gates Foundation