Course Outcomes
Expected learning outcomes
- To create a Project Plan
- To set up and manage projects effectively
- To scope out the objectives and deliverables for a project
- To calculate the resources required for a project
- To manage and motivate a project team
- To establish systems for monitoring and evaluating projects
- To create a motivated project team
Curriculum
Course modules and outline
BASIC PRINCIPLES
- Development cooperation as part of foreign policy
- Increasing coordination and coherence
- Strategic planning sets the framework
- Cooperation has various forms
- Policies require action
- Towards a common language
- An integrated approach improves learning
- Project cycle - the life of a development intervention
- Level of participation varies
- Achieving sustainable development
- Policies must match
- Better value for money
- Institutional capacity makes a difference
- People-centered development emphasises socio-cultural aspects
- Participation enhances ownership
- Gender equality and participatory development
- Environment - not only ecology
- Technology must meet the needs
PROJECT DESIGN
- Situation analysis - the cornerstone of project planning
- Background studies and the analysis of stakeholders
- Problem analysis - key to the project’s framework
- Objectives reflect an ideal future
- Strategic choices begin by fixing the project purpose
- Planning with logic
- Logical framework is a practical tool
- Intervention logic states the strategy
- Assumptions must hold
- Indicators make the plan concrete
- Approach describes how
- Organisation determines roles and responsibilities
- Budget details financial framework
- Various roles of the project document
MONITORING
- How stakeholders monitor
- Integrated approach facilitates monitoring
- What is monitored and how
- Progress reports
- Annual Monitoring Reports
- Other performance monitoring
- Financial reports
EVALUATION
- What evaluation is
- Evaluation has two main purposes
- Different types of evaluations and other related assessments
- Integrated approach and the Logical Framework
- Issues to be evaluated
- General evaluation issues and their relation to the logical framework
- Factors ensuring compatibility and sustainability
- How to plan and carry out an evaluation
- Terms of Reference
- Planning of evaluation requires expertise
- Participation improves quality
- Demand for local evaluation capacity is increasing
- Evaluation report - the first step
- What to do with the evaluation report
- Dissemination of conclusions and recommendations
- Approval and operationalisation of recommendations
Target Audience
Who should attend?
- New Project managers
- Project team members wishing to move into project management roles
- Other operational staff wishing to learn project management tools and techniques
- Project planners
- Technical and engineering staff wishing to develop skills in managing projects
Why Attend
Key course benefits
Practical capacity building approach
Designed for government, NGOs and public institutions
Real-world African case studies
Certificate of completion
Applicable tools and templates
Interactive facilitation and exercises
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