Project Planning and Management Skills
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| Courses |
Target Group |
Objectives |
| Proposal Writing |
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- Problems analysis
- Developing goal & objectives
- Developing indicator for success
- Develop activities plan to meet the objectives, schedule
- Developing monitoring and evaluating system
- Putting your project in a log frame format
- Defining resources needed & developing a budget
- Project presentation
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All levels of line managers and leaders of organizations.
Must know how to plan and have experience in project management and implementation. |
Participants can design projects based on structured problem analysis. |
| Project Planning and Design |
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- Project cycle
- Project planning steps
- Project design
- Project rational and strategy
- Linking Project Elements
- Indicators, External Factors and Assumptions
- Monitoring and Evaluation
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All levels of community development staff, managers and staff of NGOs, government ministries with planning responsibilities. |
Participants are able to improve group performance with an emphasis on structured particpatory decision making, planning, and project design. |
| Project
Monitoring and Evaluation |
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- Decide & plan a systematic monitoring system for project
- How to manage contingency
- Developing framework for
- Different types of indicators
- Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PME)
- Reporting & using PME data
- Application and special consideration in using PME result
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All levels of managers, and project officers. |
Participants can design and plan for monitoring and evaluation with the participation of beneficiaries. |
| Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA) |
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- Features of Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA)
- PRA and project cycle
- Techniques of PRA
- Structuring research & designing a research plan
- Designing tools and preparing for field work
- Carrying-out field work
- Analysis and preparation of PRA results
- Writing the PRA report
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Development officers or community members. |
Participants can design and implement basic research using PRA through mastering concepts of Participatory Action Research using practical tools and exercises. |
| Project Management |
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The main functions of project
management
- Planning process
- Implementing project
- Organizing work routine
Most important features of successful
management
- Motivation leadership style
- Participatory decision-making
- Time effectiveness
- Implications for project management style
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All levels of line managers and project officers of organization. |
Participants are able to fulfill their management functions in project and prepare responsibilities for project staffs. |
| Base Line Data Field Research |
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Five levels of action-oriented research
- Level 1: Preparation
- Level 2: Design
- Level 3: Data collection
- Level 4: Analysis and report writing
- Level 5: Follow-up
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This course is for all NGOs, government staff and private sector, who are practitioners and researchers as well as senior staff in research and development. |
Participants can develop and strengthen their capacity to design the research process, and conduct data collection and analysis. |
| Grass Root Advocacy Strategy |
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- Outline and concepts of the Participatory Action Research (PAR) process
- Identify PAR tools and techniques
- Organize plan for practicing field work
- Apply consolidation PAR result
- Understand the process of communication
- Identify and overcome communication barriers
- Understand mass media tools
- Understand the purpose of advocacy
- Identifying advocacy objectives
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All level of community staff, manager, advocacy officers of community base organizations, and activists. |
Participants are able to conduct basic grass root participation research and prepare a basic advocacy strategy plan and implementation. |