This program aims to increase the capacity and skills of participants in project cycle management with a focus on project formulation and proposal and developing a Monitoring and Evaluation framework that ensures successful implementation of the project. At the end of the training, the participants should be able to identify the different stages of a project life cycle and their associated activities, apply appropriate tools for identification and assessment of the need of a project.
The participants will work on problem identification, situation analysis, stakeholder analysis, link inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and impact in a results chain (LFA), develop and apply LFA and other project planning and management tools, develop a monitoring and evaluation Framework for the project, and structure effective proposal documents that describe the full project cycle.
Contents
- Introduction to Project Management
- Understanding a Project and its Lifecycle
- Gender analysis based focused interventions
- Logical Framework Analysis – LFA
- Stakeholder analysis
- Developing problem tree
- Understanding Impact, outcomes, outputs, activities & inputs
- Indicators
- Sources of verification
- Assumptions
- Planning based on LFA (6 Step Planning
- Project WBS
- Time Estimating using PERT
- Critical Activities/Gantt Chart
- Building project budget (resource allocation)
- Project Risk Management
- Project Communication
- Project Implementation: (Project Management Game)
- What is Monitoring and Evaluation
- Using LFA for developing M&E framework
- Project dashboard reporting