Designing and Planning Projects (3 days)

Mastering fundamental project design skills

Next course

• 5 – 7 July 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This course is organised in partnership with the Serve Better Consultancy, Malaysia

Registration and course fees

Registration and payment deadline: 2 July 2013.

Course fee: CHF 975 / MYR 3300

Above fees are in Swiss francs (CHF) or Malaysian Ringgit (MYR) and include tuition, training materials and handouts, lunch and refreshments during course breaks, and a course certificate.

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10% discount for returning students (within 12 months since the last course) or additional course participants from same organisation.

To register, please fill in the online registration form, or download the form and send it to us by email. For further inquiries, please contact us.

Course overview

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If you fail to plan, you plan to fail! This participatory project management course focuses on the design and planning of projects in the development sector. It draws on field and HQ experience and good practices from international organisations in numerous countries and contexts in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The course delivers knowledge, practical skills and tools to work successfully with local communities in the development and implementation of projects. The main tool used during this course is the logical framework approach, which provides a structured model for identifying expected results as well as the activities and inputs needed to accomplish them. The course provides tools to analyse problems and stakeholders, define objectives and determine activities based on stakeholder needs. It also introduces the implementation of a monitoring system. Participants learn how to best use the various tools with case studies and through group exercises.

Who should attend

The course will benefit persons who have some experience in project management, but not yet obtained comprehensive training, in particular:

• Project managers
• Programme coordinators
• Key HQ and field staff involved in designing and planning projects
• Managers supervising project development and implementation

How you and your organisation will benefit - Learning Objective

At the end of the course, participants know how to plan a project, how to programme its activities and how to design and use its monitoring system following the Result-Based Management approach and using the logical framework as a tool.

Course programme

Day 1

A. Project design: Concept

• Why Results-Based Management (RBM)
• Introducing the RBM concept
• Defining the results chain: Impact, outcome, output, input activities
• Designing a project with the RBM approach

B. Process Step 1: Problem Identification and analysis

• Aim of problem identification
• Problem analysis: importance and challenges
• Using the problem tree tool
• Stakeholder Analysis

Day 2

Step 2: Choosing the operational strategy

• Defining priorities according to the problem analysis
• Linking priorities to the mandate of the organization

Step 3: Designing the project

• Introduction to Logical Framework Approach (LFA)
• Formulating project objectives
• Defining project activities

Day 3

Step 3: The Intervention logic (continued)

• Analysing risks (assumptions) linked to the project
• Identifying indicators and baseline

Step 4: Planning the project implementation

• Sequencing and scheduling project activities
• Planning the resources (human, financial and logistic)
• Planning a successful project monitoring system