Effective Management of Donor Funded Projects
Project management has become an organizational –wide core competency, nearly every project implementation staff/Team (PIT) regardless of discipline is involved in managing one or more projects. This training is designed to provide project staffs with knowledge and skills that cut across all types of projects.
The key to a successful project is in the planning and management: being clear on the objectives, deciding how to work together as a team, thinking through how to approach the scope, setting up a schedule and budget, understanding clearly what will make the deliverable acceptable to the client of the project. The easiest way to plan a project is to have those who will execute the work help with the planning. This has the added benefit that the team is ready to hit the ground running during execution.
This training involves you in a project leadership model that you can take back to your workplace and apply immediately. The course addresses all phases of a project: initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing.
Course Objectives.
Program Managers and officers attending the training will get hands on skills in the following areas;
Principles of modern Project Management
Project Initiation & Design
Relationships Among project management
Project planning Tools
Project Leadership
Project Risk management
Project integration management
Project scope management
Project quality management
Project Monitoring and Evaluation
Developing project M&E systems
Environmental Impact Assessment & Analysis
Project financing and Finance management
Project Evaluation
Project proposal writing
Project performance Reporting
Project closure
Project Fundraising
Project management Consultancy
Computer Applications in project management
Who should Attend?
The course is recommended for the following;
Departmental heads
Project or Departmental managers
Project officers
Staffs involved in making informed decision
Anyone involved in development projects
Anyone who aspires to be a good manager
Learning Contents
Characteristics of a project
Project management frameworks
Principles of project management
Project stakeholder’s management
Project integration management
Scope management
Time management
Project cost management
Human resource management
Project risk management
Project procurement management
Legal and institutional framework related to environmental impact assessment and audit process
Environmental impact assessment and social impact assessment
Project funding techniques
Fundraising raising planning cycle
Project management consultancy
Project monitoring & evaluation techniques
Result based management positioning
Setting up monitoring & evaluation systems
Project management information system
Project management software- M/S project 2010.
Way forward After the Training
Participants will develop a work plan through the help of facilitators that stipulates application of skills acquired in improving their organizations. ASPM will monitor implementation progress after the training.
Training Evaluation:
Participants will undertake a simple assessment before the training to gauge project monitoring & Evaluation knowledge, another assessment will be done after the training in-order to demonstrate knowledge gained through the training.