Participatory Project Planning and Management Course
Participatory Project, Planning & Management Training
Key Training Outcomes
The training is expected to help delegates better understand the need for proper project design, planning and providing project leadership. Delegates will be able to appreciate the phases in project management, develop a practical project idea and write comprehensive project proposal. It will also equip participants to come up with possible project funding sources, liaise with stakeholders in project idea initiation and develop fundraising initiatives.
Who should attend?
- Directors and Department Heads who lead the project planning process
- Project and Programe Managers
- Team leaders of a project
- Directors and Department Heads
- NGO staff, community leaders and officers involved in designing and implementing a project
- Fundraisers
- Founders and Board Members of NGO
Main Modules.
- Project Formulation
- Project Analysis
- Situation Analysis
- Needs Assessment
- Strategy Analysis
- Result based M&E
- Designing indicators
- Indicators definition
- Indicator metrics
- Linking indicators to results
- Indicator matrix
- Tracking of indicator
- Designing indicators reference sheets (IRS)
- M&E frameworks
- Logical Framework Approach
- LFA – Analysis and Planning phase
- Design of log frame
- Risk rating in log frame
- Horizontal and vertical logic in log frame
- Using log frame to create Activity and Budget schedules
- Using log frame as a project management tool
- Explain the role of M&E in institutional management
- Integrate M&E in the project management
- Impact, outcomes, outputs and activities
- Results framework
- Discourse on Theory of change
- Overview of theory of change
- Developing a theory of change
- Theory of Change vs Log Frame
- Case study: Theory of change
- M&E causal pathway
- Standards in planning, monitoring and evaluating for results
- Develop and implement key components of an M&E system
- Develop and implement performance plans
- M&E Planning
- Importance of an M&E Plan
- Documenting M&E System in the M&E Plan
- M&E Plan:
- M&E plan vs Performance Management Plan (PMP)
- Apply cost management approaches
- Use project management information software
- Communicate M&E results effectively
- Formulation of M&E systems
- Grants management
- Formulation of concept papers
- Project Proposal Overview
- An Orientation to Proposal Writing
- Understanding the Agency and the Funding Environment
- Needs-Based Program Development
- Writing the Problem Statement
- The logical Framework Approach
- Writing Goals, Objectives and Implementation Activities
- Writing the Evaluation Plan
- Creating Budget and Estimation
- Agency Capability and Final Steps
- Fundraising Management
- The Fundraising Planning Process Fundraising Planning: The Fundraising Audit
- Marketing Research for Fundraising
- Strategic Planning: The Fundraising Plan
- Donor Recruitment
- Donor Development
- Major Gift Fundraising
- Community Fundraising
- Corporate Fundraising
- International Donor funding principles & Strategies
- Branding and Campaign Integration
- Project Leadership & Governance
- Leadership in Organizations
- Organizational Change and Development
- Strategic Delivery of Change
- Gender and Leadership
- Complex project Leadership
- Values Ethics and Integrity in Leadership
- Strategic Leadership and Management
- Sustainability and Intelligence in Management
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 need assessment before the training to identify the knowledge gaps and also after the training , so as to monitor knowledge and skills gained through the training.
