Project Planning and Management for NGOs

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.