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Training on Project Management, Monitoring, and Evaluation

About the Program

Successful projects always aim at scaling up innovations to aid in solving problems affecting the beneficiary community/communities. The well-being of these communities depends on the ability of development organizations to deliver project results effectively and efficiently. Hence, to understand Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as a continuous management function that determines whether or not a project is making progress toward achieving its objectives, identifying implementation bottlenecks, and highlighting any unintended consequences from its activities is entirely elaborated in this program.

Program Objectives

• Design an effective project focused on the needs of the beneficiaries.
• Apply different tools, techniques and processes in project management.
• Understand the project management lifecycle in the context of development projects.
• Understand contextual issues in project management that are unique in development sector.
• Develop and implement an M&E system.
• Direct and coordinate project team to execute a development project successfully.
• Understand the core concepts in monitoring and evaluation of projects.
• Apply robust monitoring strategies to track project performance.
• Use M&E findings to improve and strengthen project.
• Effectively evaluate a project against the set objectives.

Module 1: Fundamentals of Project Management

• Defining projects
• Overview of project management
• The Triple Constraints in Project Management
• Functions of a Project Manager
• The project Lifecycle

Module 2: Project Identification and Design

• Context Analysis
• Needs Analysis
• Design of project intervention
• Development of project proposal
• Project appraisal

Module 3: Project Set Up and Planning Phase

• Stakeholder Management Plan
• Project Implementation Plan
• Project Management and Governance Structure
• Risk Management Plan
• M&E Plan
• Project Financial Plan

Module 4: Project Scope Management

• What is Project Scope?
• Project and Product scope
• Use of Work Breakdown Structure in Scope definition
• Scope Creep

Module 5: Project Time Management

• Activity Definition and Sequencing
• Activity Duration Estimating
• Activity Resource Estimation
• Schedule Development
• Optimizing schedule
• Schedule Control

Module 6: Project Resources Management

• Why is managing resources important?
• Managing Project Finances; Budgeting, Cost Estimation, Cost baseline, Monitoring Budgets and Expenditures
• Project Earned Value Analysis
• Managing the Supply Chain
• Human Resources Management
• Project Implementation
• Launching the Project

Module 7: Managing Project Implementation

• RACI Matrix
• Project Tracking and Adjustment
• Managing Issues and Risks

Module 8: Project Monitoring and Evaluation

• Monitoring strategies
• Data Collection for Monitoring
• Tools for monitoring and performance measurement
• Change and schedule control

Module 9: End – of – Project Transition Phase

• Types of Transitions
• Planning for closure
• Administrative and Financial Closure
• Project Learning
• Evaluation