Project Management Cycle with focus on Project design and proposal writing

Overview

This course provides an in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience on project management cycle. Its focus will lie in identification of needs through various assessment models, planning phases and methodologies, project implementation and its challenges and operational modalities. The course will also provide participants with knowledge on monitoring and evaluation of activities/outputs/outcomes in following the international standard of results-based management and financial management, including budget planning, resource mobilization, financial expenditures and reporting for better accountability and transparency .

 

Training methodology

The course will be delivered through a mix of theoretical and practical approaches. Participants will be presented with methods and tools used in the Project Cycle Management. Through group discussions and individual work they will be given a chance to apply their knowledge to their own work. The focus of the practical exercise will be on improving participants’ skills in proposal writing, as such they will be given a chance of individual consultations with trainers before presenting their work to other participants.

 

Who should attend?

Project managers and project development officers as well as Center’s staff who are involved in project design and management.

 

Course objectives

By the end of the course, participants will:

• Understand the importance of project design and proposal writing and the challenges faced in this regard
• Get introduced to Project Cycle Management (planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation)
• Gain an understanding of Results Based Management
• Learn about the principles and components of project design and proposal writing
• Become familiar with some Monitoring and Evaluation tools

 

Main topics

• The Project Cycle
• Project planning
• Needs assessment methodologies
• Identifying ‘problems’ and prioritising solutions
• Linking project aims, outcomes, and activities
• Monitoring and evaluating projects
• Financial management of the project and budgeting
• Results Based Management
• Reporting
• Identifying and responding to changes in project context
• Proposal writing

 

Number of participants  20

Duration  Three days

Documentation / Certification  Certificate of training by RASIL-International Humanitarian City and KDC
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