Project Cycle Management’ course

This is a course meant for the Nedas executives and volunteers interested in improving their management skills together with Leaders and representatives of other diaspora organisations, it's a three days duration course organised by Oxfam Novib and Glaro-Great Lakes Region Organisation.

Day 1; Planning:Introduction in the project cycle and participatory planning (OOPP): Day 2; Planning: selection of strategies, identification of risks, indicators: Day 3;Appraisal, monitoring and evaluation
Day 1 Planning:Introduction in the project cycle and participatory planning (OOPP)

- Introduction (objectives, programme) and expectations
- International consensus on development effectiveness

- Projects and the project cycle
- Introduction participatory planning (problem analysis-general)

- 2 Sub-groups: problem analysis on own cases
- Presentation and reflection

- 2 Sub-groups: objective analysis on own cases
- Presentation and reflection

Day 2; Planning: selection of strategies, identification of risks, indicators

- Recap and logbook
- Selection of strategies and intervention logic (incl. 2 subgroups)

- Introduction external factors and risks
- Sub-groups: identifying external factors/risks and presentation

- Introduction planning indicators and sources of verification
- Sub-groups: formulation of indicators/sources of verification

- Indicators continued

Day 3;Appraisal, monitoring and evaluation

- Recap and logbook
Exercise on appraisal of logical framework

- Introduction to monitoring: importance, link with planning, etc.

- Introduction to evaluation: importance, link with planning etc.

- Remaining questions
- Short evaluation of the training and closure