Project Management
Course code: 7STI-401
Course Description
A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning, end, scope, and resources. Project management involves the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet specific requirements. This course covers the fundamental concepts of project management, emphasizing the project cycle management and logical framework approach. Monitoring and evaluation are integral components, ensuring that projects are not only initiated and executed effectively but also assessed for relevance, feasibility, and sustainability.
Program Benefits
- Understand the role of project management and key activities at each stage.
- Know the principles of project cycle management and the logical framework approach.
- Critically review the role of financing proposals.
- Assess the potential relevance, feasibility, and sustainability of a case study financing proposal and identify areas for improvement.
- Describe the role of the logical framework in project monitoring and evaluation.
- Use the logical framework to develop activities and resource schedules.
- Create a project design proposal using the logical framework approach.
- Manage project time, people, and other resources effectively.
- Conduct monitoring and evaluation of a project.
- Understand the process of project revision.
Topics Covered
- Basic Concepts of Project Management
- Phases of Project Cycle Management (PCM)
- Project Initiation
- Project Planning
- Project Execution
- Project Monitoring & Control
- Project Closure
- Project Design and Analysis Using Logical Framework Approach
- Using Logical Framework to Develop Activities and Resource Schedules
- Project Design Proposal Using LFA
- Management of Project Time, People, and Resources
- Monitoring and Evaluation of a Project
- Project Revision
Who Should Enroll?
This program is ideal for project planners and managers, donor agencies, consultants, project managers, and individuals involved in the implementation of development projects.
Training Methodology
The training sessions will be delivered through a brief conceptual presentation in the form of participatory lectures using PowerPoint presentations, group discussions, and lab exercises in groups and cases.
Duration: Five days (40 hours)
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