Project Management

The key to project success

Use the project cycle approach to design and manage well-structured projects. Deliver results on time and within budget.

This new 10-day training course is a complete and comprehensive overview of project management. It covers the tools and processes you need to help you plan and manage your projects, at all stages of the project cycle and including operational needs and managing your team.

We provide you with flexible tools and techniques, and take a fresh look at attitudes and behaviour that enhance your capacity to address management issues.

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Course Outline

• Understand the project cycle management approach
• Identify the manager’s multiple roles
• Assess proposals and project appraisals
• Analyse and plan for multiple stakeholder needs
• Encourage rigour and transparency with the logframe approach
• Visit local organisations to discuss real life management challenges
• Plan resource allocation and logistics
• Explore day-to-day tools for monitoring and implementation
• Differentiate between budgeting and financial management
• Apply team roles in a team simulation
• Discuss key HR issues

Benefits for your Organisation

• Better structured projects using project cycle management
• Multi-stakeholder ownership through participatory processes
• Sound financial management for project sustainability
• Improved project quality and efficiency

What our participants say

“ It has been an extremely useful experience which helped bring out each participant’s experiences and skills to enhance their capabilities. The process adopted by IMA was very much “participant centered” and covered a wide range of practice-oriented topics. ”

Dr Henry Mohanraj,
Gramin Vikas Trust, India

Daily Course Objectives

• Day 1
  • Develop a common understanding of what development is trying to achieve
  • What is project management, and how does the project cycle fit into it
  • Key responsibilities for the project manager
  • Maximising your working environment
• Day 2
  • Identify different approaches to project management
  • Concepts and principles of participation
  • Be familiar with a range of participatory tools for project management, including their strengths and weaknesses
  • Define and analyse your project stakeholders
• Day 3
  • Define and devise SMART (specific, measurable, agreed upon, realistic and time-based) objectives
  • Construct a problem tree and convert to an objectives tree
• Day 4
  • Work with the Logframe: explain the linkages between objectives, indicators and assumptions
  • Select appropriate monitoring systems and information sources
  • Complete a logical framework with objectively verifiable indicators and means of verifications
• Day 5
  • Key components of an implementation plan
  • Implementation planning tools
  • Identify and assess risks using an established framework
  • Learn how to mitigate risk
• Day 6
  • Working with budgets
  • Key requirements for resource planning
  • Typical procurement processes
  • Reporting on financial information
• Day 7
  • Information needs for daily project management
  • Describe common monitoring processes
  • Explain the functions, features and key steps for developing a management information system
• Day 8
  • Manage recruitment and selection, and induction effectively
  • Manage project team roles and responsibilities to the best effect
• Day 9
  • Teamwork simulation exercise
  • Managing evaluations effectively
  • Project closure & methods for transferring learning to future projects
• Day 10
  • Review : assess selected case studies using key criteria

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