Project Cycle Management Workshop & Coaching in Dubai

Project Cycle Management Workshop & Coaching conducted in Dubai over 3 days during 24-26 October 2015 in Dubai, UAE. The participants were from UNDP and GIZ.

Contents covered during the program: 

• Understanding Project Cycle Management
• The Project Cycle
  – Policy Setting
  – Identification
  – Formulation – Appraisal
  – Contracting – Commitment
  – Implementation (Monitoring and Mid-Term Evaluation & Final Evaluation)
• Limitations of Project Cycle Management Instruments and Procedures
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Problem Analysis
• Analysis of Objectives
• Strategy Analysis
• Identify the Intervention logic and Assumptions
• Factors Ensuring Sustainability
• Objectively Verifiable Indicators (OVIs)
• Assumptions and preconditions
• Source of Verifications (SOVs)
• Procedures to develop and application of the logical framework
• A Project Design Methodology in 10 steps
• Indicators: How to use them as a Management Tool?
  – Indicators for Monitoring
  – Performance Indicators (Action and Results)
  – Indicators of Reaction
  – Direct and Indirect Indicators
  – Indicators for Evaluation
  – Formulation of Indicators
• Activity and Resource Schedules
• Assumptions and sustainability Assessments
• Prepare Terms of Reference
• The Quality Assessment Tool
• Designing A Monitoring System
• Review Implementation Procedures
• Project Evaluation and Reporting

During the Project Cycle Management Workshop & Coaching, participants learned:

• The Role of the Project Cycle, and Key Activities to be undertaken at each stage
• The Principles of Project Cycle Management & the Logical Framework Approach (LFA)
• How to use the LFA to assess a project document & identify information needs for a feasibility study
• How to structure terms of reference for feasibility studies
• The role of the Log frame in Project Monitoring & Evaluation
• The Importance of the Integrated Approach & the PCM basic format

By the end of this program participants were familiar with the procedures used by the donor agencies to identify, formulate and manage development projects and thus be capable of preparing successful project proposals. In addition, this program focused on developing and integrating an appropriate strategy and exit plan in Project Proposal Development, Developing Monitoring and follow-up tools for the implementation of the disengagement plan of action, and to develop a fast-track approach with the involvement of all main stakeholders for programs or projects which need to be ended within a very short period of time.

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