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TRAINING PROBLEMATIC

For several years now, the international agencies that support foreign development and their development partners in the countries of the South have shown interest in the improvement of the working methods of the organisations of the south by defining and setting up tools to improve the management and implementation of planned projects. Thus, three important domains have been identified and constitute the subject of a program of capacity building of these partners:

• The planning, monitoring and evaluation of development projects,
• Organisational development,
• Financial management.

Concerning the first domain, institutions are resorting more and more to specialists who regularly put at the disposal of decision-makers situations, syntheses and reliable guidelines that are indispensable for making certain strategic and operational choices. It is within this framework we are conducting a capacity building programme for a number of intermediate organisations on the theme of planning, monitoring and evaluation of projects.

GLOBAL AIMS OF THE TRAINING

• To enable allow partners involved in the implementation development actions to adapt their interventions to the real needs on the field and to elaborate a reference platform for better communication between partners.
• To provide partners with simple and efficient tools that enable them to organise their work towards the achievement the expected results desired by partners.

TARGET PUBLIC

Officials and senior staff members in charge of monitoring and evaluation in intermediate organisations (NGO), public and private development agencies.

DURATION: 10 days

VENUE:  YAOUNDÉ  (Non residential) November 19-30, 2007

First session Nov.19- 23, 2007
Second session Nov 26-30, 2007

PARTICIPATION COST (Tax Exclusive): Training cost & feeding

For one session  375 000 F CFA /650 $ US     
For two sessions     700 000 F CFA/1200 $ US

CONTENT OF THE TRAINING

SESSION I: THE PROJECT PROCESS

MODULE 1: The planning, monitoring and evaluation (pme) system as a 
methodological tool

• Role and importance in the management of the project cycle.
• The project life cycle and the project management process,
• The PME logical framework and approach.

MODULE 2: How to conduct the preliminary diagnosis

• Analysis of the context,
• Identification and characterisation of population targeted by the project,
• Analysis of stakes and strategies of actors,
• Positioning of the support NGO and elaboration of hypotheses for the action to be carried out
• People participatory process.

MODULE 3: Planning

• The process of planning,
• Identification of activities, planning of resources, scheduling of activities / Work breakdown structure (WBS), estimate of the duration of activities,.
• The elaboration of the calendar of activities,
• Cost estimate,

• Definition of the ex post monitoring and evaluation arrangements

SESSION II: MANAGING A PROJECT THROUGH A MONITORING AND EVALUATION SYSTEM

MODULE 1: Programme of activities

• Programming tools (list of activities, GANTT diagram, PERT),
• Financial programming: budgeting and elaboration of the project financial plan,

MODULE 2: How to prepare and execute project monitoring

• Planning of follow-up,
• Prospective follow-up and retrospective follow-up,
• Measuring of progress and the use of resources,
• Other types of internal and external information to collect,
• Participatory monitoring, data collection and the treatment of information.
• The role of the accompanying NGO in the set up,
• Relationship between the monitoring of community based organisations and the monitoring of NGO.

MODULE 3: How to prepare and execute the evaluation of projects

• Periodic evaluations,
• Measurement of the evolution of indicators
• Evaluation as an instrument of control and decision-making,
• Internal or self evaluation and external evaluation,
• The measurement of project effects and impact.