Certificate Courses
Certificate on Project Cycle Management (PCM) in Development Work for NGOs (Advanced)
Introduction
The NGO Management Association Switzerland (NMA), based in Geneva, is committed to enhancing the management capabilities of NGOs addressing today’s most challenging development and humanitarian concerns. NMA has provided training to groups of participants in 17 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. They have developed a series of professional management programmes, including Project Cycle Management and Logical Framework Approach (LFA), demonstrating its effectiveness and relevance in many parts of the world.
To enforce management professionalization, the HKCSSI has developed partnership with NGO Management School, a department of theNGO Management Association since 2011. This year, we have selected 2 participatoryProject Management courses, where professional trainers will come over to conduct expert training programmes on Project Management in Hong Kong. Successful participants will also be awarded with NGO Management School certificates.
1. A
3-day Introductory Course to Project Cycle Management, focusing on the design and planning of projects in the development sector. It draws on field and HQ experience, with good practices from international organisations and contexts in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
2. A 5-dayAdvance Course, using LFA as the overall planning framework in an effective and responsive way and based on the participants experience and identified challenges.
Overview
This is an advance course for Development Practitioners with prior experience in PCM or those who have followed the introductory PCM course, to deepen their understanding and develop their competency in project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Project Cycle Management and Logical Framework Approach (LFA) is the general framework and the course is based on a series of modules to support the requirements of the participants. The course is practice oriented and will work with concrete cases and experiences, addressing the challenges faced by participants in their own project work. The above is supplemented with dynamic and innovative approaches to project design and implementation. The course includes group work, joint reflection and discussions on development and methodological challenges and is combined with short presentations by the expert facilitator.
Objective
- To plan all stages of the PCM and make informed choices on which methods and approaches to apply to given situations;
- To develop concrete solutions to the challenges in project planning and to draw on and use a number of complementary or alternative methods and approaches for planning and implementation of development projects.
Content
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Session |
Contents |
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Session 1
23 March
0900 –1700 |
Results Based Management
(RBM)
- Outcome
oriented rather than output oriented approach to project planning/management
-Itsrelationto
LFA and Project Cycle Management
SelectingMethods
-The importance of
selecting relevant methods for specific project planning
-Identification
of the strengths andweaknesses in the different approaches
-Buildingawareness
of the critical choices to be made and how best to combine the merits of
these approaches in the participants’ specific projects |
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Session 2
24 March
0900 –1700 |
Preparation of the
Project:
Planningand
implementinga relevant context analysesand needs assessment
-Why
context analysis and needs assessments
-How
to carry out context analysis and needs assessments
-Selecting
and combining methods for carrying out the analysis
-When
and how to use participatory processes, and when to go for "expert” lead
processes
-Planning
the context analysis – drawing up Terms of Reference
Planning a Project – Using
the Logical Framework Approach
-Building
on strength of theLFAapproachand enhancingitsuses(part
1)
-The
7 planning steps
i)Participants’
project analysis
ii)Problem analysis |
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Session 3
25 March
0900 –1700 |
Using the Logical
Framework Approach(part 2):
The 7 planning steps(cont.)
iii)Objective
analysis
iv)Strategy analysis
v)Project elements
vi)Assumptions and
risks
vii) Indicators (covered
in the discussion on Monitoring and Evaluation) |
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Session 4
26 March
0900 –1700 |
Sustainability and
Planning the Exit
The Major Challenges
i)Secure
sustainabilityfrom an organisational,institutional and financialpoint
of view
ii)The key factors
that promote or hinder sustainability
Monitoring and Evaluation
(M&E)
i)Why a monitoring
and evaluation system is undertaken
·Monitoring as an
instrument for documenting performance
·Formative M&Eas
an instrument for learning and responsive project planning
ii)Designingstrategic
and practicalM&E systems
iii)Discussing and
creating concrete planningfor an M&E system:
·Developing the work
plan, identifying tasks, timing and resource allocation
·Preparing key
management tools |
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Session 5
27 March
0900 –1700 |
Monitoring
-Types
of monitoring
-When,
who and how to monitor
-What
to monitor: output, outcome and impact monitoring
-Different
methods, indicator based – Most significant change
-Challenges
in setting up a realistic and workable monitoring system
Evaluation
-The
DAC evaluation criteria
-How
to plan an evaluation
-Who
to do the evaluation
-What
is the purpose of the evaluation
-Who
should participate and in what role |
Details
| Course Code |
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14B-C01 |
| Date(s) |
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23, 24, 25, 26, 27/3/2015 |
| Time |
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0900 - 1700 (35 Hours)
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| Venue |
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Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, 15 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, HK |
| Target Participants |
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Preferences will be given to candidates who have attended the 3-day preparatory course in Project Cycle Management, development practitioners with experience in planning and implementing projects. The course is designed for:Project Managers, Programme Coordinators, key staff in project management or Managers supervising project planning and implementation |
| Class Size |
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20 |
| Language |
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English |
| Fee |
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HKD 9,700.00 |
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HKD 9,240.00 (For HKCSS Agency Member Staff Only) |
| Early Bird Fee |
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HKD 8,800.00 (Payment on or before 11/02/2015 for HKCSS Agency Member Staff Only) |
| Enquiries |
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2876 2470 or [email protected] |
| Speaker(s) |
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Mr. Flemming Gjedde-Nielsen
Senior Trainer and Consultant
NGO Management School Switzerland
Mr Flemming Gjedde-Nielsen has 25 years of experience working with development and humanitarian organisations in Africa, the Arab world and Asia. He has particular strong insights in working with southern NGOs, CBOs, networks and alliances and social movements with emphasis on diverse aspects of partnerships.
Flemming has 25 years experience from all stages of the project cycle management, as a designer of programme/projects, as an implementer, as coach to programme/project leaders, as reviewer and evaluator and in designing manuals and guidelines in support of programme and project design, implementation and monitoring.
In addition to project cycle management, Flemming has extensive experience in strategy development and strategic positioning of organisations, organisational assessment and development.
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Remarks
"Small NGO Talent Development Subsidy Programme" does not apply to this course. For other financial support, please click HERE .
Certificate
The NGO Management Association Switzerland and HKCSS Institute will issue completion certificate separately to each participant who fully completed the advance certificate course.
Coaching Session
HK $4,000/session
(3 hours including reading documents provided by the coachee, asking questions on the documents, etc. and coaching through telephone or skype)
Post-Course Coaching (optional)
We believe that all training requires post-course coaching to ensure that new skills and knowledge acquired are fully embedded in professional practice and bring new competencies to your organisation. A post-course session of three hours tailored coaching for each participant are planned after the course to guide participants in the translation of theory and new knowledge into the development of professional competencies and practices.
The course participants can choose to have individual coaching service on their own project work.
The Project Cycle Management and Logical Framework (LFA)
Logical Framework (LFA) is the dominant approach to planning and managing projects in major donor agencies. LFA has proven its value as a problem-oriented planning approach, an effective tool for the analysis, systematic planning and presentation of projects. In the Advance course, different areas of concern will be addressed, and solutions for mitigating suggested, include addressing questions such as:
- LFA is a problem-oriented planning approach - it seeks solutions to identified problem(s). How can we fully utilise the opportunities that are provided in a given context and learn from what works?
- LFA has a tendency toward blueprint planning - how to capture the often rapidly shifting context and learn from implementation in the continuous planning and secure continued relevancy of the project tool?
- In the processes of monitoring and evaluation, how to capture and document the unforeseen positive and negative effects of our interventions?
The trainer will take a holistic approach, based on the knowledge that there is no one single method for planning and implementation of project work which addresses all of the above issues. Various methods and approaches have merits and de-merits and critical choices have to be made to secure effective implementation. Examples of such complementary methods that will be introduced are: Theory of Change, Appreciative Inquiry, Most Significant Change etc. The participants will sharpen their ability to understand the implications of various choices and provide a basis for informed choices with concrete suggestions on solutions.
