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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

Session

Contents

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

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

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)

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

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 : 14B-C01
Date(s) : 23, 24, 25, 26, 27/3/2015
Time : 0900 - 1700 (35 Hours)
Venue : Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, 15 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, HK
Target Participants : 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 : 20
Language : English
Fee : HKD 9,700.00
    HKD 9,240.00 (For HKCSS Agency Member Staff Only)
Early Bird Fee : HKD 8,800.00 (Payment on or before 11/02/2015 for HKCSS Agency Member Staff Only)
Enquiries : 2876 2470 or [email protected]
Speaker(s) :
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.

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.

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