Development Project Management
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- Development Ecosystem
- Evolution of the ecosystem of development actors and their roles
- Donor agency profiles and aid delivery models
- Development strategies
- Business models
- Approaches to formulating programs and projects
- Life-cycle of a development program
- Program design tools and approaches
- Situational analysis
- Problem analysis
- Problem trees
- Objective trees
- Theory of change, development hypothesis
- Stakeholder analysis
- Program design quality
- Best team practices
- Logical framework
- Results hierarchies
- M&E design
- Program budgeting
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Program management structures
- Terms of Reference preparation
- Implementing organizations and competitive factors;comparative assessment of their
- philosophies
- approaches
- areas of specialization
- Assessing Scopes of Work and RFP requirements
- Decision criteria for responding to RFPs
- Proposal preparation tools and skills
- Assessment of donor's evaluation/scoring criteria
- Building team
- Creating an implementation plan
- Developing a proposal budget
- Assumptions
- Project Startup and Work Planning
- Planning for he full program lifecycle
- Creating annual workplans to allocate resources and track activities
- Preparing expenditure reports to track program budget
- Using standard reporting, monitoring and evaluation tools
- Reporting, evaluation and accountability
- Monitoring and reporting practices
- External evaluations
- Program audits
- Adaptive management and communication strategies
- Risk management
- Communication strategies for reaching different stakeholder audiences
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- Donor agency profiles and aid delivery Models
- Program design tools and approaches
- Situational analysis
- Problem analysis
- Problem trees
- Objective trees
- Stakeholder analysis
- Logical framework
- Program budgeting
- Cost-benefit analysis
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