Development Project Management

• 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

• Donor agency profiles and aid delivery Models
• Database
• Program design tools and approaches
• Situational analysis
• Problem analysis
• Problem trees
• Objective trees
• Stakeholder analysis
• Logical framework
• Program budgeting
• Cost-benefit analysis