Course Outcomes
Expected learning outcomes
- Define Participatory Approaches
- Explain the purpose of Participatory Approaches
- Identify types of Participatory Approaches
- Identify target areas/ Groups for participatory methods
- Define project identification.
- Justify purpose of project identification
- State the stages of project identification
- Define planning
- Justify the purpose of planning
- Decide on appropriate planning methods
- Decide on appropriate follow ups on planned activities
- Define monitoring and evaluation
- Explain the purpose monitoring & evaluation
Target Audience
Who should attend?
- Programme and project managers in the private and public sector
- Practitioners who would like to gain a better understanding of project management
- Employees who wish to improve their marketability in the market and strengthen their knowledge
Curriculum
Course modules and outline
Introduction to Course
- Objective setting: sharing our expectations
- Defining our terms : Project / Participatory/ Planning and management
- Experience sharing/problem solving
Project management and Participatory development
- Overview of Project Management and Project Life Cycle (PLC)
- Overview of Participatory development philosophies and approaches
- Show does that “fit’ together??? ( small group exercise)
Participatory Project Inception and design
- How tbuild on people’s wish for change (initiating)
- How tensure collective contributions
- How tidentify resources needed: existing skills and assets, external input (planning)
Key elements of a Project Plan
- Description; Confirmation; Tracking
- Constructing the action plan on existing assets
Participatory Project Implementation
- Keeping people’s agency at the heart of the action
- Identifying risks, alleviating them
Managing the action while keeping participation
- Managing resources: human, in-kind, financial
- Some tools, methodologies / case study
Project Follow-up and monitoring
- Strategies for ongoing participatory assessment
- Tracking Changes, Confirming plan
- When Change is needed: adjusting the course of action
Participatory Project Evaluation
- Why da Project evaluation?
- Evaluate what and for whom: accountability vs learning
- Revisiting the Change expected
- Learning and communications
- How tframe and use the learning
- Reporting and Communicating about the project
Why Attend
Key course benefits
Practical capacity building approach
Designed for government, NGOs and public institutions
Real-world African case studies
Certificate of completion
Applicable tools and templates
Interactive facilitation and exercises
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