Course Outcomes
Expected learning outcomes
- Project cycle management, preconditions and assumptions, and its iterative structure.
- Alternative planning strategies for conditions of uncertainty.
- Organizational factors involved in developing new policies, choosing among alternatives, gaining acceptance, assuring implementation, and coping with unanticipated consequences.
- Political environment and the interactions of clients and advisers, engineers, planners, policy analysts, and other professionals.
Curriculum
Course modules and outline
I. Introduction
- Introduction to Project Evaluation and Course Overview
- The Development Planning Tradition
- The Project Cycle: Project Identification and Appraisal
II. Financial Appraisal
- Development of Financial Cash Flows for Project Evaluation: Investment Plan
- Development of Financial Cash Flows for Project Evaluation: Operating Plan, Analysis from Alternative Points of View
- Discounting and Alternative Investment Criteria
- Alternative Investment Criteria and Problems of Durability and Correction Procedures
- Scale, Timing, and Interdependencies in a Project - 1
- Scale, Timing, and Interdependencies in a Project - 2
- Forecasting and the Treatment of Inflation - 1
- Forecasting and the Treatment of Inflation - 2
- Risk Analysis
- Project Financing and Risk Management
- Debrief Problem Set 4: Risk Analysis
III. Economic Appraisal and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
- Overview of Economic Analysis of Investment Decisions
- Measurement of Economic Benefits and Costs in Undistorted Markets; with Sales Taxes and Subsidies
- Measurement of Economic Benefits and Costs in Distorted Markets: Taxes, Rationing, Monopolies
- Measurement of Economic Benefits and Costs in Distorted Markets: Tradables and Forex
- Economic Opportunity Cost of Capital: Discount Rates
- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
IV. Critical Analysis of Quantitative Appraisal Techniques
- Social-Distributive Appraisal of Projects
- Institutional Dimensions: Local Politics and Capacity - Project Implementation, Monitoring
- Institutional Dimensions of Project Appraisal: the Funders
- Project Appraisal and Project Evaluation
- Rational Analysis in the Field
- Participation in Development Projects
- Projects in Practice
Target Audience
Who should attend?
- All non-accountants who need an understanding of finance and accounts in order to perform their roles effectively, including:
- Engineers, technical managers, production managers, project managers and all those from non-financial disciplines.
- Newly appointed managers, supervisors and team leaders.
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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