ECONOMICS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSES FOR 2010

EP 101 PROJECT PLANNING AND APPRAISAL

Target Group:
Middle level staff responsible for project preparation in all three sectors of the Malawi economy.

Duration:
3 Weeks

Course Objective:
This course will assist you in analysing and describing project characteristics, defining constraints and determining financing criteria.  In addition, participants will be exposed to the new computer applications for project planning and appraisal.

Outline:

• The Project Concept and Cycle
• Situation Analysis and Project Identification.
• Project Preparation using the Logical Framework
• Project Proposal Writing
• Project Appraisal: Financial, Economic and Social Analysis
• Computer Applications in Project Planning and Appraisal.

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EP 102 PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION MANAGEMENT

Target Group:

Project officers and line managers in the public, NGO and private sectors involved in implementing projects in their organisations.

Duration:  2 weeks

Course Objective:
The course is aimed at enhancing your abilities to deliver projects on time and within budget.

Course outline:

• Overview of Project Management
• Project Planning Techniques
• Role of the Project Manager
• Project Scope Management
• Project Organisation
• Project Time Management
• Use of computer in work scheduling and Control.
• Project Quality Management
• Project Cost Management
• Leading Project Teams
• Project Risk Management
• Project Monitoring

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EP 103 PROJECT MONITORING AND EVALUATION

Target Group:
Senior project managers in the public and private sectors and NGOs.

Duration:  2 weeks

Course Objective: 
This course will give project Managers an opportunity to improve their skills and increase their knowledge of project monitoring and evaluation.  Of special interest will be the module on computer applications to project monitoring.

Course outline:

• Rationale for Project Monitoring and Evaluation
• Project Monitoring and Project cycle
• Designing monitoring and control systems
• Measuring cost effectiveness
• Monitoring project progress
• Applying computer capacity to project monitoring
• Types of evaluation and their relevance
• Managing effective evaluation
• Reporting monitoring and evaluation results

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EP108 MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF HIV/AIDS PROGRAMS IN MALAWI

Target Group
The target group for this course is all upper and middle level managers in HIV and AIDS programs and all officers that are involved in the monitoring and evaluation of HIV and AIDS.
 
Duration:       2 weeks

Course outline:

• HIV/AIDS Program/Project Overview
• Linking HIV/AIDS Program/Project Design to M&E
• Understanding The Role of M&E in HIV/AIDS Program/Project
• Opportunities and Barriers to M&E
• Goals, Objectives and M&E Questions (Concepts and application to HIV/AIDS Programs)
• Developing and Selecting M&E Indicators (Concepts and application to HIV/AIDS Programs)
• Designing an M&E System for HIV/AIDS Programs
• Developing a Comprehensive (HIV/AIDS) M&E Work Plan
• Collecting, Analyzing and Using Collected M&E Data
• Use of Computers in Analysis of the Data
• Reporting and Dissemination of M&E Results

 Course Structure
The course has three core modules and these are:

• Introduction to monitoring and evaluation
• Collecting, Analyzing and Using Monitoring Data and
• Developing a monitoring and evaluation work plan

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EP 107 PROJECT FORMULATION AND WRITING CONVINCING PROPOSALS

TARGET GROUP
This course is designed for those peoples who have recently moved to positions that require them to formulate projects and write proposals. Also, this course is meant for you if you would like to deepen your understanding of the dynamics of seeking project funding.

DURATION: 1 week

Course Objectives:
The course aims at equipping participants with skills on how to effectively formulate projects and how to write convincing and winning project proposals in these days of increasing competition for scarce donor funding.

Course Outline:

• Overview of project-based approach
• Identification and prioritization of areas that need projects.
• Formulation of projects using problem and objective analysis.
• Writing effective project objectives.
• Identifying project beneficiaries and impacts.
• Identifying interests of donors
• Key features of a project proposal
• Preparing project concept notes.
• Principles of passionate and persuasive proposal writing.

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