- Category Virtual Classroom
- Duration 15h
- Language English
- Date Contact Us
Virtual Classroom
Result-based planning and management
3-day session training course on how to realistically design and implement actions combining donor needs, limited resources and strategic development
Course Description
More and more, the concept ‘result based’ is used to identify the core principles of the major part of donors funding mechanisms. This very often induces to overload the design work, and the related implementation phase, with complex, poorly-realistic and not easily sharable methods even within organisations, which are inspired by different management methods.
In the last 30 years, manuals and donor guidelines have been making a great effort to introduce, propose and enforce robust and highly sophisticated planning & management methods, like ZOPP, RBM, Logframe Approach, ToC, just to mention some. The question is ‘what should we do today’ with this massive theoretical evolution, when designing and managing quality projects that – at the same time - fully comply with donors’ requirements and meet our target’s needs?”
The course aims to respond to this question by providing an overview of the most common planning & management methods and by accompanying participants in linking mainly PCM, RBM and ToC, for the benefit of clear evidence of project achievements and of change. The proposed learning path, meant to enhance the planning and management skills of – among others - project designers, project managers, desk officers, compliance officers, combines the focus on donors’ requirements (in particular EU) with the realistic and effective project design and management, fully in line with the organisations’ strategic goals.
The course is based on the facilitators’ thirty-year first-hand experience on the topics, on their review of manuals and on their contributions to the international debates on planning & management methods.
Learning objectives
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Know key concepts, terminology
- Acknowledge the value added of outlining sound project logics (ToC, result chain, output and outcomes, indicators) for effective and efficient project management
- Set up and critically manage the (result-based) process from the project idea to the project conclusion
By subscribing to this course, you will have access to a dedicated page on the PuntoSud learning platform. From here, you can join the live sessions, download the course materials and complete all the assignments.
The course is structured in 3 days of 4 hours of interactive online sessions combined with self-learning. The total time to complete the course is approximately 15 hours:
- Preliminary tasks – 1 hour – you will be asked to introduce yourself, complete the survey on training expectations and go through some preliminary training materials.
- Live sessions – 12h – 3 sessions of 4 hours each - the sessions will be facilitated by Mr. Andrea Stroppiana and PuntoSud experts and they include lectures, plenary and group discussions, group work, quizzes and online interactive exercises. The live sessions will be recorded and made available in the learning platform.
- Additional learning material – 1h30m, you will have at your disposal additional readings and documents that you can study at your own pace.
- Forum discussion – you can ask questions and share relevant information with the trainers and the other participants.
- Final tasks – 15 mins – complete the exit test and fill out the evaluation form.
At the moment this course is available for in-house sessions only. If you are interested, please contact us at this email address support@academy.puntosud.org
This course is designed for any people engaged in designing, managing or and interacting in development projects (regardless of the sector of intervention and the geographical context) who want to:
- discover more about the existing links between PCM, RBM and ToC ;
- Study the tools that can be used in the design, management and measurement of the changes produced in developing context
- aim to ensure compliance with the latest donors’ requirements in this field.
A basic knowledge of the PCM and logframe approach is suitable for this course.
Computer or tablet with a microphone and speakers or a headset and Internet connection. The live sessions are organized in Zoom – no additional software is required.
All the material will be available for 7 calendar days before the starting date and for 15 calendar days after the end of the last training session.
Once you have reviewed the training material and completed the exit test you can download your certificate of attendance from the learning platform. Each specific course has a certificate to download.
The certificates and the records of the courses attended are always available in your profile page
For any queries please have a look at our FAQs. If you don’t find what you’re looking for or need additional information, please get in touch with our customer care service.
Day 1
- Genealogy of definitions & concepts:
- Where are we in 2022?
- Do we need to take everything on board?
- Planning & management methods vs funding agencies’ requirements
- What we do control in a project (and what we do not)
- Steps in planning and in outlining the programme theory
- Overview of the DAC Criteria
- Allocating the available resources to link projects with DAC criteria
Day 2
- Understanding the context
- Identifying who the project influence and who is influenced by the project
- Backword mapping
- Focus on EU suggested planning methods
- Outlining solid & realistic project logics
- What about indicators?
- Focus on result chain & indicators for the EU
- Budgets beyond administration: introduction to performance-based financing
- Activities & achievements over time
- Focus on EU budgets & workplans
Day 3
- What is monitoring of the monitoring (and who is involved)
- Processing & use of findings beyond funding agencies’ requirements
- Result-based monitoring for internal & external commitments
- Risk management
- Focus on EU monitoring & evaluation requirements
- Reporting to funding agencies
- RBM and knowledge management
- Focus on EU reporting requirements
Monica Favot
Project Department And Evaluation Lab - TrainerSara Castagneto
Training Manager - TrainerSimona Pogliani
Puntosud Academy - Head Of DepartmentSkill Level
Intermediate - Advanced
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