COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 04 – 15 Mar '2024 | 03 – 14 Jun '2024 | 02 – 13 Sept '2024 | 03 – 13 Dec '2024

Duration: 2 Weeks

Venue: Nairobi

Participatory Project Planning And Management course is available Online.

Customized dates and one-on-one sessions can be organized.

Preamble

This course is intended to equip participants with both specialized knowledge and practical skills in participatory Project Planning, Monitoring and Impact Assessment with the view of improving their strategic-thinking and decision making skills when managing development projects and responding to development challenges under globalized environment.

Target Group

This course is intended for Executive Directors, Planning Officers, Economists of Local Government Authorities (Townships, Districts, Municipalities and Cities), Heads of Departments and Sections, Project Managers and Coordinators, Field Officers and Functional Managers from Government and Non-Government Organization.

Course Outline

Introduction
• 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
• So how does that “fit’ together??? ( small group exercise)

Participatory Project Inception and design
• How to build on people’s wish for change (initiating)
• How to ensure collective contributions
• How to identify 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
• Team exercise
• Assignment

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

In situation during a monitoring visit (role play)
• Discussion – Checking in
• Work on assignment

Participatory Project Evaluation
• Why do a Project evaluation?
• Evaluate what and for whom: accountability vs learning
• Revisiting the Change expected

Learning and communications
• How to frame and use the learning
• Reporting and Communicating about the project

REGISTRATION

To register, kindly fill the Seminar Registration Form and send it to us through:

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancellation of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.

COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 08 – 19 Jan 2024 | 08 – 19 Apr 2024 | 08 – 19 Jul 2024 | 07 – 18 Oct 2024

Duration: 2 Weeks

Quality Assurance and Control course is available Online.

Customized dates and one-on-one sessions can be organized.

Preamble

This CPM training course is designed to develop the delegates’ skills in quality assurance and control and grant them the best practices they require to implement different types of quality programs, including Total Quality Management (TQM), within their organization. 

Target Group

Senior Management, Quality Assurance and Quality Management Managers and Staff,   Department Managers, Team Supervisors, Human Resource Managers, Training Managers, Customer Service Professionals. 

Course Outline 

• Introduction to Quality Assurance and Control Improvement Techniques 
• Principles of Quality Assurance and Control
• Techniques for Quality Assurance and Control Improvement 
• Implementing a Culture of Quality – The Role of Total Quality Management
• Benefits of Quality Assurance and Control Improvement 

REGISTRATION

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancellation of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.

COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 05 – 16 Feb '2024 | 06 – 17 May '2024 | 05 – 16 Aug '2024 | 04 – 15 Nov '2024

Duration: 2 Weeks

Research, Monitoring and Evaluation in the Public Sector course is available Online.

Customized dates and one-on-one sessions can be organized.

Preamble

The overarching course objective is to instil in the public sector monitoring and evaluation systems and practices that focus on delivering outcomes, improving public sector performance and enhance accountability and good governance.

Target Group

Public service departments, entities, municipalities and non-governmental managers dealing with the monitoring and evaluation of public sector policies, programmes and projects.

Course Outline

• Introduction to monitoring and evaluation
• The context of monitoring and evaluation in the public sector;
• Logic models and formulating evaluation questions
• Policy framework for monitoring and evaluation in the government;
• Approaches and techniques for monitoring and evaluation;
• Indicators and measurement
• Data collection strategies
• Managing evaluation processes
• Steps to establishing an outcome-based monitoring and evaluation system;
• Reporting results
• The link between reporting and monitoring and evaluation;
• Requirements for institutionalizing monitoring and evaluation systems and practices in the public sector.
  
  

REGISTRATION

To register, kindly fill the Seminar Registration Form and send it to us through:
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancellation of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.

COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 08 – 19 Jan '2024 | 01 – 12 Apr '2024 | 01 – 12 Jul '2024 | 07 – 18 Nov '2024

Duration: 2 Weeks

Customized dates and one-on-one sessions can be organized.

Preamble

Programs and projects are expected to reach specific goals. They involve multiple components, each with multiple activities, sometimes implemented in various parts of the country. Those activities require monitoring and evaluation in a results-based management (RBM) context. Donors, beneficiaries and national agencies should be able to measure the progress of ongoing activities and assess outcomes. This involves collecting and processing data, analysing information, and discussing with stakeholders current status of indicators that cover all areas of monitoring and evaluation: activity completion, goals and objectives achievement, risk, effectiveness and sustainability.

Target Group

Designed for officers and agents involved in monitoring and evaluation activities in various agencies, departments, programmes or projects, this seminar presents a comprehensive tool-kit and best practices for implementing a performance-based framework.

Course Outline

• Project Management Foundations: Concepts, purposes, principles of project management
• Project Formulation & Design (Initiation)
• Project Management Costing &Budgeting
• Project Management Control Tools
• Project Risk Management
• Concept Note Development &Proposal Writing
• Basic Concepts of Monitoring &Evaluation
• The need for M&E
• Developing an Monitoring &Evaluation System
• The logical framework approach
• Types of Evaluation 
• Planning for M&E
• Participatory monitoring and evaluation
• Baseline Survey &Data and developing performance indicators
• Data collection for M&E (M&E tools and Methods)
• Data analysis
• Developing Evaluation Report
• Result Based Monitoring &Evaluation System
• Monitoring &Evaluation Information dissemination &Use
• Session on Managing for Impact
• Project Management Information Systems
  
  

REGISTRATION

To register, kindly fill the Seminar Registration Form and send it to us through:

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancelletion of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.