COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 10 – 21 Mar 2025 | 09 – 20 Jun 2025 | 08 – 19 Sep 2025 | 08 – 19 Dec 2025

Duration: Two (2) Week

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

PREAMBLE

This course is designed to train participants on the practice of good Grants management. The course will equip participants with the ability to understand the Primary functional areas of Grants Management. The Grants Management Cycle will also be explored in depth, whereby participants will be asked to relate their training to actual issues and experiences at their place of work.

TARGET GROUP

Senior and middle level managers, project teams, individuals working in public and private sector projects. Employees working in CDF, LATF, NGOs and other programs are encourage to attend this valuable seminar in order to improve their skills in PM.

COURSE OUTLINE

The following issues will be discussed:
1. Introduction: Fundamentals of Grants Management
2. Grant Management Cycle, Roles, Responsibilities and Requirements:

• Planning
• Proposal Submission
• Award of Grant
• Implementation
• Monitoring & Evaluation
• Amendments
• Reporting
• Close out

3. Types of Grants, Applications and the Obligating Documents

• In-kind
• Standard
• Mixed

4. Compliance:

• Who to comply with and areas of compliance

- Donor compliance
- Legislative compliance
- Accounting Standards and Practices
- Community and cultural Compliance

• Key Departmental Compliance Areas in Donor Fund Management:

- Financial
- Reporting and Documentation
- Procurement Procedures
- Travel and Per diems
- Human Resource Management
- M&E and Impact Assessment

5. Contract Amendments

• Types of Amendments
• Necessitating Reasons
• How to manage and carry through successfully

6. Reporting

• Financial
• Narrative
• Evaluations
• Amendments

7. Internal Control Systems

• Procedures & Processes
• Risks and mitigation

8. Fund raising, budgeting and costing
9. Partnerships & Consortia

• Reasons
• Managing
• Problem areas to watch

10. Co-Financing and Multi Donor Funding

• Sources and reasons
• Managing the intricacies varied compliance issues
• Own/community cost contribution

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: 03 – 14 Feb 2025 | 05 – 16 May 2025 | 04 – 15 Aug 2025 | 03 – 14 Nov 2025

Duration: 2 Weeks

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

PREAMBLE

The CPM course will give you practical knowledge and skills how to monitor and evaluate projects and programmes. You will learn how to ask and answer common M&E questions, such as:

1. Which information do we really need in order to understand our achievements on outputs, outcomes and impacts?
2. Who determines, collects analyses and processes the data to obtain this information, when and how?
3. How to efficiently integrate this into my organizational processes and management systems? Furthermore you will experience how monitoring and evaluation can be turned into (participative) learning. At the end of the course you will be able to design, organize and steer evaluations in such a way that they contribute to accountability and stimulate learning by all stakeholders.

TARGET GROUP

Departmental heads, planners, project coordinators and managers involved in projects working in public and private sector are encourage to attend this CPM seminar.

COURSE OUTLINE

1. Monitoring and Evaluation: Basic Concepts and Definitions
2. Monitoring and Evaluation as an Integral Component of the Project Planning and Implementation Process
3. Evaluation Types and Models
4. Monitoring and Evaluation Methods and Tools
5. Monitoring and Evaluation Planning, Design and Implementation
6. Data Analysis and Report Writing
7. Use of Monitoring and Evaluation Results
8. Ms 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: 03 – 14 Feb 2025 | 05 – 16 May 2025 | 04 – 15 Aug 2025 | 03 – 14 Nov 2025

Duration: 2 Weeks

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

PREAMBLE

The CPM course is tailored to enhance the knowledge, understanding and skills of participants in the concepts of project management in the firm. Participants learn skills that promote successful projects with keen practice of time, scope, quality management and within budgetary constraints. A foundation on the project management key performance indicators, concepts and practice of monitoring and evaluation will be shared through applied sessions. Participants will be asked to relate their training through case studies and work experiences.

TARGET GROUP

Departmental heads, planners, project coordinators and managers involved in projects working in public and private sector are encourage to attend this CPM seminar.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Identification and Appraisal of Projects
• PM Processes: Project Initiation, Planning, Implementation, Control and Close.
• Time Management through scheduling and planning.
• Budget Management to ensure the success of projects
• Monitoring & Evaluation during and after project completion. The M &∓ E types, Tools and Methods
• PM Software - The Ms. Project as a Scheduling, Budgeting and Reporting Tool


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: 03 – 14 Mar 2025 | 16 – 27 May 2025 | 08 – 19 Sept 2025 | 08 – 19 Dec 2025

Duration: 1 Week

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

Preamble

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Distinguish performance/VFM audits from financial audits;
• Identify the types of performance/VFM audits based on performance expectations or risks within government programs;
• Understand the role of auditing in public sector governance;
• Understand and consider the steps in planning a performance/VFM audit;
• Understand how programs are selected for audit and how performance/VFM audit objectives are developed based on identified risks/vulnerabilities;
• Describe different data collection and analysis methodologies, and their applicability to specific objectives;
• Review performance auditing approaches for economy, efficiency and effectiveness;
• Review audit program development and components of audit fieldwork;
• Identify elements of audit findings including cause, condition, criteria and effect;
• Review evidence in terms or quality, quantity, and types;
• Review audit reports and report writing; and
• Review best practice suggestions for developing audit recommendations.

COURSE OUTLINE

1. Concept and Purpose of Performance/VFM Audits

• Overview of performance auditing process
• Characteristics of performance audits
• Role of auditing in public sector governance
• Differences from financial audits
• Selected standards for performance/VFM audits
• Sources of audit guidelines
• Interdisciplinary knowledge requirements for government auditing
• Exercise – Challenges to performance auditing

2. Audit Plans

• Performance auditing planning process
• Audit selection
• Audit ability
• Estimating audit budgets
• Selection and prioritization under constraints
• Case study – Fleet Services Branch

3. Planning for Specific Audit Projects

• Audit standards
• Mapping programs
• Overview of Input-Process-Output-Outcome approach
• Definition of program
• Program design and components
• Government service delivery model
• Steps in mapping a program
• Exercise: Mapping a program within Fleet Services Branch

4. Establishing Audit Objectives and Scope

• Defining/refining the audit objective
• Develop audit scope
• Government performance expectations model
• Performance measurement
• Performance measures
• Well-developed audit objectives
• Exercise – Developing audit objectives for Fleet Services Branch

5. Audit Methodology Using a Measurement-Based Approach

• How to conduct a measurement-based performance audit
• Program definition and performance expectations
• Government expectations model
• Analyzing program performance through performance measures
• Sources of performance criteria
• Exercise: Performance criteria within Fleet Services Branch

6. Developing Audit Methodology

• Steps required to develop audit methodology
• Qualitative methods of gathering evidence
• Quantitative methods of gathering evidence
• Methodology considerations
• Exercise: Match objectives to methodologies

7. Selected Performance Audit Approaches

• Auditing input economy
• Auditing process efficiency
• Auditing outcome effectiveness

8. Audit Program and Fieldwork

• Developing the audit program
• Exercise: Capital equipment replacement program of Fleet Services Branch
• Conducting the fieldwork
• Exercise: Audit fieldwork for the Fleet Services Branch Audit

9. Audit Findings and Evidence

• Elements of audit findings
• Audit guidelines
• Audit criteria
• Types of findings
• Fieldwork standards
• Types of evidence
• Hierarchy of evidence.
• Exercise: Distinguish elements of a finding from case studies; identify different types of evidence

10. Audit Reporting and Best Practices

• Reports and report writing
• Presenting audit findings
• Describing key relationships
• Exercises: Various exercises to encourage selected best practice writing/editing practices
• Report outline development
• Developing conclusions
• Developing recommendations
• Exercise: Write a high impact recommendation
• Follow-up and Follow-through

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.