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Project Design and Management

This course aims to equip students with fundamental skills for project cycle management. It will cover key concepts like project identification, design, monitoring, reviewing, and evaluation. Students will learn how to formulate needs assessments, analyze problems, develop logical frameworks, and create implementation and monitoring plans. They will also learn about documentation, auditing, termination and project closure. Students will be assessed through tests, group projects, quizzes and a final exam.

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Project Design and Management

This course aims to equip students with fundamental skills for project cycle management. It will cover key concepts like project identification, design, monitoring, reviewing, and evaluation. Students will learn how to formulate needs assessments, analyze problems, develop logical frameworks, and create implementation and monitoring plans. They will also learn about documentation, auditing, termination and project closure. Students will be assessed through tests, group projects, quizzes and a final exam.

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SALALE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Academic Year: 2022/23 Year: IV Semester: II

Mode of delivery: Parallel Credit Hours: 3 Course Code: SoAn4114

Course Title: Project design and management Course Instructor: Miliyon.B

Course Description
The intention of this course is to equip students with the fundamental skills needed for project
cycle management. Project management is a growing discipline that has to do with the
application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to the broad ranges of activities like
education, manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, etc.

The course comprised of interrelated conceptual frameworks, which include project


identification, project design/formulation, project monitoring to make sure that the project is on
track, project reviewing to see whether each level of objective leads to the next and whether any
change is warranted and project evaluation to assess impacts.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, attentive students will be able to -
 Understand the meaning and trends of project related concepts.
 Explain the importance of the community based project and its challenges
 Point out how to formulate needs and capacity assessment.
 Develop a clear picture how research and problem analysis formulated to a particular
project.
 Examine how project implementation and assessment going on.
 Critically analyze when and how project monitoring and reviewing conducted.
 Describe how project evaluation controls the sustainability of a project.

Course Contents

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT


1.1. Definition and Characteristics of a project
1.2. Project Life Cycle management: an overview
1.3. Project Management Bodies of Knowledge
1.4. Community based project
1.4.1. Importance of Community based project
1.4.2. Challenges of Community based project
CHAPTER TWO: PROJECT IDENTIFICATION AND PROJECT DESIGN
2.1. Project identification criteria: relevance, feasibility, sustainability and eligibility
2.2. Need assessment and capacity assessment
2.3. Conducting a stakeholder analysis
2.4. Risk assessment and analysis
2.5. Analyzing the problem: problem tree analysis
2.6. Analyzing the objectives: objective tree analysis
2.7. Selecting your strategy/ strategy analysis
CHAPTER THREE : PROJECT FORMULATION
3.1. Building logical framework
3.2. Setting the objectives, outputs and activities: first column
3.3. Setting up the indicators and means of verification: second and third column
3.4. Setting up the key assumptions: fourth column
3.5. Proposal development and action planning
CHAPTER FOUR: IMPLEMENTATION PLANNING
4.1. Main periods of implementation: inception, implementation, and final period
4.2. Expected outcomes of implementation
4.3. Major Principles of implementation
4.4. The work breakdown matrix
4.5. Responsibility matrix
4.6. Calendar of activities
4.7. Resource plan and budget
CHAPTER FIVE : PLANNING OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION
5.1. Project Monitoring, Evaluation and Control
5.2. Monitoring plans and Performance Indicators
5.3. Differences of monitoring, Evaluation and Audit
5.4. Reason for Monitoring and Evaluation
5.5. Types of Monitoring and Evaluation
5.6. Criteria for Monitoring and Evaluation
5.7. Process and steps of monitoring and Evaluation
5.8. Writing Report of Monitoring and Evaluation
CHAPTER SIX: DOCUMENTATION, AUDIT, TERMINATION, AND CLOSURE
6.1. Project Documentation and Audit
6.2. Project Termination and Closure
Distribution of Values for Assessment
1. Test …………………………………………………………………......................20%
2. Design of a hypothetical project proposal (group task) and presentation………….15%
3. Monitoring and Evaluation of a project (group)……………………………….......10%
4. Quiz……………………………………………………………………….………..5%
5. Final Exam…………………………………………………………………..…… 50%

Reference Books and Articles


Aitken, A., Crawford, L.H., 2008. Senior management perceptions of effective project
manager behavior: an exploration of a core set of behaviors for superior project
managers. Proceedings of the PMI Research Conference, Warsaw, Poland.
Ali, A.S.B., Anbari, F.T., Money, W.H., 2008. Impact of organizational and project factors
on acceptance and usage of project management software and perceived project
success. Proj. Manag. J. 39 (2), 5–33.
Artto, K., Martinsuo, M., Dietrich, P., Kujala, J., 2008. Project strategy: strategy types and
their contents in innovation projects. Int. J. Manag. Proj. Bus. 1 (1), 49–70.
Association for Project Management, 2006. APM Body of Knowledge, 5th edition. Association
for Project Management, High Wycombe.
Blackman R. 2003. Project Cycle Management. England, Tear Fund.
Davidson J. 2005. Project Management: Ten Minutes Guide. Volume 4. USA, Penguin
Group INC.
Morris P. 1998. The Management of Project. England, Thomas Telford.
Management Institute. 1999. Project Planning and Analysis. Bahir Dar.
E. H. Schein, 1999. Why Does Corporate Culture Matter? In The Corporate Culture Survival
Guide, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers: 3-58.

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