Planning and Managing Development Project Lecture Summary
Lecture 1. Introduction
Course Topics 1. Introduction 2. Objectives and Benefits 3. Costs and Risks 4. Standard and options 5. Financing 6. Institutional Options 7. Public sector development 8. Environmental and Social safeguards 9. Implementation Arrangement 10. Risks and Evaluation
What is a Project?
→A unique organised set of activities and inputs to produce desired outcomes within defined schedule, subject to uncertainty, for defined purposes. * Different from production, operation * Desired but uncertain * Value judgement on purpose - development
Related Concepts
Strategy | Policies - General, Sector | Plan | Program | Scheme | Budget | Subprojects | Components | Tasks | |
Levels of Project Issues
→ Implementation:
- Find money and people, Design, Execute. * Key question: How?
→ Scopes, Alternatives * Key question: What, where, when?
→ Objectives and Goals:
- Benefits and costs.
- Is it worth all the trouble? Are there better things to do? * Key question: Whether, To do or not
Build a Bridge?
Key Project Variables "CSSQ"` * Cost * Schedule * Scope * Quality
* Organisation * Environment
- Constituents, Economy, Environment
Project Success Factors * Macro policies and institutions* * Experience and capacity of planning and implementing institution
- System of evaluation and learning * Accountability framework
- monitoring, control * Risk* and change management * Clarity of and consensus on objectives
Expertise Involved
Project evaluation | Procurement | Project financing | Contract management | Project management | Monitoring and Evaluation | Engineering | Public administration | Environmental Analysis | Development planning | Social analysis | Economics |
.....
+ operation management
+ Impact evaluation
Project cycle and Associated Reports and Reviews
| Project cycle |
Course Topics 1. Introduction 2. Objectives and Benefits 3. Costs and Risks 4. Standard and options 5. Financing 6. Institutional Options 7. Public sector development 8. Environmental and Social safeguards 9. Implementation Arrangement 10. Risks and Evaluation
What is a Project?
→A unique organised set of activities and inputs to produce desired outcomes within defined schedule, subject to uncertainty, for defined purposes. * Different from production, operation * Desired but uncertain * Value judgement on purpose - development
Related Concepts
Strategy | Policies - General, Sector | Plan | Program | Scheme | Budget | Subprojects | Components | Tasks | |
Levels of Project Issues
→ Implementation:
- Find money and people, Design, Execute. * Key question: How?
→ Scopes, Alternatives * Key question: What, where, when?
→ Objectives and Goals:
- Benefits and costs.
- Is it worth all the trouble? Are there better things to do? * Key question: Whether, To do or not
Build a Bridge?
Key Project Variables "CSSQ"` * Cost * Schedule * Scope * Quality
* Organisation * Environment
- Constituents, Economy, Environment
Project Success Factors * Macro policies and institutions* * Experience and capacity of planning and implementing institution
- System of evaluation and learning * Accountability framework
- monitoring, control * Risk* and change management * Clarity of and consensus on objectives
Expertise Involved
Project evaluation | Procurement | Project financing | Contract management | Project management | Monitoring and Evaluation | Engineering | Public administration | Environmental Analysis | Development planning | Social analysis | Economics |
.....
+ operation management
+ Impact evaluation
Project cycle and Associated Reports and Reviews
| Project cycle |