The workshop is highly participatory and team-based. We encourage diversity in groups as this assists with the process of understanding yours and others point of view. The 2 days would cover the following topics:-

• Project Cycle Management Overview
  - Characteristics of quality project designs
  - The economic & financial value of Participation
  - The logical Framework methodology
  - Project Identification, Preparation & Appraisal
• Prelude to Successful Project Design
  - Analysing Stakeholder's & Interests
  - Problem analysis
  - Objectives analysis
  - Alternatives & Feasibility Analysis & Selection
• Primacy of Cause & Effect Logic
  - Key concepts
  - The Development Project hypothesis
  - Portfolio of Projects
  - Causal vs Sequential Thinking
  - Hierarchy of Project expectations
  - Primacy of Point of View
  - Clarifying objectives and the cause and effect relationship between project deliverable's and intended impacts.
• Demand Driven Design
  - Client & Beneficiary centred designs
  - The customer-provider relationship
  - Customer Relationship Management
• Performance indicators
  - Defining project -appropriate and practical performance
  - How to Target Indicators
  - Process or Leading Indicators
• Monitoring & Evaluation
  - Identifying the means of verification for tracking performance
  - The learning cycle
  - The learning organisation
  - Evaluation of Impact vs. Monitoring of Deliverables
• Manageable Interest
  - Clarifying management Responsibility and Accountability
  - Accountability and Point of View
  - The concept of Power (Control, Influence, Appreciation)
• Program or portfolio management
  - How projects with a common goal are linked
  - The Portfolio and Point-of-View
  - Creating Alignment between Programs and projects.
• Model for Systems Integration
  - Management Functions
  - Project Management Tools
  - Work Breakdown Structure
  - Gantt Chart
  - Organisational Responsibility Chart
  - Critical Path Network - sequential logic
  - Performance Budget & Expenditure Schedule
  - Integrated Project Implementation Planning and Monitoring
• Design Quality Checklist and How to Review a Project Design
• How to Communicate a project Design in terms of it's underlying causal logic