Strategic Project Planning - Practical Tools for Private Sectors and NGOs

 Training on
Strategic Project Planning - Practical Tools for Private Sectors and NGOs 
17-18 September 2016
 

A project is unique in that it is not a routine operation, but a specific set of operations designed to accomplish a singular goal. So a project team often includes people who don’t usually work together–sometimes from different organizations and across multiple geographies[1]. Thus there are the needs strategically for leader and teams to manage a project in the way that overall delivery within their areas of responsibility and work to enable the change, reaching a goal, through the resources and relationships they have. This two day training course will provide you with essential techniques to convert any problem, idea, or opportunity into clear objectives, before actions formulated. This will sharpen the logic of your strategy so that it’s aligned both within the project and with the larger organizational Strategies, Goals, and Vision.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Strategically to consistently think, plan, act, and assess in a way that best achieves your desired results;
• Be able to turn strategic intent into well-designed, actionable projects effectively for individuals and organizations;
• Be able to use cause-effect thinking to form strategic, hypotheses and design sound strategies, projects, and action initiatives of all types;
• Be able to sharpen the strategic hypotheses of the project—the chain of If-Then connections—leads to common understanding and agreement on how the project deliverables contribute to realize business Goals;
• Be able to verify three directional types of logic, Vertical, Horizontal and Zig-Zag logic in a project Log Frame grid;
• Be clear about the Measures that matter in the organization unit;
• Be able to define the next action step that is discrete and doable by break down tasks into the next actions to be taken.

COURSE CONTENTS

Module 1: Project Initiating	Module 2: Building a Project Objectives
Common issues to tackle Start Smart, NASA Rule #15 Start with lession learned Project definition The six planning mistake	Starting with Four Strategic Questions If-Then concept exercises Building multible objectives into trees Strategic Hypotheses—Personal exercises
Module 3: Logical Framework Grid	Module 4: Aligning Project with Strategy
Conceptual of the Logical Framework Four critical question to build logframe Hand on exercise to build grid Veryfication your statement logic	Managing Portfolios and Programs Logical Planning Steps Develop core strategy Turning strategy into operation plan
Module 5: Four Critical Strategic Thinking	Module 6: Putting The Concepts Into Action
Expore linking project to corporate-level objective What success mean and how do we measure Identifiy asumption and reduce risk Detailing the work plan tasks, budget, and schedule.	Managing the Strategic Action Cycle Three Types of Assessment Celebrating Success LogFrame Limitations and Best Practices

TRAINER PROFILE

TUY Pheap is a holder of M.Sc in Regional and Rural Development Planning from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok, Thailand, since 1996. Mr. Pheap has had more than twenty-year experience in implementing development projects in Cambodia, funded by expternal donors including, UNDP, Sida, DfID, DANIDA, WB, EU, and SDC. He has long experience in providing training to participants from grasrood level, villagers, village cheif, commune chief, to higher level, goverment official, civil society leaders, project staffs, university lecturers and company employees on various subject including results-based management (RBM), logical framework approach (LFA), project cycle management (PCM), monitoring and eveluation (M&E), commune planning, data collection, data analysis, report and proposal writing, social accountability. Currently, Mr. Pheap is a freelance cosultance, who his practical experience as technical adviser with varios development projects includes: 1) IP3-NP-SNDD funded by EU, Sida, SDC; 2) RILGP funded by WB; 3) NRML funded by DANIDA and DfID; 4) PSDD funded by UNDP and Sida; 5) PLG and CARERE II funded by UNDP, and others

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This Strategic Project Management is for any Project/Program Managers/Directors, Supervisor who have recently been appointed to manage a project and anyone who is new to the project design, implementation, project monitoring and evaluation. This course is essential for those, who facing difficulty to align their action plan with organization strategy as well as to estimate resources required to implement a project.

COURSE DETAILS

Date:                17-18 September 2016

Venue:              Hotel/Restaurant located in Phnom Penh

Time:                8 am-5 pm

Language:       Khmer

Fee:                 US$ 250 (Includes VAT)
Early Bird:       US$ 230 (Register before September 10)

The Fee includes: Materials and Certificate of Participation.

Educational Development Institute (EDI)

#22, St. 51┴154,  PhsarThmei III,  Daun Penh,  Phnom Penh.
Tel: 023 966 967  /  015 728 123 / 015 729 123  /  016 557 123
Email:  info@edi-cambodia.org  /  training@edi-cambodia.org

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COURSE TITLE	DATE	ORGANIZER
Strategic Project Planning-Practical Tools for Private Sectors & NGOs	17-18 Sep	EDI
TAXES & YOUR BUSINESS	24-25 Sep	EDI
Practical Tools for Monitoring and Evaluation of Project/Program	8-9 Oct	EDI

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