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Project Planning and Management with Logical Framework Approach (3 days)

How to design, present and monitor projects with the help of a concise and simple table

Courses in 2010

To be announced shortly

Course fee and registration:

Early bird fee/full fee (in Swiss Francs, more information):
- Non-OECD: CHF 870/1020
- OECD: CHF 1170/1320. To register, please fill in this form and send it to us by email. For further enquiries, please contact us.

Overview

The logical framework approach (LFA) is a management tool to design and manage projects. This approach leads towards the presentation of key project information in a simple table, the log frame. The log frame summarizes long and short term levels of project objectives and respective measures for assessing progress.

The log frame provides a logical, practical and transparent project summary for all stakeholders. It helps to communicate a project outline clearly on one or two sheets of paper and thus should facilitate a participatory approach in project management. A majority of international funding institutions and donors require the use of LFA as a method of developing and presenting a project proposal and to monitor its implementation.

Click here to download the course leaflet (PDF format).

Who should attend

This course is intended in particular for:
  • Project Managers
  • Project Team Leaders
  • Programme Managers
  • Heads of Department
  • Heads of Office
  • Desk Officers
How you and your organisation will benefit - Learning Objectives

On this course participants will be able to:
  • Become familiar with the origin and development of LFA
  • Define the characteristics and main elements of project design and management with LFA as planning tool
  • Organise problem and stakeholders analysis in a participatory approach
  • Translate results of analysis into objectives
  • Identify a strategy to achieve objectives which takes into account stakeholder capacity and resources
  • Identify activities necessary to achieve objectives
  • Learn how to develop measurable progress indicators and how to collect information to verify indicators
  • Take stock of external risks and assumptions which will influence the project design and its implementation
  • Write and present a log frame for a project
  • Learn how to update a log frame during the project lifecycle.
Course programme


Day 1
Overview
  • What is logical framework analysis (LFA)
  • Why LFA is useful and how to use it
  • Identifying characteristics of LFA model
  • How to develop a LFA matrix
Step One: Establishing Objectives
  • Problem Analysis
  • Stakeholder Analysis

Day 2
Step One (continued)
  • Defining project objectives and strategies
  • Setting up activities needed to achieve objectives
  • Listing resources required
Step Two: Identifying Indicators and Means of Verification
  • How to measure progress and results
  • Developing indicators
  • How to gather information needed to verify indicators

Day 3
Step Three: Considering Risks and Assumptions
  • Identifying external factors necessary to achieve project objectives
  • Risk Analysis
  • Analysing assumptions
Step Four: Using the Log Frame during Project Implementation
  • Using the log frame for project presentations and reporting
  • Updating the log frame during implementation of the project

Individual consultation

As a participant, you can obtain an individual consultation from the trainer during the course on how to further develop a project of your own, or on another subject of your choice.

Course venue

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