Course Overview
The future of many organizations depends on their ability to manage projects, programs, and portfolios of projects, which increases the demand for skills in this area.
This course will examine the inner workings of projects by analyzing the characteristics of effective programs, which bring together a series of projects for mutually supportive and concerted action.
The course will pay particular attention to programs selected from the areas where the international public sector entities are most active, particularly post-conflict relief and development, and case studies will be reviewed to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between policy and management of implementation.
Course Objectives
- Students who complete the course will be able to
- Design a program of action based on clear policy directives
- Draft a comprehensive project document
- Monitor and evaluate the implementation of an ongoing program with a view of recommending corrective action.
- Enhance skills in awareness of unplanned problems that may arise while they manage their projects
- Develop a toolkit of materials which will assist them to effectively address project design and management challenges
Course Content
- International development project design and implementation
- Monitoring and evaluation methods
- Innovations and the practice of impact evaluation for organizational learning
- Management of monitoring and evaluation functions and teams
- Quantitative and qualitative research methods for field-based monitoring and evaluation
- Historical contexts and critiques of monitoring and evaluation
Exercises:
After reading course materials, students are expected to complete some relevant exercises and tasks to test their own learning.
Assignments
Students will be required to submit three assignments to demonstrate their understanding of the course content.
DURATION: 3 Months
REGIONS TARGETED: Global
COURSE FEE: €500
ORGANIZERS: GRI
LANGUAGE: English and French
FORMAT: Online Learning
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