COURSE DESCRIPTION

The focus of the training is to help participants acquire skills and enrich their knowledge on two core areas of skills. These core areas are divided in to two phases:

• Theme: Advanced Level Training for High and middle level managers: the aim is to enable high level managers to be acquainted with project management concepts and tools. It will also review current practices from the results based management perspectives.

The training will include group works and demonstrations so that participants will develop their skills in ways that they can deploy these skills on their immediate work environment. The training will be of an international level standard. This program is structured to improve the competency level of both middle level and senior leadership and technical experts at federal, and subnational level offices.

TARGET GROUP

This course primarily targets directors, senior management at different level of government, Heads of units managing staffs, and project coordinators, middle level and senior staffs working on education management information systems, education policy analysis and program management, Monitoring and Evaluation experts, and Education Management Information Systems experts.

Requisites: minimum qualification of Bachelor’s degree is a social science or science field is required.

COURSE OBJECTIVES and OVERVIEW

Theme Title: Advanced Level Project Management

• Introduce to the participants the conceptual framework and principles of project management.
• Equip the participants with skills and dynamics of team work in project management.
• Empower participants to do SWOT analysis on current project management and identity for better results using project management methodology and principles
• Achieve effective communication and reporting skills.
• Understand procedures followed in financial monitoring and evaluation of donor funded projects
• Techniques in preparation of decision alternatives and reasoning to present decision alternatives for decision makers.
• Performance Management Framework and Risk Analysis
  • Risk
  • Project costing based Programming
  • Results Based Reporting
  • Integrated Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Management
  • Risk 
Analysis
  • Risk Impact Mitigation
  • Risk Monitoring

PROGRAMME OF STUDY

There will be 6 interactive academic study hours per day for 5 (five) days for each phase as per the teams availability. The number of study hours amounts to 60 interactive hours for each phases.