Project Cycle Management for International Development Cooperation Presentation of “Project Cycle Management” Course Teacher Pietro Celotti Università degli Studi di Macerata 7 October 2011

Section 1 My presentation

Your teacher With an education in the humanities, I have designed and coordinated in the last ten years several European projects in the fields of culture, rural tourism, career guidance, lifelong education and internationalisation of SMEs Experience in Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Spain, France, UK, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, India, Malaysia, Tunisia

Your teacher today In 2010 and 2011 I was teacher of Project Cycle Management in the Master in Relations with Eastern Countries of the University of Macerata Since 2010 I am partner of t33, a consulting firm supporting public bodies in managing and evaluating EU programmes and projects Today I am more a project evaluator than a proposal writer and a project manager

Your teacher’s experience I have been working for: – Local authorities – Regional/local agencies of development; – SMEs – Sicily region – Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Section 2 “Project Cycle Management for International Development Cooperation” course presentation

Project Cycle Management This course is strongly related with the job dimension We have to get familiar with two different job positions: – Proposal writing – Project management

Proposal writing Identifying the project idea Analysing the funding programme Creating the network of partners Elaborating the proposal (with plan of action and budget) Checking the formal completeness of the proposal “Managing” the proposal writing team and ensuring that the proposal is submitted!

Project Management Programming the whole project at operational, administrative and financial level Creating and empowering the team Coordinating the network of partners Developing the activities at local level Running the ordinary administration of the project

Project Management Monitoring the project progress Finalising and sending the technical reports Finalising and sending the financial reports Keeping transparent and collaborative relations with the managing authority

What about you? Do you have any experience in this field? Are you more a proposal writer of a project manager? What are in your opinion the competencies, which are necessary to cover these positions? What are the organisations where such positions exist?

Our lessons Presentation of the "Project Management" course: summary of the issues, bibliography, case history Project approach, Project Cycle Management with emphasis on Identification and Formulation phases The logical framework approach: stakeholder analysis and problem analysis

Our lessons The logical framework approach: Logframe matrix Planning and scheduling project's activities: design of the Gantt Chart, re-scheduling of the activities. Principles of technical monitoring of the project Defining project's costs: identification of budget burdens, highlighting of budget items, analysis of staff costs and indirect costs. Principles of financial monitoring of the project

Our lessons Project management: the horizontal competencies approach (Results orientation, Methodical, Organising) Project management: the horizontal competencies approach (Decision Making, Problem Solving, Networking, Communication)

Our lessons Evaluation of the project: quantitative approach Evaluation of the project: qualitative approach Total: 40 hours

Our methodology Lectures Case histories Exercises

Strengths Related to the actual job dimension Operational, concrete International Oriented towards socially, environmentally, economically sustainable development Based on real projects

Weaknesses Limited scientific background Linked to the teacher’s professional experience More experimented in courses for professionals than in courses for academic students Based on teamwork - not easy to be practiced in case of a very small class!

Opportunities Good basis for a training period Course to be mentioned in a job interview “Proposal writer” and “Project manager” positions exist in all organisations working on a project basis More and more organisations are starting to work on a project basis

Threats Case histories will be old when you will approach the job dimension Project management tools will be more advanced when you will approach the job dimension

A basic PM bibliography Project Cycle Management Guidelines, European Commission, March n.htm n.htm Communication and visibility manual, European Commission, July Guide for Regional Development Agencies, Sviluppo Marche (SVIM), 2009

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