1. 1.4.1 Poverty Alleviation Project Management 1 POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT UPA Package 1, Module 4

2. 1.4.1 Poverty Alleviation Project Management 2 Project Management Objective enable the students to discuss and analyze the concepts and procedures of implementing poverty alleviation projects in terms of project management, planning, implementing,, and monitoring and evaluation fo projects addressing urban poverty

3. 1.4.1 Poverty Alleviation Project Management 3 Introduction Development projects : means to implement development programs Public institutions responsible for initiating and managing development undertakings to: –Address poverty (e.g., eliminating unemployment) –Redress historical inequalities

4. 1.4.1 Poverty Alleviation Project Management 4 Introduction Points to consider: –Definition of projects –Place of project management in administration –Management skills required –Phases of project management cycle

5. 1.4.1 Poverty Alleviation Project Management 5 PROJECT MANAGEMENT CYCLE Project management cycle –Project conception –Project preparation –Project monitoring and implementation –Project evaluation

6. 1.4.1 Poverty Alleviation Project Management 6 Poverty Alleviation Projects Poverty alleviation projects: device through which institutions implement poverty alleviation policies Focus: initiating changes in government spending priorities, launching long-term poverty alleviation programs, and delivering benefits to disadvantaged communities and individuals

7. 1.4.1 Poverty Alleviation Project Management 7 Project and Program Project: set of activities with defined start- and end-dates, specific objectives to be achieved with certain constraints, and limited resources to be utilized. Poverty alleviation project: broader, encourages capacity- building, employment creation, sustainability Project: component of a program. Program: group of an similar, related, or allied projects; organized social activity with a specific objective an comprises an interrelated group of projects. set of specific action steps which must be undertaken separately or simultaneously to attain policy objectives (UN)

8. 1.4.1 Poverty Alleviation Project Management 8 Project Management Project management: technique to be applied during the program implementation phase of policy implementation to ensure effective and efficient implementation of development policies Management skills: –Leadership –Motivation –Team-building –Resolution of conflict

9. 1.4.1 Poverty Alleviation Project Management 9 Public Manager in Project Management Project planning –Project conception:identification and formulation of project proposal –Project preparation: proposal subjected to a series of feasibility analyses based upon which a project report will be submitted for project appraisal Project implementation: execution of project by project team Project evaluation: detailed analyses of overall effectiveness of project in attaining objectives contained in broader development programs and policies

10. 1.4.1 Poverty Alleviation Project Management 10 Project Planning Project conception –Project identification –Project formulation and preliminary design Project preparation –Feasibility analysis –Project appraisal

11. 1.4.1 Poverty Alleviation Project Management 11 Project Implementation Project implementation: phase of project management cycle which represents the actual establishment and operation of a development project

12. 1.4.1 Poverty Alleviation Project Management 12 Project Monitoring and Evaluation Monitoring: keeping updated reports on the project Ex post evaluation, retrospective in focus, after project completion to determine goal attainments and impact of project