Online course (C10)
Project management
This course covers everything from the basics of project planning to the role of stakeholder engagement and risk management in ensuring successful projects. You will learn how to develop a comprehensive sanitation project proposal, a project implementation plan and a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning plan. You will also learn about the project management cycle and various approaches and frameworks used for result-based project management. In addition, you will develop a sanitation project proposal and implementation plan based on a real case study. By the end of the course you will have hands-on experience in developing a sanitation project proposal and implementing a project. You will be well-equipped to lead teams, engage stakeholders and ensure that your projects make lasting impacts on the communities they serve.
Course information
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Objectives
After completion of the course you will be able to:
- Explain the project management cycle and discuss various results-based project management approaches;
- Develop a coherent and consistent project proposal (sanitation);
- Develop a project implementation plan (sanitation).
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Syllabus
This course covers the following topics:
- Project management cycle
- Results-based project management
- Monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) framework
- Project proposal and project implementation plan
- Context analysis
- Stakeholder analysis and engagement
- Specific problem analysis
- Theory of Change
- Risk assessment and mitigation
- Task planning and work breakdown structure
- Project budget and value for money
- MEL indicators and monitoring plan
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Delivery method
Each course in this series consists of video lectures, presentation slides, reading materials, exercises, and assignments. In principle, each video presentation has its own complementary presentation slides. Some parts of the course also include exercises and/or assignments. Please note that this course is free, open access, and does not include guidance, exams, assessment, or certificate. As a rule of thumb, if you spend 8 hours per week following this course, you should be able to complete the curriculum within 14 weeks.
Instructions on how to use the course materials are available here.
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Organization
Each course has its own coding system. The code of this course is C 10. Each course consists of units. Each unit has a unique code, for example, U 10.1. In the section ‘Unit 10.1 videos │ …” you can find and watch all video-recorded lectures that belong to this unit. Similarly, in the section ‘Unit 10.1 course materials│ …” you can download all materials that make this unit (e.g. high-resolution videos, presentation slides, reading materials, exercises, assignments, etc) as a single compressed file (in zip format). Some files may be of considerable size, so you need to assure that your computer has sufficient bandwidth and capacity for downloading.
Unit 10.1 course materials │ Introduction to project management
In this section, you can download all video-recorded lectures, presentations, and other documents that make up this unit.
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Unit 10.1│Course materials (zip)Download
Unit 10. 2 course materials │ Project proposal
In this section, you can download all video-recorded lectures, presentations, and other documents that make up this unit.
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Unit 10.2 │Course materials (zip)Download
Unit 10.3 course materials │ Project implementation plan
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Unit 10.3 I Course materials (zip)Download
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