Event Details
OBJECTIVES
This course intends to help the participants to be able to:
- Gain the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively evaluate and assess projects
- Understand how to measure project performance
- Learn and use project management principles
- Use different methods and techniques to evaluate and assess projects
- Prepare assessment and evaluation reports
- Learn the benefits and limitations of each evaluation and assessment method
- Present reports to stakeholders and sponsors
- Plan and execute project assessment and evaluation effectively
- Choose the most appropriate method for any given project
- Interpret and use project assessment and evaluation results
CONTENT
Introduction to Project Assessment and Evaluation
- Why assessment and evaluation are important
- How to use project evaluation and assessment tools and techniques
- How to determine the right time to perform project assessment and evaluation
- How to identify pitfalls of assessment and evaluation
- Types of assessment and evaluation in project management
- Benefits of undertaking evaluation and assessment
- challenges of assessing and evaluating projects
- Criteria for determining project assessment
The Role of Assessment and Evaluation in Project Management
- How to interpret the results of an assessment and evaluation
- The role of evaluation and assessment in monitoring and control
- How do evaluation and assessment affect project execution
- The benefits of using assessment and evaluation in project management
- The role of evaluation in project closeout
- The role in project planning
Planning for Assessment and Evaluation
- The importance of planning
- The process
- Benefits of Planning
- Challenges of planning
Conducting Assessments and Evaluations
- Summative assessments
- Achievement
- Skills evaluation
- Interests’ exploitation
- The design
- Formative
- How to score assessment
- Choosing the right tools for the job
- Developing assessment tools
- Methods of conducting the assessment
Reporting on Assessments and Evaluations
- How to write a report on assessment and evaluation
- Tips for writing a report
- What should be included in the report
- Proper formatting of the report
Using Assessment and Evaluation Results
- How to communicate the results to stakeholders
- Pivoting from the results
- Improving the results by analysing the results
- Using the results in decision making process
- Effectively using the results
Project Closeout and Lessons Learned
- Project closeout procedures
- What to do during project closeout
- Lessons learned from previous projects
- How to document lessons learned
- Best practices for project closeout
- Closeout checklist
- Case studies
- Closeout report
Stakeholder Management
- Managing stakeholders throughout the project life cycle
- Building and maintaining stakeholder relationships as an evaluator
- Identifying and engaging stakeholders
- Resolving stakeholder’s conflict
- Analysing and managing stakeholder expectations
- Communicating with stakeholders effectively
- Defining stakeholders and their role in the project
- Evaluating the project without the influence of stakeholders
Ethics
- The importance of ethics in project assessment and evaluation
- The need for transparency and accountability
- Potential implications of not taking ethics into account when assessing and evaluating a project
- The challenges associated with ensuring that ethics are considered in project assessment and evaluation
This course is available in the following locations:
Nigeria - $3000
Ghana - $6000
Rwanda - $7000
UK - $8000
USA - $8000