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Project Cycle Management for International Development Cooperation : Applied Presentation of the course

Università degli Studi di Macerata. 2 October 2013. Project Cycle Management for International Development Cooperation : Applied Presentation of the course. Teacher Pietro Celotti. Section 1 My presentation. Your teacher.

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Project Cycle Management for International Development Cooperation : Applied Presentation of the course

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  1. Università degli Studi di Macerata 2 October 2013 Project Cycle Management for International Development Cooperation: Applied Presentationof the course Teacher Pietro Celotti

  2. Section 1 Mypresentation

  3. 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 Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Spain, UK - India, Malaysia, Tunisia – and Italy!

  4. Your teacher today • In 2010 and 2011 I wasteacherof Project Cycle Management in the Master in Relations withEasternCountriesof the Universityof Macerata • In 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 I wasteacherof Project Cycle Management in thiscourse • Since 2010 I am partner of t33, a consultingfirmsupporting public bodies in managing and evaluating EU programmes and projects • Today I am more a project evaluatorthan a proposalwriter and a project manager

  5. Your teacher’s experience • I havebeenworkingfor: • Localauthorities • Regional/localagenciesofdevelopment • Regions • ItalianMinistryofForeignAffairs • SMEs

  6. Section 2 “Project Cycle Management for International Development Cooperation: Applied” coursepresentation

  7. Project Cycle Management • Thiscourseisstronglyrelatedwith the job dimension • Wehavetogetfamiliarwithtwodifferent job positions: • Proposalwriting • Project management

  8. 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!

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. What about you? • Do youhaveanyexperience in thisfield? • Are you more a proposalwriter or a project manager? • What are in your opinion the competencies, which are necessaryto cover thesepositions? • What are the organisationswheresuchpositionsexist?

  12. Our lessons • Presentation of the "Project Management" course: summary of the issues, bibliography, case history • Project Cycle Management with emphasis on Identification, Formulation and Implementation phases • The logical framework approach: stakeholders analysis, problem analysis, SWOT analysis • The logical framework approach: General objective, Specific objective, Results, Activities

  13. Our lessons • Planning and scheduling project's activities • Project management: the horizontal competencies approach • Focus on networking: the importance of the partnership in a cooperation project • Focus on communication: tools and solutions for project dissemination and  capitalisation

  14. Our lessons • Complementarity with “Project Cycle Management: Theory” • Total of this course: 20 hours

  15. Our methodology • Lectures • Case histories • Exercises

  16. Strengths • Relatedto the actual job dimension • Operational, concrete • International (and thisclasshelps!) • Orientedtowardssocially, environmentally, economicallysustainabledevelopment • Based on realprojects

  17. Weaknesses • Limitedscientific background, totallydependent on the EuropeanCommission • Linkedto the teacher’s professionalexperience • More experimented in coursesforprofessionalsthan in coursesforacademicstudents

  18. Opportunities • Goodbasisfor a training period • Coursetobementioned in a job interview • “Proposalwriter” and “Project manager” positionsexist in allorganisationsworking on a project basis • More and more organisationshavestartedto work on a project basis

  19. Threats • Case historieswillbeoldwhenyouwillapproach the job dimension • Project management toolswillbe more advancedwhenyouwillapproach the job dimension: thinkof the newprogrammingperiod 2014-2020!

  20. A basic PM bibliography • Project Cycle Management Guidelines, European Commission, March 2004 http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/infopoint/publications/index_en.htm • Territorial Cooperation Project Management Handbook, Interact - European Union, March 2007 http://www.interact-eu.net/interact_publications/interact_publications/302/6780 • Communication and visibility manual, European Commission, July 2009 http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/visibility/index_en.htm

  21. Let me knowifyoufollow me.. p.celotti@t33.it

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