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Project Design

WSPA Balkan Seminar. Project Design. Scott Lang 12 November 2007 Sarajevo, BiH. Welcome - Dobro Došli. Speaker Background Presentation Sub-Topics  Eyeing your mission in project design  Conceptualization (pre-project)  Developing your project  The project proposal

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Project Design

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  1. WSPA Balkan Seminar Project Design Scott Lang 12 November 2007 Sarajevo, BiH

  2. Welcome - Dobro Došli • Speaker Background • Presentation Sub-Topics  Eyeing your mission in project design  Conceptualization (pre-project)  Developing your project  The project proposal  M & E (monitoring & evaluation) + Reporting  Learning lessons, scalability + expanding  SOS Sarajevo Case Studies project design

  3. Eyeing your mission in project design • Taking a step back  Why / how your group came to its mission?  Your org structure (top-down, flat, diversified)  Strategy: SWOTs (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats • How this project fits your mission?  How project follows on past projects  How project builds your organization? project design

  4. Conceptualization (pre-project) • Your group’s ethos in project design  New idea openness, galvanizing change agents  On-Line forum, brainstorming meetings  Who Designs? Dictator! Silos, BoD/Staff, Vols?  Donor / RFP driven? • Identifying problem(s) your project addresses  Analysis of Stakeholders  Analysis of possible Donors / RFPs  Relationship / Coalition Building  Limited or long-term change project design

  5. Developing your project • LFA Logframe Analysis: Problem / Solution  Problem Tree, development of direct causes  Why this project is important now  Change envisioned by this project • Organizational Assets  Why our org, key staff, experience, materials  How project strengthens group & field project design

  6. The project proposal • Narrative Summary, goal (result), purpose (change)  OVI (objectively verifiable indicators), quality & quantity  Why apply to this donor, other potential funders • Activities / Tasks  Detailed rationale & methodology • Exact Time Frame  Stages, reporting(s), adjustments • Budget  Narrative line items, quote methodology  Staff / Org. Costs (% of budget or specific overhead) • M & E (Monitoring & Evaluation)  Methodology, mainstreaming, learning  MOV (means of verification - sources of info) project design

  7. During the project • Monitor external factors impacting outcome (assumptions) • Eye ‘super goals’ avoid getting bogged down in details • Remain flexible, empowering key managers to adjust • Actively engage stakeholders: donors to grassroots • Devise a communications strategy, knock-on impact  Press conferences & releases, vlogs (YouTube), blogs, web-forum, website, material development • Self-care, avoid burn-out, cross-training, contingency project design

  8. Learning lessons, scalability + expanding • M & E • Lessons learned, acknowledging mistakes • Scalability for future projects • Final Reporting (donors & public) project design

  9. SOS Sarajevo Case Study I‘Zeljka, A Sarajevo Fairy Tale’ • Street-dog Zeljka found in 2000 amidst rubbish • Re-homed in Germany in 2001 • Fitted with wheels for paralyzed hind legs • SOS utilized tragedy for children’s learning • In 2003, ADF funded educational project • SOS visited 4 schools, met 500 students • Students created 1,100 animal themed pictures project design

  10. Sarajevo Bear - ‘Meda’ • The Sarajevo bear was housed in a wolf cage at the zoo 6 x 5 m2 • SOS Sarajevo created a public advocacy campaign and designed a new enclosure, currently 3 bears housed 483 m2, best in Balkans • All work done pro-bono, no donations project design

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