Project Cycle Management for International Development
Cooperation: Applied
Presentation of the course
Teacher
Pietro Celotti
Università degli Studi di Macerata
2 October 2013
Section 1
My presentation
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!
Your teacher today
• In 2010 and 2011 I was teacher of Project Cycle Management in the Master in Relations with
Eastern Countries of the University of Macerata
• In 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 I was teacher of Project Cycle Management in this course
• Since 2010 I am partner of t33, a consulting firm supporting public bodies in managing and
evaluating EU programmes and projects
• Today I am more a project evaluator than a proposal writer and a project manager
Your teacher’s experience
• I have been working for:
– Local authorities
– Regional/local agencies of development
– Regions
– Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
– SMEs
Section 2
“Project Cycle Management for International Development
Cooperation: Applied” course
presentation
Project Cycle Management
• This course is strongly related with the job dimension
• We have to get familiar with two different job positions:
– Proposal writing
– Project management
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!
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
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
What about you?
• Do you have any experience in this field?
• Are you more a proposal writer or a project manager?
• What are in your opinion the competencies, which are necessary to cover these
positions?
• What are the organisations where such positions exist?
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
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
Our lessons
• Complementarity with “Project Cycle Management: Theory”
• Total of this course: 20 hours
Our methodology
• Lectures
• Case histories
• Exercises
Strengths
• Related to the actual job dimension
• Operational, concrete
• International (and this class helps!)
• Oriented towards socially, environmentally, economically sustainable development
• Based on real projects
Weaknesses
• Limited scientific background, totally
dependent on the European Commission
• Linked to the teacher’s professional experience
• More experimented in courses for
professionals than in courses for academic students
Opportunities
• Good basis for a training period
• Course to be mentioned in a job interview
• “Proposal writer” and “Project manager”
positions exist in all organisations working on a project basis
• More and more organisations have started to work on a project basis
Threats
• Case histories will be old when you will approach the job dimension
• Project management tools will be more advanced when you will approach the job dimension: think of the new programming period 2014-2020!
A basic PM bibliography
• Project Cycle Management Guidelines, European Commission, March 2004
http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/infopoint/publications/i ndex_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
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