About Development Planning and Management
The course focuses on practical aspects and is designed to enable the students to develop techniques of writing project proposal. The course emphasis is on project cycle management which deals with programming, project identification, planning, appraisal, implementation and monitoring and evaluation. The course will also review the major theoretical approaches to project cycle management especially the logical framework approach. This course will additionally include the role of managers’ multifaceted aim to equip students with the theoretical knowledge of how projects should be organized; to equip students with the practical knowledge needed for each project phase and to situation these theoretical and practical aspects in the context of development. Furthermore, this course provides a means how students measure the worth of the project using investment decision making tools.