Project Cycle Management Training Handbook - CFCU

Project Cycle Management Training Handbook
Never hesitate to
demand the right
information
Build on evidence
of past success!
• The Overall Objective should explain how the project fits into the
national or sectoral objectives of the Commission and the partner
government or institution. If there is not a clear linkage to higherlevel
objectives, then further information may be required to justify
the project’s relevance to the sector or country programme.
• On the basis of the information in the project proposal, it should be
possible to formulate a Project Purpose that describes the benefits
to be derived by the target group through use of the services
provided by the project (the Results). If this is not the case, then
further information is required to justify the project’s relevance to
target group needs.
• If a Project Purpose can be formulated correctly on the basis of
information contained in the proposal, but the Results to be
provided by the project may seem logically insufficient to achieve
the anticipated benefits, then further information may be required
on where any additionally-required services will come from.
• The stated actions or Activities of the project may not be logically
sufficient to achieve its Results. Further information will be
required on precisely how the delivery of Results can be assured.
• The proposal may include a description of external factors that lie
outside the scope of the project but will nonetheless influence the
likelihood that project objectives will be achieved. You may
identify other factors not mentioned in the document, but based on
your own experience of this or similar projects, and of the sector or
country involved. All of these factors should be included in the
logframe, and stated in positive terms, as if they had been realised
In addition to an assessment of the project’s logical coherence, it is of
course important always to look for past evidence of success or
failure, which may ensure that the project’s design will build on the
lessons of experience.
Output �� Intervention logic & assumptions
Overall
Objective
Project
Purpose
Results
Activities
Infant mortality
rate reduced
Increased %
treated through
PHC system
Clinics held
regularly
Replace mobile
clinic vehicles &
equipment
IN OUT
Standards of
patient care
improved
Sufficient drugs
available
Reduced rate of
infection among
babies & infants
Calorific intake of
babies & infants
increased
Upgrade staff skills Institute new drug Mothers willing to
storage & control attend mobile
procedures
clinics
Questions
Feasibility 1
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