Update on development management training from MDF

During the coming winter months MDF Training & Consultancy offers a variety of courses on Project Cycle Management (PCM) and relations with stakeholders, partners and organisations:

Project Cycle Management:

Participatory Planning

• Project cycle management and prepare a logical framework, through a participatory planning process;
  
• Relate the plan to a concise and transparent budget.
  

Monitoring of Development Interventions

• Monitor projects, programmes and organisations, turning monitoring into a learning experience;
  
• Design a logical, systematic, multi-layered monitoring system with participation of stakeholders.
  

Evaluation of Development Interventions

• Organise and steer evaluations so its results contribute to policy formulation and learning capacity of individual projects or organisations;
  
• Write comprehensive ToR for an evaluation and recommendations leading to positive adjustments in the projects.
  

Comprehensive Appraisal of Proposals

• Framework for an approach for appraisal of proposals and a set of instruments. Proposals can come from NGO's (grants) or submitted by consultancy firms

Indicators

• Develop indicators on the intervention logic for operational management as well as for policy purposes;
  
• Apply sector and thematic indicators.
  

Writing Winning Proposals

• Understand the contents of a tender dossier, call for proposals and terms of reference;
  
• Build up and write a successful project proposal.
  

Stakeholders, Partnerships, Organisations:

Multi-Stakeholder Planning Processes

• Design and organise planning processes, levelling barriers between stakeholders who collaborate in development efforts

Managing International Partnerships

• Learn how to create learning relationships with partners overseas;
  
• Communicate difficult issues with partners.
  

Group Facilitation

• Improve your personal interaction skills facilitating a group;
  
• Understand the dynamics and techniques of participative group processes;
  
• Learn methods and tools for participative decision making.
  

Organisational Development for Advisers and Consultants

• Advisers and consultants learn how to design and guide an organisational learning process from the intake up to the implementation of change;
  
• Understand and improve your own role and style as an adviser or consultant to tune them to the needs of the client organisation.
  

Get more information at www.mdf.nl