11.4.2 Poverty Alleviation Project Planning

POVERTY ALLEVIATION

PROJECT PLANNING

UPA Package 1, Module 4

21.4.2 Poverty Alleviation Project Planning

Project Management

Objective

• enable the students to discuss and analyse the concepts and procedures of planning poverty alleviation projects

31.4.2 Poverty Alleviation Project Planning

Project Identification, Formulation, Prelim Design

• Identification of possible projects from established sources of ideas

• Project formulation: identification of key factors vital to project

• Preliminary design: business plan containing details of project manager and implementation agency; project description; project capital estimate (labor,materials, training,etc.), time and funding plans, cash flow, maintenance and recurrent expenditure; commitment ot labor intensive technology if feasible, conformity with guidelines on community participation, environment, employment policy, and capacity building.

41.4.2 Poverty Alleviation Project Planning

Project Preparation

• Full rationale• Feasibility analysis• Plan schedule• Cost estimate

51.4.2 Poverty Alleviation Project Planning

Feasibility Analysis

• Justification of a project as a whole in all its relevant dimensions (technical, financial,and so forth)

• Provides framework to reformulate the preliminary design

• Guides implementation of a project• Includes criteria and baseline measures to monitor

and evaluate a [project during and after its implemntation)

61.4.2 Poverty Alleviation Project Planning

Project Appraisal

• Project appraisal: comparing alternative courses of action formulated during initial planning phases

• Analysis conducted before a project is selected, funded, and implemented