The New Project Design and Management Workshop Training Manual
Washington, DC: Peace Corps (2000), 174 pp.
"In the project design and management (PDM) workshop, Volunteers and their Counterparts learn how to involve the community members in moving from their analysis to planning and implementing projects that meet their desires and needs. Some general goals of the PDM workshop for the Peace Corps include: 1. To reinforce the philosophy of community participation, and provide additional methodologies for involving community members in designing and implementing their own projects; 2. To enhance the Peace Corps Volunteers’ outreach capabilities; 3. To build host country national community development skills and strengthen the relationship between Volunteer and Counterpart." (Pages 1-2)
"Project Design and Management workshops have been offered for many years as In-Service Trainings for Volunteers and their Counterparts. This manual builds on an earlier title, Small Project Design and Management, experience with the materials, and more recent work done by Peace Corps in Gender and Development, strength-based approaches, and participatory processes. In many ways this manual is the community action planning supplement to Participatory Analysis for Community Action (ICE No. M0054). Materials were piloted at workshops in Guatemala, Senegal, Jordan, and Romania through an Inter-Agency Agreement between the Peace Corps and the United States Agency for International Development." (Acknowledgements, page v)
GUIDELINES FOR PLANNING A PROJECT DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP, 1
Tips for PDM Workshop Trainers, 10
PDM Session Grid, 12
Definition of Terms (As Used in This Manual), 16
Resources and Reference Materials, 20
SESSION PLANS, 23
Session 1. Success Stories in the Community: Characteristics of Effective Projects, 25
Session 2. Assets and Deficits: Identifying our Resources and Expectations, 31
Session 3. Steps in Project Planning, 37
Session 4. Participatory Analysis and Priority-Setting with the Community, 44
Session 5. Desires, Needs, or Problems? Understanding the Difference, 57
Session 6. The Project Design: Part 1 – Vision, Assets, and Strategies, 64
Session 7. The Project Design: Part 2 – Goals, Objectives, Signs of Success, and Feasibility Test, 81
Session 8. Action Plan: Identifying and Sequencing Tasks, 88
Session 9. Action Plan: Assigning Roles and Responsibilities, 93
Session 10. Action Plan: Making the Timeline, 98
Session 11. Monitoring and Evaluation Planning, 101
Session 12. Resource Identification and Budgeting, 115
Session 13. Proposal Writing and Optional Project Presentations, 126
Session 14. Funding Sources: Looking Inside and Outside the Community, 135
Session 15. Next Steps: Taking It Home to the Community, 139
Appendix A: Sample Community Project Designs, 147
Section 1. Panaderia “La Flor”, 147
Section 2. Environmental Awareness of Phu Wua Forest Sanctuary, 159
Appendix B: Working with an Interpreter, 173
Tips for PDM Workshop Trainers, 10
PDM Session Grid, 12
Definition of Terms (As Used in This Manual), 16
Resources and Reference Materials, 20
SESSION PLANS, 23
Session 1. Success Stories in the Community: Characteristics of Effective Projects, 25
Session 2. Assets and Deficits: Identifying our Resources and Expectations, 31
Session 3. Steps in Project Planning, 37
Session 4. Participatory Analysis and Priority-Setting with the Community, 44
Session 5. Desires, Needs, or Problems? Understanding the Difference, 57
Session 6. The Project Design: Part 1 – Vision, Assets, and Strategies, 64
Session 7. The Project Design: Part 2 – Goals, Objectives, Signs of Success, and Feasibility Test, 81
Session 8. Action Plan: Identifying and Sequencing Tasks, 88
Session 9. Action Plan: Assigning Roles and Responsibilities, 93
Session 10. Action Plan: Making the Timeline, 98
Session 11. Monitoring and Evaluation Planning, 101
Session 12. Resource Identification and Budgeting, 115
Session 13. Proposal Writing and Optional Project Presentations, 126
Session 14. Funding Sources: Looking Inside and Outside the Community, 135
Session 15. Next Steps: Taking It Home to the Community, 139
Appendix A: Sample Community Project Designs, 147
Section 1. Panaderia “La Flor”, 147
Section 2. Environmental Awareness of Phu Wua Forest Sanctuary, 159
Appendix B: Working with an Interpreter, 173
