This program  training on project appraisals and impact evaluation, gives the participants the vital skills and knowledge to successfully appraise and analyze projects.  It offers you the newest techniques and tools to handle project risks as well as uncertainties to guarantee profit margins as well as sustainability in times that are uncertain. It'll in higher level cover econometric effect evaluation theory and empirical ways for measuring effect of development plans (including randomization, regression discontinuity, and propensity rating matching). Practice and theory will be combined

Program Objectives:

• Undertake, Economic, Risk, Technical, & Financial Analysis to choose Projects to meet up with Organisational Objectives

• Conduct Financial Analysis applying Payback, IRR, and NPV

• Measuring and identifying Uncertainties and Risk

• Evaluate as well as Manage Risks with the latest techniques and tools

• Manage Uncertainties with Decisions Trees, Gannt Charts, Critical Path Analysis

 • Identifying whether the project is performing or perhaps not, impact assessment will help accountability function.

Who can attend?

This program focuses on Project Management Officials from NGO's, National Statistics Offices, Education Researchers, Government ministries, National Institutes as well as Planning Ministries, Central banks, as well as Faculty Researchers among others.

The Course Content

Module One:  Project Appraisal & Analysis

  o   The Investment Criteria & The Investment Planning Process

o   Identifying Technical, Logistical & Environmental Risks

o   Economic Risk Analysis

o   Market Risk Analysis

o   Selecting Projects to meet Organisational Objectives

Module Two: Financial Analysis

  o   Estimating Income, Cashflows & Durations

o   Identifying Risks from the Projected Cashflow

o   Calculating the Cost of Finance – WACC, CAPM & Arbitrage Pricing

o   Capital Investment Appraisal Techniques - Payback; ARR, NPV, IRR etc.

o   Financial Appraisal using Spreadsheet Skills

Module Three: Project Risk & Uncertainties

  o   Measuring Risk & Uncertainties

o   Project Constraints

o   Balancing Scope, Time, Quality & Cost

o   Evaluating the Risks & Uncertainties – Their Likelihood & Impact

o   Risk Response Planning & Reporting

Module Four: Risk Management

 o   The Risk Management Process at various levels of an organization and throughout the Project Life Cycle

o   The Project Manager’s Roles and Responsibilities

o   Qualitative & Quantitative Risk Analysis

o   Financial Risk Management & Derivatives

o   Sensitivity Analysis & Monte Carlo Simulation Analysis

Module Five: Managing Uncertainties

  o   Decisions Trees to Manage Uncertainties and make Strategic Decisions

o   Programming Techniques – Gannt Charts, Network & Critical Path Analysis

o   Manpower Planning and Resource Smoothing & Levelling

o   Project Contingency Planning

o   Earned Value Analysis – Controlling Cost & Schedule Variances

Module Six: Cost benefit analysis

  o   The effect on decision-making of more intangible benefits

o   Cost benefit analysis

o   Ensuring costs are genuine

o   Measuring intangible benefits

o   Environmental issues

o   Consideration of intangible benefits in the appraisal decision-making process

Module Seven: Developing appropriate models

  o   Developing models – examples of spreadsheet models and measures for many different situations

o   Modelling investment opportunities – summarising outcomes

o   Sensitivity analysis – identifying, quantifying and taking out risk

Module Eight: Developing an appraisal process

  o   The process – managing risk from the outset

o   Using the process in risk management, negotiating and project management

o   Take out risk by thoroughly knowing your project – developing your own process

Module Nine: Introduction to impact evaluation

  o   Introduction

o   Counterfactual

o   Purpose of impact evaluation

o   When to undertake impact evaluation

Module Ten: Evaluation Design

  o   Establishing the program theory

o   Selecting the evaluation approach

o   Designing the baseline survey

o   Options when there is no baseline

o   Impact evaluation using secondary data

o   The role of qualitative information

o   Triangulation

o   Generalizations from specific impact evaluations

Module Eleven: Managing and Implementing Impact Evaluation

  o   Terms of reference

o   Data sources

o   Time and cost