11 Topics
5 Days
Programme Overview
Training Description
Who Should Attend
- Donor and Development Partner Representatives
- Research and Evaluation Professionals
- Business Analysts
- Strategy and Planning Professionals
- Finance and Budget Professionals
- Risk Management Professionals
- Infrastructure and Investment Project Professionals
- Consultants and Researchers
- Professionals involved in project funding, appraisal, monitoring, or evaluation
Session Objectives
- Carryout technical, economic, financial, and risk analysis to select projects that meet the objectives of the state and the organization
- Carry out financial analysis using Payback, NPV and IPR
- Identify and measure risks
- Using the latest tools and techniques, manage and evaluate risks
- Use decisions trees, programming techniques, Network and Path analysis, manpower planning, contingency planning, and Gannt charts to manage uncertainties
- Identify the workability of a project
About the Course
The seminar covers the complete project appraisal and evaluation cycle, from project identification and feasibility assessment to economic appraisal, financial analysis, monitoring, outcome measurement, and impact evaluation. Participants will learn how to determine whether proposed projects are viable, assess whether investments are delivering value, and generate credible evidence to support funding, policy, and management decisions.
Through case studies, practical exercises, group discussions, and real-world project scenarios, participants will develop the ability to apply appraisal and evaluation techniques across public sector, private sector, infrastructure, NGO, development, and social investment projects.
Curriculum & Topics
11 Topics | 5 Days
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Subtopic 1.1:
Criteria of investment and the planning process of investments
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Subtopic 1.2:
Identification of Technical, logistic, and environmental risks
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Subtopic 1.3:
Analysis of economic risk
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Subtopic 1.4:
Analysis of market risk
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Subtopic 1.5:
Selection of projects meeting objectives of an organizations
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Subtopic 2.1:
Income, Cash-flow, and durations estimation
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Subtopic 2.2:
Identification of projected cash-flow risks
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Subtopic 2.3:
Calculation of finance costs- WACC, CAPM, and Arbitrage Pricing
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Subtopic 2.4:
Techniques of capital investments appraisal – Payback, APR, NPV, IRR
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Subtopic 2.5:
Using spreadsheets skills for financial appraisal
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Subtopic 3.1:
Risk and uncertainty measuring
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Subtopic 3.2:
Constraints of a project
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Subtopic 3.3:
Balancing scope, time, quality and cost
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Subtopic 3.4:
Risks and uncertainty evaluation
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Subtopic 3.5:
Planning risk response and reporting
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Subtopic 4.1:
Process of risk management throughout the lifecycles of the project
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Subtopic 4.2:
Role and responsibilities of the project manager
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Subtopic 4.3:
Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
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Subtopic 4.4:
Financial risk management and derivatives
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Subtopic 4.5:
Sensitivity analysis and the Monte Carlo Simulation analysis
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Subtopic 5.1:
Using the decision tree to manage uncertainties
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Subtopic 5.2:
Programming techniques
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Subtopic 5.3:
Manpower planning and resource smoothing and leveling
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Subtopic 5.4:
Project contingency planning
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Subtopic 5.5:
Earned Value Analysis
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Subtopic 6.1:
Cost benefit analysis
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Subtopic 6.2:
Genuine costs
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Subtopic 6.3:
Intangible benefits measurements
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Subtopic 6.4:
Environmental issues
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Subtopic 6.5:
Intangible benefits in the appraisal decision making process
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Subtopic 7.1:
Developing models
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Subtopic 7.2:
Investment opportunities modeling
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Subtopic 7.3:
Sensitivity analysis
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Subtopic 8.1:
The process
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Subtopic 8.2:
Utilization of the appraisal process in managing risks, negotiations, and project management
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Subtopic 8.3:
Development of own process to takeout risks
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Subtopic 9.1:
Introduction
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Subtopic 9.2:
Counterfactual
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Subtopic 9.3:
Role of impact evaluation
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Subtopic 9.4:
Appropriate time to carryout impact evaluation
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Subtopic 10.1:
Establishment of a program theory
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Subtopic 10.2:
Evaluation approach selection
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Subtopic 10.3:
Baseline survey designing
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Subtopic 10.4:
Options lacking a baseline
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Subtopic 10.5:
Using secondary data in impact evaluation
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Subtopic 10.6:
Function of qualitative information
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Subtopic 10.7:
Triangulation
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Subtopic 10.8:
Specific impact evaluation
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Subtopic 11.1:
Reference terms
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Subtopic 11.2:
Sources of data
