This presentation focuses on project management for youth councils, including definitions, terms, strategies and philosophy. It describes how to create a project charter to define and give purpose to a project, develop and maintaining schedules, assign responsibilities, monitor the performance of a project, maintain organization and create lessons learned documents.

This curriculum contains instruction on the life cycle of projects, including planning, organization, implementation, evaluation and sustainability. It also includes a set of sample forms.

Ce manuel présente une structure pour le planning stratégique et le développement des capacités locales en se servant de la méthode Planning d’objectifs (Program Planning Objectives – PPO). Cette présentation offre un plan d’action pour la planification de projet et guide le lecteur à partir de sa décision d’entamer un projet jusqu’à l’exécution de ce dernier. Il y a aussi des feuilles d’exercices pour accompagner le lecteur à travers le processus.

This brief handout on project financial management highlights budgeting, what the process can show about possible upcoming challenges, and internal controls.

The manual is intended to provide readers with a tool to design projects and write proposals. The approach is meant to build on CRS values, be locally appropriate, coherent and achieve positive results. It was produced and published in 2004 with financial support from Food For Peace. It was followed by the Project Management and Implementation Guide, also available in the Library.