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2014 TRAINING CALENDAR

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Published: Sunday 10 August 2014 12:22

Module 1: PROGRAMS / PROJECTS AND RISK MANAGEMENT

Module 2: THE RESULTS MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK (RMF) GOING BEYOND THE STANDARD M & E

Module 3 : NEGOTIATION AND DONORS FINANCIAL RESOURCES MOBILIZATION TECHNIQUES

Module 4: PENSION FUND MANAGEMENT

Module 1: PROGRAMS / PROJECTS AND RISK MANAGEMENT

Objectives. This workshop aims to familiarize project managers and decision makers with the latest concepts of programs/projects and risk management. These programs/projects are subjects to interrelated, multidimensional and complex risks. The optimal management of these risks requires the know-how on Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). This new risk management approach consists on an integrated and global management of various risks. At the end of this training, participants will be able to understand the key steps to designing a development project. They will also acquire the aptitude to identify, quantify, monitor, manage and control the main risks facing development programs/projects.

Topics:

• Project cycle
• Logical framework
• M & E
• Identification and quantification of risks
• Risk management process of a project
• Tools and techniques of risk management

Module 2: THE RESULTS MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK (RMF) GOING BEYOND THE STANDARD M & E

Objectives. The success of a country does not depend eitheron the amount of money spent or on the number ofprojects and programs implemented, but essentially onresults achieved on the ground in terms of populationwelfare improvement. The Results MeasurementFramework (RMF) enables to show and monitor whata country has achieved in terms of sustainable development, i.e., improvement in the welfare ofits population and results. The RMF goes beyond the MfDR and the Monitoring & Evaluation by identifying success factors and improvement needed to be made to the execution system at the operational and institutional levels. Thus, the RMF allows the identification and removal of the constraints in the project implementation cycle. It is then critical for each public administration, implementing development projects and programs, to design a RMF.

Topics:

• Overview of development project cycle
• Definition of RMF
• Measuring progress
• Projects and programs contribution
• Operational and institutional management

Module 3 : NEGOTIATION AND DONORS FINANCIAL RESOURCES MOBILIZATION TECHNIQUES

Objectives. Human interactions are governed by negotiation, which is found at all levels of life both at personal as well as professional. This training will improve participants’ expertise to conduct negotiations, to negotiate agreements where nothing is decided in advance, and become familiar with different modes of negotiations. In addition, the workshop will present techniques to mobilize donor’s financial resources for development projects. Case studies of negotiations with multilateral development agencies (World Bank, ADB, IMF…) will be studied for external resources mobilization.

Topics:

• Basics negotiation techniques
• Negotiation steps
• Result of a negotiation
• Type of donors financial resources
• Techniques of financial resources mobilization
• Overview of the main multilateral developmentagencies (World Bank, ADB, IMF,...)
• Case study of negotiation with multilateraldevelopment agencies

Module 4: PENSION FUND MANAGEMENT

Objectives. The changing structure of the demographic profile and the multiple turbulences that disturbed the financial market request retirement fund and pension decision makers to better understand the new challenges of the functioning as well as the dynamics of this sector. This workshop aims to allow participants to better understand how the retirement fund works. At the end of this workshop, participants are expected to understand administration and governing methods of retirement funds management, as well as the challenges of financing these funds. They will be initiated to the evaluation tools and the risks management techniques for retirement funds.

Topics:

• Governance and administration of retirement funds
• Investment politics for retirement funds
• Financing and evaluation
• Risks management and challenges

Download the Training Program 2014 in english CESS Institute.pdf