Training Course on Project Appraisal and Impact Evaluation

This course will provide participants with skills and knowledge to evaluate and analyze projects. It is based on current tools and techniques used to manage project risks and uncertainties about sustainable profitability. The main purpose of the course is to provide its partakers with knowledge and skills to understand the value and practice of impact assessments in developing economies to develop and implement impact evaluation.

Participants who successfully complete the course will receive a Certificate of Participation.

OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course the participants will be able to:

• Carryout technical, economic, financial, and risk analysis to select projects that meet the objectives of the state and the organization
• Conduct financial analysis using Payback, NPV and IPR
• Identify and measure risks
• Manage and evaluate risks using the latest tools and techniques
• 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

DURATION

This course will take 10 days

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This course is intended for project management official from non-governmental organizations, National statistics offices, researchers, governmental ministries, Planning ministries, and financial institutions, among other

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1: Project Appraisal and Analysis

• Criteria of investment and the planning process of investments
• Identification of Technical, logistic, and environmental risks
• Analysis of economic risk
• Analysis of market risk
• Selection of projects meeting objectives of an organizations

Module 2: Financial Analysis

• Income, Cash-flow, and durations estimation
• Identification of projected cash-flow risks
• Calculation of finance costs- WACC, CAPM, and Arbitrage Pricing
• Techniques of capital investments appraisal – Payback, APR, NPV, IRR
• Using spreadsheets skills for financial appraisal

Module 3: Project Risk and Appraisal

• Risk and uncertainty measuring
• Constraints of a project
• Balancing scope, time, quality and cost
• Risks and uncertainty evaluation
• Planning risk response and reporting

Module 4: Risk Management

• Process of risk management throughout the lifecycles of the project
• Role and responsibilities of the project manager
• Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
• Financial risk management and derivatives
• Sensitivity analysis and the Monte Carlo Simulation analysis

Module 5: Managing Uncertainties

• Using the decision tree to manage uncertainties
• Programming techniques
• Manpower planning and resource smoothing and leveling
• Project contingency planning
• Earned Value Analysis

Module 6: Cost Benefit Analysis

• Cost benefit analysis
• Genuine costs
• Intangible benefits measurements
• Environmental issues
• Intangible benefits in the appraisal decision making process

Module 7: Development of Appropriate Models

• Developing models
• Investment opportunities modeling
• Sensitivity analysis

Module 8: Appraisal Process Development

• The process
• Utilization of the appraisal process in managing risks, negotiations, and project management
• Development of own process to takeout risks

Module 9: Impact Evaluation

• Introduction
• Counterfactual
• Role of impact evaluation
• Appropriate time to carryout impact evaluation

Module 10: Evaluation Design

• Establishment of a program theory
• Evaluation approach selection
• Baseline survey designing
• Options lacking a baseline
• Using secondary data in impact evaluation
• Function of qualitative information
• Triangulation
• Specific impact evaluation

Module 11: Managing and Implementing impact Evaluation

• Reference terms
• Sources of data
• Time and cost

GENERAL NOTES

• The instructor led trainings are delivered using a blended learning approach and comprises of presentations, guided sessions of practical exercise, web-based tutorials and group work. Our facilitators are seasoned industry experts with years of experience, working as professional and trainers in these fields.
• The participants should be reasonably proficient in English as all facilitation and course materials will be offered in English.
• Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be issued with a certificate.
• The training will be held at Kincaid Training Centre. The course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments and lunch.
• All participants will additionally cater for their, travel expenses, visa application, insurance, and other personal expenses.
• Accommodation and airport pickup are arranged upon request. For reservations contact the Training coordinator at Email: training@kincaiddevelopmentcenter.org or Tel: +254 724592901
• This training can also be customized to suit the needs of your institution upon request. You can have it delivered in our Kincaid Training Centre or at a convenient location.

For further inquiries, please contact us on Tel: +254 724592901 or send mail to training@kincaiddevelopmentcenter.org

Payments are due upon registration. Payment should be sent to our Bank account before commencement of training and proof of payment sent to training@kincaiddevelopmentcenter.org