Courses

To draft a complete and coherent project under high competition conditions often discourages organizations from applying to funding calls. Those who apply often end up spending a lot of time and resources writing unsuccessful project proposals because of lack of trained staff to translate the needs of the organization into projects that are attractive to funding institutions.

Community development planning and management courses will help participants to develop a technique for analysis and elaboration of the project proposal that maximizes the possibilities that organizations obtain the funds.

In addition to the theoretical classes, the courses provide project design practices, which are a fundamental to understand the planning processes for community development. Students will face the tasks of beneficiary involvement and analysis for project design in a real development project that is being proposed in the region.

In the program of the Unit of Planning and Development the training for the community development is made up of 4 levels:

This course aims to teach project structure and logic, how data are taken and elaborated, what is the process for analyzing community problems, how to develop shared strategies, how to collaborate with the actors involved and to understand which institutions can support or finance activities;

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It is the second-level course and focuses on the development of strategies; we teach how to interpret the data, analyses and studies made with the stakeholders (for example during the previous course), in order to elaborate a vision of development shared with the community. During the course it will be taught to develop the structure of the logical framework to build a coherent and sustainable project that can be proposed to the funding institutions.

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It is the third level, in which we teach how strategies and analyses are translated in project writing: we teach how to write a project. In project writing every word counts, the synthesis is extremely important and it is necessary that the prerogatives of the community are taken into account together with the requirements of the institutions that support our actions. It is also very important to elaborate the budget and the complete description of the activities to be carried out in coherent forms. In this course we train students to bring community motivations together with the conditions that institutions impose on the call. In short, we teach how to write and deliver a project proposal to be approved and funded.

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It is the last level of training that we offer and focuses on how the development plan is managed, using monitoring and evaluation techniques so that everything goes according to the plan. This phase is fundamental to fulfill the conditions laid down in the different stages of the plan, enabling the following financing stages be delivered. It will be taught how to write a monitoring report that evaluates the fulfillment of all the phases of the project and to review the conditions for accomplishing the general objective and the specific objectives foreseen in the plan.

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