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Home > Degree Programs > Teaching & Courses > 2008-2009 Course Listing > The Management of Development Assistance Projects
PED-202: The Management of Development Assistance Projects
Faculty: Stephen Peterson
Schedule
| Day | Time | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Day | 9/11 | ||
| Meet Day | T/Th | 11:40 AM - 1:00 PM | L130 |
| Review | F | 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM | T301 |
Description
The project approach continues to be one of the principal means of providing technical assistance to promote development in third world countries. Projects often under perform and frequently fail. The challenges are to ‘get something moving’ and sustained. The course distills over 20 years of project management experience by the instructor principally in Africa. The course examines a variety of areas: education, health, agriculture, civil service, and infrastructure. A baseline project is also presented (the Ethiopian financial reform) which the instructor just completed after 12 years. Specific topics covered include: the foreign aid environment, design and deliverables, strategy and tactics, recruitment and management of professional staff, the project cycle, donor/lender management, management techniques (log frames, responsibility matrices, evaluation), typical crises and how to manage them (corruption, stakeholder and staff turnover), institutionalizing, and exit.