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Project Concept

(Discussion note)

Training Materials

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Session I: Objective

After the completion of this discussion,participants will be able to explain the:

interrelationship between the PLAN,

PLANNING, PROGRAMME & PROJECT,

concept of a project and project cycle;

uniqueness of a project; and

project concept note

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Understanding theInterrelationship between

Plan, Planning, Program,

Project

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Plan, Planning,

Programme and Project

Plan?

A plan is a vision or map to

represent the form and/orfeature of desired situation.

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Beauty and success of plan,

programme and projects

Beauty of a plan depends upon the visionary

clarity of planner/s.

Beauty of the programmes and projects

depends upon their consistency with the plan.

Success of the plan depends upon the success

of its programmes and projects

Success of projects depends upon theadequacy of resources (fin, tech, human,

infrastructure and management )

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is a process to formulate a plan.

It involves a pre-consideration

ofresource estimation

an action drive to put the planinto operation. It involves a

commitment of resources.

Planning??

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PlanningPlan formulation

PlanningImplementation

Feed back

Plan

Propos

ed

Plan

Appro

ved

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Programme?

A programme is the extensive

and consistent set of

interrelated projects those are

required to achieve the

objectives and goal of set plan.

A plan consists a numberof programmesA plan consists a numberof programmes

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Projects are the specific action units or

schemes designated for the investment of given

set of resources (human, finance, technology, time

etc). in order to achieve the predeterminedobjective/s.

Projects are the building blocks of a program

and programmes are the integrated blocks of

development plan.

Projects remain at the bottom level of any plan

(community plan, district plan, national plan etc.).

Project ?

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Plan Programand Project

Increase rice production by 20% and

improve economic status of farmersPlan

To increase by 20% rice, we need

Irrigation

Seed

Fertilizer, insecticide, pesticide

Agri-loan

Technical human resource Agri-marketing

.

Program

Projects

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Broad

Decisions

ActionOutlines

ActionExecution

Development

orSectoral

Plans

Programmes

PLAN

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L

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V

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N

C

Y

Plan, Programs and Projects

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Alternative view of

Plan, Programs and Projects

PLANPLAN

PROGRA

MME

PROJ

ECT

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Type and Nature ofProjects

Classification of Projects

Basis Type and Nature of Projects

Sector: non-industrial or industrial

Ownership: private orpublic

Output: goods or service producing

Motto: profit or non-profit oriented

Scale; small, medium, large

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Project characteristics in

common

Every project must have its:

Objective Investment

Space

System

Cycle

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Project Cycle and its

Phases

Phase III

Implement-ation

M&EPhase III

AppraisalProject

A

Project

B

Phase IIdentification

Phase II

Formulation

Phase II

Formulation

Phase IV

Implementation,

M&E

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Uniqueness

Every project will have its ownuniqueness because ofitslocational, climatic, socio-cultural

and other situational factors.

So it is not practicable to copy and

implement a project in ditto fromone location or situation to anotherlocation and situation.

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A

B

C

Plan 1

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2

3..

Programmes

Projects

Instruction

Give an example of interrelationship between Plan,

Programme and Project in your organizational or

professional context

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For your kind information, the following publications are

available from my pen.

Guidelines for Improving Your Skills in Project Proposal

Writing with LFA, Report Writing and Report

Presentation Fifth and Enlarged Edition 2008, In Nepaliversion also 2006

Daibi Prokop Tatha Prokop Vayvasthapan, 2062

B.S. (Disaster and Disaster Management: General

Concept and Nepalese Context, in Nepali).

Fundamentals of Monitoring and Evaluation, 2007

People's Participation: Lesson for Better Planningpublished in 1999 by NASC.

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