Created for the Training Course for Youth Workers financed by the Erasmus+ programme https://yepyouthempowementpriorities.wordpress.com/ Some techniques to write effective project. They focused on the Problem Tree and Solution Tree tools. A problem tree provides an overview of all the known causes and effect to an identified problem. This is important in planning a community engagement or behaviour change project as it establishes the context in which a project is to occur. Understanding the context helps reveal the complexity of life and this is essential in planning a successful change project.

1. 29/08/2015 Elisabetta Meconcelli 1
Social and European Project Design for Non
Profit Associations
YEP! Youth Empowerment
Priorities
Florence 23-31 August 2015

2. What a project is
Designing a project means implement initiatives, small and
large, addressed to their community, taking certain
characteristics:
 defined objectives
 uniqueness
 limited duration
 limited resources
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Design a project is like
planning
The duties of those who have the responsibility to
organize an initiative are:
 give a logical order to the conduct of operations to
an expected result;
 involve the resources (human, material etc.)
suitable for implementation of the initiative;
 organize the work in full respect of the times.

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The project generates projects
The project should represent not only an
opportunity to respond to a real need found,
but also an incentive for the development
and implementation of new initiatives.

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Why do a project?
The project is a RESPONSE to a REAL
need
THE PROJECT MUST JUSTIFY THE
FINANCING

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Why do an european project?
4 GOOD REASONS BEYOND THE PERSPECTIVE
OF FINANCING:
1. opportunity to introduce
INNOVATION
2. opportunity to exchange
experiences INTERNATIONALLY (EU)

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Why do an european project?
3. opportunities for PERSONAL and
PROFESSIONAL GROWTH and
improvement of the organization
4. opportunities of VISIBILITY and
VALIDATION through the project

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How to turn an idea into a
project?

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STAGES OF THE PROJECT
DESIGN
1. the definition of the premises or the analysis of the
context;
2. data research and analysis of needs;
3. the definition of the expected result;
4. the definition of goals and objectives;
5. work planning;
6. the financial planning;
7. the economic reporting;
8. the evaluation.

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How to analyze the needs and find
objectives
2 TOOLS
1. PROBLEM TREE
2. SOLUTION TREE

11. Problem Tree
Steps:
1. Start from an issue of your community
 High obesity levels in youth in Firenze
2. Analyze the opportunity of your project
 Stakeholders, Target Group, Time, Money, Resources
3. Gather competences and Resources
 Team building  Jhon
Maria
 Missing skills?
 Goals are clear for everyone?
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Marketing
Web Development
Event Management

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High Obesity Levels in Youth
Cause 1: Lack of information on
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Indirect Cause: Lack of
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schools
Cause 2: Access to junk food in
schools
Indirect Cause 2…
Cause 3: … Indirect Cause 3 …
!One Project = One Issue!

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Direct effect 1: poor health -
hearth diseases, etc.
Indirect effect: Higher mortality
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Direct effect2: phisical
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Indirect effect: lower selfestime,
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16. Solution Tree
Makes the problem tree POSITIVE
 Direct Causes = Goals
 Indirect Causes = Activities
Direct Effects = Results
Indirect Effects = Imapcts
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17. Solution tree:
make problem tree positive
Cause 1: lack of information on healthy diets
Cause 2 : access to junk food in schools
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Goal 1: Inform Young people on
healthy diets
Goal 2: Ban junk food in schools

18. Solution tree:
make problem tree positive
Direct Effect: higher risk of hearth diseases
Indirect Effect: increased costs on healthcare
Indirect Cause: no regulation about junk food
in schools
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Result : Lower risk of hearth diseases
Impact: reduced costs on healthcare
Activity: campaign to change
regulation about junk food

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20. Smarter Goals
Once you have set your goals make
them SMARTER
Specific
Mesurables
Achievable
Realstic and Relevant
Time Bound
Evaluate
Reevaluate
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21. Smarter Goals
Our goal 1 is
poorly written 
SMARTER Goal 1:
Organize an information campaign from 1 st of
June 2016 to 30 th of August 2016 in the
Florence highschool “Gramsci””Michelangelo”,
to inform 1500 youngsters about healthy diet
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Inform Young people on
healthy diets

22. SIMULATION
 In the perifery of Istanbul there is a high rate
of early school leaving between students
among 12-18 years.
 A group of schools want to change this
situation
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