Preamble The world health organization (WHO) and UNESCO promoting socio-economic development in third-world countries have created a program called Providing The New Hope to Africa through IT. This program seeks to offer low-level middle-income countries in Africa financial support of $2 billion dollars in resolving health and educational challenges in the region. In order to have granular control of the monies to be disbursed, they have nominated several countries in Africa to benefit from which Ghana is part. To understand the various challenges within each region, they have set up a PMO that is requesting young talented individuals to send their proposals on either a challenge in education, health, or agric in the country that they believe can be resolved through the use of information technology. It must be however noted that the programs region manager when interviewed on Al Jazeera, bemoaned that some countries in Africa, have policy-based problems, thus these policies must be addressed rather than focusing on technology resolutions. This however as reported by Kal Lumpur, the social development journalist, in her words is in contradiction to the theme of the UNESCO-WHO program. And it may have implications on which country benefits from the funds. Thomas Lucas, the Chief Information Officer of UNESCO, Belgium thinks that technology is still the only Africa that can eradicate most of their challenges when asked during the football march between Manchester United and Dortmund, last week. He further wished all the young Africans who had intentions of submitting their applications a goodluck. This year, UNESCO and WHO have defined a unified objective under the theme: Challenging the challenging times through technology. Instructions You are required to submit your proposal to this contest with the context given. You are to think clearly and critically about the proposal you are submitting. It must be a winning proposal that looks at the right PROBLEM and solves it with the right approach. Understand the stakeholder politics and the organization's culture. Employ Bolman and Deal framework to visualize these two organizations and how they affect the project you will be embarking upon. 2 Requirement The program requires that the document presented by the team must demonstrate the following; 1. A clear understanding of the intricacies of the problem through a systems thinking approach. 2. This should include the as-is situation and the challenges that come about if the problem is tackled. 3. A deep dive into the stakeholders with each priority is attached. (This requires a stakeholder register). 4. A well-organized project charter clearly indicates the quadruple constraints. 5. A business case must be presented for the project. (This is justification for the project) 6. The solution presented must be clearly justified and well-thought through 7. A clearly defined budget must be included in your proposal. 8. The foreseeable challenges must be a.

1. Preamble
The world health organization (WHO) and UNESCO promoting socio-economic development in
third-world countries have created a program called Providing The New Hope to Africa through
IT. This program seeks to offer low-level middle-income countries in Africa financial support of
$2 billion dollars in resolving health and educational challenges in the region. In order to have
granular control of the monies to be disbursed, they have nominated several countries in Africa
to benefit from which Ghana is part. To understand the various challenges within each region,
they have set up a PMO that is requesting young talented individuals to send their proposals on
either a challenge in education, health, or agric in the country that they believe can be resolved
through the use of information technology.
It must be however noted that the programs region manager when interviewed on Al Jazeera,
bemoaned that some countries in Africa, have policy-based problems, thus these policies must be
addressed rather than focusing on technology resolutions. This however as reported by Kal
Lumpur, the social development journalist, in her words is in contradiction to the theme of the
UNESCO-WHO program. And it may have implications on which country benefits from the
funds.
Thomas Lucas, the Chief Information Officer of UNESCO, Belgium thinks that technology is
still the only Africa that can eradicate most of their challenges when asked during the football
march between Manchester United and Dortmund, last week. He further wished all the young
Africans who had intentions of submitting their applications a goodluck.
This year, UNESCO and WHO have defined a unified objective under the theme: Challenging
the challenging times through technology.
Instructions
You are required to submit your proposal to this contest with the context given. You are to think
clearly and critically about the proposal you are submitting. It must be a winning proposal that
looks at the right PROBLEM and solves it with the right approach. Understand the stakeholder
politics and the organization's culture. Employ Bolman and Deal framework to visualize these
two organizations and how they affect the project you will be embarking upon.
2
Requirement
The program requires that the document presented by the team must demonstrate the following;
1. A clear understanding of the intricacies of the problem through a systems thinking approach.

2. 2. This should include the as-is situation and the challenges that come about if the problem is
tackled.
3. A deep dive into the stakeholders with each priority is attached. (This requires a stakeholder
register).
4. A well-organized project charter clearly indicates the quadruple constraints.
5. A business case must be presented for the project. (This is justification for the project)
6. The solution presented must be clearly justified and well-thought through
7. A clearly defined budget must be included in your proposal.
8. The foreseeable challenges must be addressed should the solution be adopted.
9. The group must demonstrate their critical thinking skills in the project
Preamble
The world health organization (WHO) and UNESCO promoting socio-economic development in
third-world countries have created a program called Providing The New Hope to Africa through
IT. This program seeks to offer low-level middle-income countries in Africa financial support of
$2 billion dollars in resolving health and educational challenges in the region. In order to have
granular control of the monies to be disbursed, they have nominated several countries in Africa
to benefit from which Ghana is part. To understand the various challenges within each region,
they have set up a PMO that is requesting young talented individuals to send their proposals on
either a challenge in education, health, or agric in the country that they believe can be resolved
through the use of information technology.
It must be however noted that the programs region manager when interviewed on Al Jazeera,
bemoaned that some countries in Africa, have policy-based problems, thus these policies must be
addressed rather than focusing on technology resolutions. This however as reported by Kal
Lumpur, the social development journalist, in her words is in contradiction to the theme of the
UNESCO-WHO program. And it may have implications on which country benefits from the
funds.
Thomas Lucas, the Chief Information Officer of UNESCO, Belgium thinks that technology is
still the only Africa that can eradicate most of their challenges when asked during the football
march between Manchester United and Dortmund, last week. He further wished all the young
Africans who had intentions of submitting their applications a goodluck.
This year, UNESCO and WHO have defined a unified objective under the theme: Challenging
the challenging times through technology.
Instructions
You are required to submit your proposal to this contest with the context given. You are to think
clearly and critically about the proposal you are submitting. It must be a winning proposal that
looks at the right PROBLEM and solves it with the right approach. Understand the stakeholder

3. politics and the organization's culture. Employ Bolman and Deal framework to visualize these
two organizations and how they affect the project you will be embarking upon.
2
Requirement
The program requires that the document presented by the team must demonstrate the following;
1. A clear understanding of the intricacies of the problem through a systems thinking approach.
2. This should include the as-is situation and the challenges that come about if the problem is
tackled.
3. A deep dive into the stakeholders with each priority is attached. (This requires a stakeholder
register).
4. A well-organized project charter clearly indicates the quadruple constraints.
5. A business case must be presented for the project. (This is justification for the project)
6. The solution presented must be clearly justified and well-thought through
7. A clearly defined budget must be included in your proposal.
8. The foreseeable challenges must be addressed should the solution be adopted.
9. The group must demonstrate their critical thinking skills in the project