The document provides an overview of project cycle management. It defines project cycle management as a process of planning, guiding, monitoring, and evaluating projects to achieve goals and objectives on time and within budget. The document outlines the key steps in project cycle management as identification, formulation, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. It also defines the roles and necessary skills of an effective project manager.

1. Project Cycle Management Overview
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2. Objectives
• Provide definition of Project Cycle Management
• Differentiate between the Project Cycle Management & General
Management
• Evaluate the good characteristics of Project Cycle Management
• Give definition of Project Manager and its roles
• Identify the important steps of project cycle management
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3. Presentation outline
• Definition of Project Management
• Differences between Project Management and General
Management
• Steps in Project Cycle Management
• Good Project Characteristics
• Sample of Important Tools used in Project Management
• Definition, roles and skills of Project Manager
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Definition of Project Cycle
Management
Project Cycle Management (PCM) is a process in planning,
guiding/coaching, monitoring and evaluating to achieve Project goals and
objectives according to timeline and resources identified.

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Project Mgt. VS General Mgt.
Proj. Mgt General Mgt
• Each Project Management has
its own special characteristics
different from other project
• Specific time frame
• Resulting in changes (big or
small scale of changes) within
specific time frame
• Not regular in operation
• Each project objective weighed
differently depends on
expected changed the project
will deliver
• Temporary project team work
• Routine work
• Open ended time for
operation
• Gradually bringing changes
• Operating regularly
• Every objective weighed
equally in order to maintain
status quo
• Rather permanent team work

6. Steps in PCM
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Project Cycle
Management
Project/Problem
Identification
Project
Formulation and
Preparation
Project
Implementation
Project
Monitoring &
Evaluation

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Good Project Characteristics
 Responding to stakeholders’ interest
 Creates confidence
 M&E friendly
 Plan for project review, improvement included
 Educational and lessons learned process embedded
 Clear communication plan

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Project Manager
Project Manager is a person who assists/supports, facilitates,
coaches, monitors/follows up and evaluate the operation of the
project in order to ensure a success of deliveries in responding
to each project objective according to the identified timeline and
resources.

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Tools used in PCM
 Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat, (SWOT)
 Problem Tree Analysis (PTA)
 Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA)
 Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)
 Fishbone Analysis (FA)
 Force Field Analysis (FF)
 Spider Diagram (SD)

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Key Roles of Project Manager:
 Project planning
 Budgeting
 Staff/team building
 Work plan formulation
 Supervising and monitoring

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Required Skills for Project Manager
 Leadership skill
 Managerial skill
 Problem solving skill
 Negotiating and coordinating skill
 Inter-personal skill and team management
 Risk mitigation and management skill

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