PROJECT PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

This module looks at development in project framework. It also discusses the management concept in development projects. The module also analyses the project cycle and the guidelines to project proposal writing. Project planning and management course is meant to prepare students to confront the challenges of organization?s project?s success. More often than not, most projects are started but never live to their expectations. This is the very reason why most developing world countries are poor, because they have inadequate knowledge, skills and capacity to organize their activities and resources into meaningful ventures. When they do organize their resources they always fail to manage them, the result is waste of resources and frustrations of implementers. Therefore, the course will expose students to dynamics of planning and management skills that will foster student?s abilities to think through ideas, which they will later translate into managing development ventures. It is hoped that all students of project planning and management will by the end of the course plan and write an implementable project. The course will take the following into consideration: the emerging challenges that many planners and project managers? experience, why most project fail, discuss the project development cycle and examine the dynamics of project management and lastly expose students to project write ups and budgeting.