Satisfaction through new insights !
A training experience with PMI (Project Management Institute) certified Project Managers who coach teachers in introducing ‘project thinking’ in primary and secondary schools in Portugal.
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And of course the LFA methodology is applicable to any type and any scope of project and programme.
The videographer was Simon Mora, a very pleasant professional Venezuelan from Rome!
It appears that still quite some confusion exists about the LFA. Therefore I post this clarification here.
The LFA method (Logical Framework Analysis) is the fundamental tool of Project Cycle Management (PCM) and Results-Based Management (RBM).
LFA is step-by-step procedure applying specific techniques in a participatory workshop setting for gathering a thorough picture of a problematic situation as perceived from different perspectives (stakeholders). We call that picture the ‘ANCHOR’ of the project, which will reflect the RELEVANCE of a possible intervention addressing those problems.
When being questioned “Why this project”? most people answer, for example: ‘production will raise’ …, or ‘improving the efficiency’…., or ‘raised professionalism’ …., etc., etc..
And if you are creative you may come up with endless of such arguments in a brainstorming session.
All these answers are expectations or opportunities and might indeed materialize in future. Although that ‘day-dreaming’ is considered interesting and energizing by the participants, it does not actually require knowledge on the actual current situation. And you can question whether those ‘arguments’ form a sufficient justification to support the project. On the contrary!
I had no clue what I would run into when I signed my contract with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to join a dairy training project in Tanzania that was about the establishment of a Dairy Training Centre, called LITI Buhuri. Of course I could do the project as I graduated as a Tropical Animal Production Expert! Haha, what a mistake!
That is how villagers in Afghanistan get ‘motivated’ to build their own latrines!
Community-Led Total Sanitation, or CLTS as it is called is apparently quite successful and needs to be scaled up in order to achieve Open Defecation Free Afghanistan by the year 2025. However, its success depends mainly on the quality of the facilitators who manages the process at the community level and lead the villagers into this rather confrontational process. “The walk of shame” being one of the key activities is literally a tour together with the community members around the village to identify places where open defecation is practised. It is even customary to trace the persons who ‘committed this crime’. Learning the implications through embarrassment seems to motivate people to change their behaviour and build their own latrine without the subsidy as is common in many other programmes.