October 24-25, 2006
Project Formulation Workshop
by Ms. Junko NOGUCHI, Foundation for Advanced Study on International Development (FASID)
What is project?
Project is to achieve concerete objectives in a defined timeframe using defined budget. With Ms. Noguchi, we learned to analyse organization, stakeholders, and problems. These analyises gave us some fundamental infomation to formulate a project. We were divided into two groups and presented the results of analysis to each other.
This exercise is very usuful. Because we reflected on our own situations of persons with disabilities through the process of analysis, we could start thinking more concretely about our action plan upon our return home. Today we had presence of Mr. Ueno, chairperson of planning committee to share the learning experience.
On the second day, not only Mr. Ueno but another committee member Ms. Kashiwagi and Ms. Ueno, expert on international cooperation, manager of international relation division of JSRPD, joined us.
We continued to work on our project formulation. Based on the problem analysis in the first day, we considered which issues should be dealt in a project. Then we write down step-by-step concrete activities to be taken in order to achieve the purpose. At the end of two days sesseion, we came up with our own Project Plan format.
