June 28, 2010 : Workshop: How to Write Project Plan Ⅰ
Training Report - Decent work course
Today is the first day of three day session to learn how to write Project Plan.
The lecturer who works as a consultant for NGOs in Tokyo conducts various trainings and organizes events. She also works to make linkage Japanese NGOs to other groups.
In the morning, the lecturer explained the outline of Project Plan by showing some examples. Along with it, the participants gained knowledge of who could be stakeholders and what would be resources in their communities in order to implement their projects effectively and smoothly. The participants also had role playing to know the hints when they ask questions to persons with disabilities as stakeholders of the projects since most of them were not disabled.
In the afternoon, the participants were explained about 12 items to write their project plans, such as 1. Name, organization and country, 2. Title of your project, 3. Background information, 4. Overall Goals, 5. Concrete Objectives, 6. Stakeholders & Beneficiaries, 7. Impacts of project on Stakeholders, 8. Project implementation plan, 9. Monitoring and evaluation, 10. Possible obstacles to project plan implementation, 11. Budget & a way of raising funds, 12. Impact of this training.
The lecturer told the participants repeatedly that plans have to be feasible and concrete. In addition, the plan should be related to Decent Work. She suggested them taking notes of any ideas that they gain through this training course. Those memos must be helpful when they draw their plan.
It is sure that they have understood the purpose of writing Project Plan and have learned basic skills to write it even though some participants do not have any experiences to write a plan before.
