1. Practical Assessment

Task 1

1. Identify a project to complete in your organisation. Present a professionally written project proposal, including:

• An executive summary;
• A background to the proposed project (how it is aligned with the organisations vision and mission);
• The key project goals and objectives (apply SMART criteria and explain the strategic link between plans, programmes and project);
• Financial projections or cost projections (best, middle and worst-case scenarios of initial estimates of time and resources); and
• General recommendations (tactics) based on your research and financial projections.

1. Create a work breakdown structure (WBS) for your project using the tools or programmes required by your organisation.

1. Conduct a risk analysis on your chosen project, clearly showing the impact and likelihood of specific risks. Be sure to determine the risk acceptance criteria, risk acceptability and what action will be proposed to reduce the risk.

1. Develop the project communication management strategy you could use to communication your project implementation plan to your unit, department or organisation.

Task 2

1. Identify a programme or a project that your team, department or organisation has to monitor and evaluate.
2. Identify the reason or objective for wanting to evaluate this programme or project.
3. Identify all the relevant role players who should be involved in the monitoring and evaluation of your programme and project. Briefly explain their roles and responsibilities.
4. Discuss what capacity needs to be developed (if any) amongst the respective role players to ensure the effective monitoring and evaluation of the programme and project. Develop a plan of action to develop this capacity. (
5. Develop the following for your project or programme by applying the CREAM criteria:
   1. Outcome
   2. Indicators
   3. Baselines
   4. Targets
   5. Activities
   6. Inputs
6. Explain how you intend to collect data to measure the outcomes, indicators, baselines, targets, activities and inputs.
7. Explain the structure of the evaluation report that you will develop for your programme or project.
8. Explain how you are going to communicate the evaluation to relevant role players.
9. Explain how the evaluation reports findings, recommendations and conclusions can impact on the M&E system.
10. Draw up a monitoring and evaluation implementation plan for the project.