Process and project management
The tools below support you in different phases of project and process management, such as:
- Problem analysis
- Action planning
- Assessment of implemented actions/projects
A problem tree is a useful way of analysing the causes and effects of a specific problem, e. g. the relationship between education and disability. The problem tree is also a good planning tool. | 34 K |
This tool can be used in a structured brainstorming session to analyse and discuss a given situation. | 28 K |
Evaluation of projects, activities, partners or stakeholders | 29 K |
Timeline-Organisation-Project.pdf To enable participants to produce a timeline that indicates significant events, achievements, setbacks and changes in the history of the organisation. | 35 K |
The sun reminds all participants involved in the planning that if this is not done well, rain and clouds will appear. The circular form of the sun symbolises the ongoing planning process, allowing participants to start at any point. | 25 K |
This tool facilitates the planning of project and programme activities. | 22 K |
Logical-Framework-Approach.pdf The logical framework approach not only provides a project overview, but also forms a basis for monitoring and evaluation. This chapter introduces the most important instrument of the approach, the so-called logframe matrix, and lists the analyses that have to be carried out before it can be used. | 29 K |
Stakeholder analysis
These tools can be used for stakeholder (self-)analysis.
To reveal important linkages and constraints according to the perceptions of different groups of participants. | 24 K |
Inventory-Ranking-Stakeholders.pdf For running projects: inventory, ranking and classification of stakeholders. Or for planned projects: criteria for choosing a partner. | 22 K |
Matrix-Key-Persons_Stakeholders.pdf This tool reveals important linkages and constraints according to the perceptions of different groups and participants, either within an organisation and/or within a certain institutional context, for example a village structure or an institutional environment. | 29 K |
Diagrams-of-Mutual-Influence_.pdf This tool facilitates discussions about the mutual influence exerted: between two persons (stakeholders, organisations, etc.) at a specific time (option 1), or of a person (stakeholder, organisation, etc.) on a specific project/activity and vice versa (option 2). | 29 K |
Ideal-Approach-to-Cooperation_.pdf Analysis of a specific example of cooperation between two organisations on the basis of the diagram below, which summarises an ideal collaboration. | 24 K |
This tool facilitates the discussion about the distribution of roles and about the question of the ownership of a project or an activity by any given stakeholder. | 19.1 K |
This tool helps to identify stakeholders who might be supportive, neutral or actively oppose an activity or project, and to reveal important linkages and constraints according to the perceptions of different groups and participants, either within an organisation and/or within a certain institutional context. | 24 K |
