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Kiran
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Week 1 - Question 3
October 17, 2006 @ 01:29 PM
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(Kiran Khandwala - New York, USA)
Topic 3: Making a project realistic: preparing for challenges and risks
To be successful, a project needs to be realistic or feasible. While every project faces challenges and risks, a well thought out project design will aim to control or minimize these obstacles.
What are some shared challenges you may share with fellow course participants in implementing your project? Can you control these risks or will solving them require input or resources from others? (ie local government, national government). Feel free to share lessons learned from past experience overcoming challenges.
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Re: Week 1 - Question 3
October 19, 2006 @ 11:52 AM
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Ebuenyi Ikenna D (Reality)
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A successful project is dependent on many factors. I classify the factors into internal and external factors. The internal factors consist of those things the project designer has control over. That is, it includes things, which are within his control. If the internal factors are covered, it possible to have a successful project.
However, more often than not, it is the external factors, which are outside the control of the project designer that clogs the wheel of the project. These external factors range from disappointment by the sponsor or financier to lukewarm attitude of the target population.
At times, there is little that can be done to salvage the situation but it helps to have a plan B or a fall back plan. As the saying goes, ‘it is not right to put all ones egg in a basket’. Over the years, having a fall back plan has helped cushion the falls or disappointments I would have had due to last minute drawbacks.
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ARTHUR CHEMBOGA
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Re: Week 1 - Question 3
October 20, 2006 @ 05:01 AM
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Arthur Chemboga,Lilongwe,Malawi
There can be many challenges which a project can face .But i will take an external challenge of the project.For instance ,if your target audience are youth and you have a certain intednded behaviour change for the youth,that means you are likely to have some agenda for the youth to be attracted to your project in order to achieve your objective.
Most of the time there is unwillingness of the youth to participate fully.You need to have ways to put them on board for a successiful project.
However,such a challenge can be solved by creating youth friendly activities for them to get attracted.You can organize game tournaments,dancing parties,competition prizese.etc
But a billion dollar QUESTION is how you can get a sponsor or fanancier.This depends on your committiment ,perseverence,skills ,credibility to you project when convincing sponsors to come to your rescue. Sometimes it works.
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Re: Week 1 - Question 3
October 20, 2006 @ 05:42 AM
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Hassan Nasir Mirani (Pakistan)
One of the projects that I just finished doing was on governance, where we had to train the union councilors (elected representatives of union councils which is the smallest tier of government in Pakistan under the Devolution of Powers Plan/Local Government Act). After being trained, the councilors were supposed to take-up the local issues for getting them solved through resource available in their union or other tier of government where they form the constituency. However, the councilors were very much reluctant to this all. To mobilize them we did advance mobilization activities and use influence of district council, which heads all union councils, to let union councilors do this all.
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Dr. Gwewasang C. Martin
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Re: Week 1 - Question 3
October 20, 2006 @ 11:09 AM
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Challenges to be shared with course participants in implementing my project will include:
* having an authorisation to enter hospitals and talk with HIV/AIDS patients.
* lack of laboratory equipment and diagnostic kits to carry out test for HIV/AIDS
* seed funds to support cost of project and the affected and infected HIV/AIDS cases
* identifying the right people to work with.
* Political situation in the country might not favour the project.
* The season/roads conditions in Cameroon.
I can manage some of the risk and challenges but some need external support from government, local administrators, donors and the community themselves.
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Dr. Gwewasang C. Martin
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October 20, 2006 @ 11:10 AM
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Etaka Eyong Elsie
Douala Cameroon
Challenges to be shared with course participants in implementing my project will include:
* having an authorisation to enter hospitals and talk with HIV/AIDS patients.
* lack of laboratory equipment and diagnostic kits to carry out test for HIV/AIDS
* seed funds to support cost of project and the affected and infected HIV/AIDS cases
* identifying the right people to work with.
* Political situation in the country might not favour the project.
* The season/roads conditions in Cameroon.
I can manage some of the risk and challenges but some need external support from government, local administrators, donors and the community themselves.
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Samuels Adebayo
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Re: Week 1 - Question 3
October 20, 2006 @ 11:20 AM
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From a personal experience (Art4Dev, Art-based workshops) in selected secondary schools in Abuja, Nigeria. The workshop sets out to teach practical skills in Art and Craft along side HIV/AIDS Education to pupils in order to ease the tension of heavily bureaucratized education systems and to empower participants with skills for economic emancipation. This project is realistic and feasible but as part of the challenges faced were the resistance of school principal to provide workshop materials, workshop seen as threat/ challenge of capability by in-house Art masters, and of course Art4Dev’s provision of logistics.
First, the project had to be reviewed and was made free-of-charge to participants and school without them having to provide workshop materials, the reason for this is simple, I see the project as pilot stage and was ready to give everything to make it a success thus they were personally funded (2 of such).
Secondly, the workshop was carried out with major contributions by the Art- teachers before the workshop, consultations were made with the Art-teachers and were eventually helpful – they equally learnt the interactive (facilitate way of “learning and teaching”)
Finally, we (facilitators) had to sacrifice to meet the demand of “Our Project” and its documentation put smiles to our faces.
Sam
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Adesida Ireti Emmanuel
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Re: Week 1 - Question 3
October 21, 2006 @ 07:09 PM
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Ireti Emmanuel Adesida
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One of the challenges I have was trying hard to look for sponsors to support my projects, corporate organizations do not see the great importance of supporting life-changing projects like this, they prefer sponsoring entertainment shows and concerts.
I had lots of challenges in sustaining my youth development programme on radio, due to lack of sponsors, this has made me to reduce he programme duration from 30 minutes to just 3 minutes because the station can no longer harbour programmes unsponsored, even the 3 minutes programme comes up only when they are free. I really pray to have sponsors for the radio programme soon so that the life changing project can be back on air
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Re: Week 1 - Question 3
October 23, 2006 @ 08:28 AM
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Samer N. Abu-Aresheh
Amman - Jordan
to implement a good project , you need to identify the obstacles and problems that u might face during the stages of the project.
Some of the problems can be solved by starting a discussion between the teams members and moderators and hear the different ideas that might be done to solve the related problem.
but in the other hand,some problems may need special authorization for the government or an extra fund from the project funder and that needs to get the support needed at the appropriate time
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David Habba
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Re: Week 1 - Question 3
October 25, 2006 @ 11:44 AM
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Challenges are most times inevitable, but the ability to overcome the challenges is what makes the project a full success.
In implementing a project, some challenges could arise internally and externally and as such, the solution may defer.
An experience of mine, i hope it helps expalin more. We were planning a workshop for young persons here and everything was in order until a few days to the start, a senior governmnet officail that was a logger heads with us on some issues that we considered as wrong influence to a level and we were refused entry to the venue. This is after your letters have gone out and all that. this was surely and external challenge and to tackel it, you had to do it externally. We had to get even a more senior officer to interven before we finally got the venue.
so Challenges differ and so do thie solution differ. Bu i should think that, internal problems could be easily sloved if you adher stictly to your values.
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