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Assignment Six Discussion
Magee Example Project Assignment Six
OL 241 Assignment Six Student Matrix Template to Fill In
Assignment Six. How will you organize your ideas for presentation to a donor?
The Logical Framework (logframe) is a powerful tool that aids in project planning, budgeting, project management, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E). In working with donors and stakeholders, your logframe will allow you to communicate to others exactly what you are trying to accomplish, and convey to them if you are making progress toward your goals.
In Assignment One, we used a participatory needs assessment to define the challenges, and A2 and A3 to define the problem statement and project outline. Iin Assignments 3 and 4 researched activities that would provide solutions. Your project can be laid out in a simplified logframe matrix that allows you to organize and correlate:
This simplified matrix is the first step in building a more advanced logframe, detailed budget and project schedule—which we will be doing in the next course: OL 242, Fund Your Climate Ready Action Plan.
Here is how to do it:
Cut and paste the different components of your project outline from Assignment Three into the matrix just like I did with my project. Please do not change your project from Assignment Three; it needs to remain the same project. Copy and Paste—do not rewrite it, don’t modify it, don’t change anything.
Please leave the empty cells, columns and rows empty and alone; we will use them in the next assignment.
These Sub Goals should be sub-components of your main goal, and when added together will fulfill the main goal. So my Sub-Goals 1 and 2, equal the solutions 1 and 2, noted in the main goal statement.
Make sure that the problem statement, goal and sub-goals remain absolutely parallel to each other.
So for example, one of my problems is “1500 Pala Tribal community members and their businesses in Pala, California, are suffering from: 1) diminishing agricultural and city water due to A) climate change related recurring droughts and B) heavy, rapidly flowing runoff from surrounding mountains not charging aquifer.”
This is positively reflected in the goal statement: “1500 Pala Tribal community members and their businesses in Pala, California, will be able to enjoy 1) replenished water supplies through a A) & B) Groundwater Recharge Program.”
Consequently, for Sub-Goal 2, I have said: “A reduction in heavy stormwater runoff through a C) Check Dam Installation Program to Reduce Runoff.” This is absolutely parallel to the clause in my main project goal.
You may need to add more rows to the table if you have additional Sub-Goals and outputs.
This week you will meet with an important person for sharing your project. I hope that you decided to meet with a donor. You can explain that this is an initial project concept on which you are hoping to receive feedback before you continue with its development.
In the meeting they will tell you one of two things:
Ask them for suggestions on what you could do to improve the project based upon their experience, and how you can modify the project to best fit their programming guidelines.
Find out if they have any submission deadlines and what levels of funding do they provide ($5,000.00, $50,000.00, $500,000.00?).
Ask them that if you develop the project further and incorporate their suggestions can you return in 6 weeks to show them the result?
Or…..
Ask them if they can refer you to anyone at another funding agency that might be a better fit for your project.
But they might have an interest in an area that fits another one of your organizational goals. Maybe you presented a health project to them, and you discover they are more focused on agriculture. Maybe your organization also does agricultural projects. Think quickly and say that you have a similar scale project in agriculture—can you return in a week to show it to them?
In either case, you have learned valuable information, and you have learned how to begin partnering with donors.
The homework to turn in will be:
Go to Magee’s example project Assignment Six to see what this could look like. Please consider filling out the Course evaluation in Download Course Documents.
See you next month in OL 242, Fund Your Climate Ready Action Plan.
Tim Magee
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