| Who is involved |
What happens |
Decisions made |
Key Stakeholders
Board of Directors
Executive Management,
Chief Operations Officer, Programme Managers
Project Managers |
Assessment of regional and local socio-economic conditions, policies and an analysis of other initiatives |
Overall Agency Strategy Approved
Programme strategies in alignment with Strategy
Projects identified which would result in achievement of Programme outcomes (on-going)
Annual Budget approval (not part of toolkit) |
| Tools and Guidelines |
Where to find |
| Strategic Planning |
LED strategic planning Manual – see resources |
| Logical Framework Process & Matrix |
See stage 5 Monitoring & Evaluation |
| Project Identification template |
Stage 2 Tool 1 |
| Partnership Development |
Stage 2 Tool 2 |
| Illustrations |
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| Government Alignment map |
Stage 2 Template 1 |
| Strategy Map |
| Results Chain Framework |
| Stakeholders |
| Documents at end of this phase |
| 1. Overall Programme Strategy |
| 2. Strategic Map |
| 3. Results Chain of Overall Programme |
| 4. Project Identification and Concept document – work-in progress document stages 1-3 |
| Assessments to help ensure relevance and feasibility of a project idea: |
| 1. Policy and programming framework and alignment |
NDP & IDP |
| 2. Strategy analysis |
Overall Strategic Plan |
| 3. Budget availability |
Overall Programme Budget |
| 4. Quality assessment criteria |
Stage 3 – See Quality Standards |
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Output:
Programmes are strategically aligned to higher priorities
Landscape for project identification has been created |
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Next stage:
Project Conceptualisation |
