Course Content Breakdown

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

1.1   The concept of Projects and project managements

1.2   Unique features of projects

1.3   Project vs programs 

1.4   The Project Cycle

1.5   The concept  project format

1.6   Aspects Project appraisals -Technical, Social, Commercial financial and Economic aspects

1.7   The concept of project analysis

1.8   Why agricultural projects prove fails

CHAPTER TWO: IDENTIFYING PROJECT COSTS AND BENEFITS

4.1. Objectives, cost and benefits

4.2. Costs & benefits: in financial and economic analysis

4.3. Categories of Costs and Benefits

4.3.1. Direct transfer payments

4.3.2. Costs of inputs

4.3.3. Contingency allowance

4.3.4. Sunk costs

4.4. Tangible benefits of projects

4.5. Externalities

4.5.1. Secondary costs and benefits

4.5.2. Intangible costs and benefits

4.6. With and without project comparison

CHAPTER THEE: Financial aspects of project analysis

3.1 Pricing of project costs and benefits

3.2 Farm investment analysis

3.3 Financial analysis of processing industries

3.4 Analyzing project on government receipts

CHAPTER FOUR: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ANALYSIS

4.1. Purpose of Economic Analysis

4.2. Economic and Social Cost-Benefit Analysis

4.2.1. Opportunity Cost and Economic Valuation Numéraire

4.2.2. Approaches to Measuring Economic Costs and Benefits of a Project

a)      UNIDO Approach

b)     Little-Mirlees (L-M) Approach

4.3. Determining Economic Value

1.      Direct transfer payments

2.      Valuing non-traded goods

3.      Valuing Output Using Market Prices

4.      Valuing inputs using market prices

5.      Valuing traded goods

6.      Valuing potentially traded goods

7.      Valuing Externalities

CHAPTER FIVE . MEASURES OF PROJECT WORTH

5.1. Undiscounted measures of project worth

5.1.1. Ranking by inspection

5.1.2. Payback Period

5.1.3. Rate of return on investment

5.2. Discounted measure of project worth

5.2.1. Net present values

5.2.2. Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

           5.2.3. Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR)

         5.2.4. Net Benefit-Investment Ratio (N/K)

5.2.5. Capital Rationing

5.3. Comparisons Among Discounted Measure

CHAPTER SIX: MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF PROJECTS

6.2 Distinction and complementarities between M & E

6.3 Purpose of Monitoring and evaluation

6.4 Types of monitoring and evaluation