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Project Management

Assume you have been recruited as a consultant for a project titled: Youth Engagement in
Agribusiness Value Chain Activities in Bambili Cameroon. According to the project funding
agreement, community participation is paramount and must been assured. Assumed that the
stated project objectives are:

Objective 1: To Train and provide assistance for Income Generating Activities for 25youths

Objective 2: To create and make functional 4 cooperatives.

Objective 3: To effectively manage the project to ensure efficiency and economy

Required:

a) Suggest and explain (briefly) activities to achieve results associated with each objective
(3 activities per objective)
b) Develop an expected results and corresponding indicators (logical framework matrix
taking into account project objective and activities)
c) Explain (briefly) what plan to ensure community participation you will adopt
d) Explain (briefly) the sustainability, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
plan you will adopt
e) Suggest a risk management plan for this project
 a. Suggest and explain (briefly) activities to achieve results associated with each
objective (3 activities per objective)

Objectives Activity

- Incubation of young farmers (training on agro pastoral value chain

activities)
To Train and provide
- Supply trainees with start-up kits (Financial support)
assistance for Income
- Follow-up of installation and management of farms (extension service)
Generating Activities for 25
youths

To create and make functional
4 cooperatives.
- Share the beneficiaries into 4 groups based on agro-pastoral
speculations (e.g. poultry, piggery, market gardening, non-conventional
animals)
- Train participants on group dynamics and cooperative management
- Link cooperatives to local councils and government departments to
enhance funding and sustainability

To effectively manage the
project to ensure efficiency
and economy
- Carry out business counselling/coaching regularly ensuring youths have
saving and sales plans
- Link young entrepreneurs to product and raw material markets
- Follow-up disbursements of start-up grants at microfinance
- Follow-up reimbursement of loans granted to the youths at
microfinance institutions
 b. Develop an expected results and corresponding indicators (logical framework
matrix taking into account project objective and activities)

Project Indicators Means of Verification Risk/

Summary Assumptions

Impact Accelerated Reduce Project completion report Political

and inclusive income and local council annual instability and
economic poverty by reports climate change
growth 40% per
household

Outcome Increased Increase Project completion report Poor adoption of

Agricultural number of recommended
production young technologies due
farmers by to
25 socioeconomic
constraints
Increase
output of
farmers to
80%

Output 1. Job 1. 25 direct Project completion report,

creation jobs and 100 MINADER/MINEPIA/MIN
opportunities indirect jobs JEC reports and local
for the youths council annual reports
2. increase in
are
income of
encouraged
farmers by
2. The 80%
incomes of
3. Enhanced
beneficiaries
market
increase
information
3. system with
 Information functional
on webesite,
agricultural facebook
markets is account and
enhanced and whatsapp
available to group
the project’s
participant

Activities 1. Train and 1. Number Cooperative registration

provide youths certificate
assistance trained (25)
for 25 certificates of
2. Number of
Income incorporated businesses
cooperative
Generatin
created (4)
g
and are
Activities
functional
2. Create
3. All Project
and make
deliverable
functional
4 s achieved
cooperati
ves.
3. Effectivel
y manage
the
project to
ensure
efficiency
and
economy

Inputs/ Financial 30,000,000fc The receipts of payment,

Resources (Project fa transfer orders, profoma
Budget) invoices
 Expert Time
(Project staff)

c. Explain (briefly) what plan to ensure community participation you will adopt

A participatory community mobilisation approach will involve a meeting with the population of
the project area. It focus on a study of all aspects of the quarter (environment, social,
economic) that will result in a data base especially on priority problems, needs of the
community in relation to business potentials and its constraints for the youth entrepreneurship
activities. The results of these findings will be geared towards a better planning and
implementation of business solutions to change the problems identified in the course of the
work.

The objectives of the Participatory Community Diagnosis will be to:

- Enable the local population and youths to have a good mastery of their Business
environment, constraints and potentials.
- Identify the problems and constraints per common Business sector
- Identify the needs that will be handled in partnership with other stakeholders/actors to
support youth entrepreneurship.
- Identify and analyse issues of agribusiness and climate change that affect the
community
- Identify and analyse issues that concern young people in getting land for production
To ensure effectiveness in the realisation of the PCD, there will be a need for a common
participatory methodology to be used in involving all the stakeholders involved in the activities.
The different stages involved included:
- Selection and orientation of community facilitators to support in collecting socio-
economic data and mobilising the youths to actively participate in the project
- Use of different tools for data collection and triangulation and cross checking to see
agribusiness speculations that can be profitable to youths in the community
- Emphasize the concerns of youth entrepreneurship in reducing unemployment
- Carryout sensitization campaigns consisting a caravan with popular musicians and DJ
For all this to succeed, all the different stakeholders involved in the project at different stages
will work together. The youths, the community members, the Mayor, Councillors, ministry of
youth affairs, Steering Committee, the Community Development Association, quarter heads,
and all the quarter institutions involved in youth development.

d. Explain (briefly) the sustainability, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and

learning plan you will adopt

The internal monitoring of project activities and indicators set out in the project’s logical
framework will be carried out by a monitoring/evaluation expert from the executing organ. All
the institutions involved in project execution will prepare and transmit quarterly and annual
progress reports to the executing agency. The executing agency will draft the summary report
and forward it to the funder. All reports must comply with the funder’s formats and at the end
of project execution, the executing agency, with the assistance of the consultant, will draft and
transmit a completion report to the funder. Reports will be prepared on a quarterly and annual
basis in accordance with the applicable guidelines. Additional basic data will be collected as
necessary, in accordance with the project performance indicators defined.

e. Suggest a risk management plan for this project

RISK MITIGATION Level of risk

1. Difficulty accessing land Advocacy to be done with the owners, Low

 especially by young landlords and local authorities. land negotiation

people for youth agro-pastoral activities

2. Low team capacity in Support and involvement of experts in Medium

implementation of staff recruitment process of the project which

project must be transparent fair and based on skill

3. Low enthusiasm and Information and awareness, to be carried out High

insufficient mobilization by

of young people to carry youth organizations

out agro pastoral

activities

4. Extreme events Consider options for adapting to climate Low

(drought, floods, change (control of water and promotion of

epizootics, fires, etc.) cycle varieties shorts) in the production cycle

can affect the abilities of

agro pastoral

production and hence

the viability of

companies

5. High and volatile prices Promotion of agro-pastoral SMEs on high value Low

on input markets added products

6. Inability of Rural Adopt a performance contracts with RFIs with High

financial institution to the ultimate goal of supporting young people

provide adequate
financial services to

youths