PROGRAM

DEVELOPMENT AND
ADMINISTRATION
PRESENTED BY:
DR. SYLVIA A. DELOSA
• Program Development and Administration (PDA) (Core
603) will provide students with a systematic analysis,
planning and evaluation of projects and programs.
• By the end of the course, students will be familiar with
aid and development project work, language and
terminology used, different project structures,
implementation practices, and strategies to address
potential conflicts and obstacles.
• More importantly, students will have developed skills
-strategic design, needs assessment, implementation,
proposal and report writing, budgeting, monitoring and
evaluation, advocacy, and others - that practitioners
need to be effective in a range of professional contexts.
• In addition, one cannot speak about international work
without addressing cultural sensitivity, ethics, and socio-
cultural, political and economic dilemmas.
Learning Objectives: By course end students will be able to:
A. Acquaint the students on the different theories /terminologies related to program development
and administration.
1.Problems and constraints in development administration
2.Economic/M&E theories
- Rostow’s model,
-Harrod-Domar Model,
-Solow’s model
-Lewis Model
-Neocolonial Dependence model
- Classical Theory
-Laisses Faire Theory
-Limits of growth theory
-Marx economic theory
- PDCAShewhart /Deming cycle
-WBS
-System Theory
-Theory of change
B. Enrich student’s critical analysis on problems
affecting both domestic and international
- economic and society
C. Develop the following:
1) Conduct a basic needs assessment for a proposed
project
2) Develop a project proposal
3) Develop a logical framework
4) Develop measurable indicators
5) Have ability to insert Monitoring and Evaluation
into a project
6) Develop a grant proposal
7) Develop a project budget
• The Course, and Introductory Concepts -
Understanding course structure, grading
requirements and reading materials. Discussion
of PDA project selection process and the
projects themselves. Lecture on program work,
and the different types of organizations and
sectors involved. Introduction to the "Project
and Program Cycle."
• Project and Program Cycle - Many organizations
approach problems through a "cycle," from
which an organization or individual can frame a
comprehensive approach to solving a problem
through a broad program or targeted project.
• Needs Assessments - The first steps in initiating a
project are to fully understand the problem and
actors involved. The needs assessment process
involves using tools to reach that understanding,
including stakeholder analysis, qualitative and
quantitative methods, interviews and other tools.

• Project Design for Results - Beginning an

implementation plan for the project by designing
• project work with a long-term goal and shorter-term
objectives in mind. Introduction to logical
• framework.
• The Logical Framework and Monitoring and
Evaluation - Further develop a logical
• framework as the basis for enabling monitoring and
evaluation into your project plan. Work will
• continue on a basic framework, with goals,
objectives, implementation strategies, and
indicators
• for monitoring success, failures, effectiveness and
progress of the project.
• Activity-Based Budgeting- Introduce activity-based
budgeting for a project. Understanding
• categories and terms, including personnel, benefits,
consultants, project expenses, travel and
• direct versus indirect costs.
• Writing and Editing - This lecture focuses on
writing reports, memos and correspondence
that
• are succinct, active, informative and
readable; learning to edit your own writing;
to be conscious
• of adherence to style and avoiding mistakes.
• Grant Proposal Writing - An overview of
formatting and writing a basic grant proposal
for
• funding of a project
• Simulation
• Advocacy - Introducing different advocacy strategies to promote project / program
activities.
• Evaluation, and Program Enhancement - Evaluating your project, and analyzing the
• evaluation and making program corrections. When should your program scale up,
and when
• should it scale down and close?
• Teams also begin preparing a presentation on the team's project.

• Final Group Presentations - Final submission of team project, and final presentation
to class.

• Final Examination

• Students are expected to submit reaction/reflection/assignments papers on time.

The Program Development and Administration
Division is comprised of three offices: The
Program Development and Scheduling Office
is responsible for developing transportation
programs and establishing project schedules.
Development administration” is the term used
to denote the complex of agencies,
management systems, and processes a
government establishes to achieve its
development goals. ... The purposes of
development administration are to stimulate
and facilitate defined programs of social and
economic progress.
• Program Development. The process of
formulating, improving, and expanding
educational, managerial, or service-oriented
work plans (excluding computer program
development).
• The term development administration was
first coined by U.L. Goswmi an Indian
scholar. He used this term in his article
entitled The structure of development
administration in India, published in 1955.
However, it is George Gant, an American
scholar, who is regarded as the father of
development administration.11 Aug 2016
• What are the elements of Development
Administration?
• The main elements of the development
administration model were:

• Establishment of planning institutions and

agencies.
• Improvement of the central administrative
systems.
• Budgeting and financial control and.
• Personal management and organization
and methods.
• What is the main objective of development
administration?
• The main goal of development administration is to
create a better social, political, and economic
environment. That is, it is related to socio-economic
change and nation-building. It focuses on the
outcomes of the administrative work related to the
nation's development.27 Jun 2020
• What are the concerns of Development
Administration?
• Thus, development administration is concerned
with the achievement of progressive political,
economic, social and cultural goals. The element of
'progressiveness' of goals is an accepted feature of
development administration.
• Importance of Development Administration

• It is administering, organizing public agencies such

as to stimulate, facilitate defined programs of social,
economic progress with a purpos
• e to make change attractive and possible.
• SCOPE OF DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION

• The scope of development administration is

expanding day by day. Development administration
aims at bringing about political, social, economic
and cultural changes through proper planning and
programming, development programmes and
people's participation.
• Topics Development Administration
Traditional Public Administration
• ObjectiveThe total change of the system To
uphold the status quo
• Administration managers ensure an
organization's activities run smoothly and
efficiently. The primary goals of an
administration manager are to direct, control
and supervise the support services of the
organization to facilitate its success.
• Thank you.