Topic: Project Scope

Effective Project Management

Overview of the need for project management, role of project management, phases of project management, project management elements, project team, project contract. Explains the value of project management – that it helps the project move more quickly while the work is being done – “go slow to go fast”. The program discusses the need for a project plan and the different types of project plans that can be used.

Learning Objectives:

1. Project content, logistics, deliverables
2. Self management
3. Coordination and Communication with others

Source:
California Pacific Public Health Training Center - UC Davis

Topics:
Community and Organizational Partnerships
Group Processes/Facilitation
Project Scope

Benchmarks:
CAN Implementation

Evaluation Planning and Prioritizing: Stakeholders are Your Edge

In this webcast, Dr. Cecilia Hegamin-Younger will provide a presentation on ways you can engage your stakeholders from the beginning of your program planning process through implementation, map their concerns to program outcomes in your logic model, and thereby focus your program evaluation on specific priority areas.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the importance of considering all audiences for an evaluation.
  2. Discuss appropriate scoping activities to focus and inform the evaluation plan.

Source:
Michigan Public Health Training Center

Topics:
Community and Organizational Partnerships
Program evaluation
Project Scope

Benchmarks:
Quality Improvement/Evaluation

Implementing a Program Theory-Driven Evaluation

Provides an overview of the steps required to implement a program theory-driven evaluation. Steps include stakeholder engagement, describing the program, developing a logic model, focusing the evaluation, data collection, drawing conclusions, and using evaluation results.

Source:
California Pacific Public Health Training Center - UC Davis

Topics:
Data Utilization
Program evaluation
Project Scope
Quality Improvement

Benchmarks:
Quality Improvement/Evaluation

Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session Two Program Description and Logic Model

This session discusses the importance of needs assessments in informing program evaluation and guiding the formulation of realistic evaluation goals and objectives. The session will also introduce the logic model as a way to articulate the components of a MCH program. Students will get to develop a logic model for the Child Wellness Program. NOTE: This session is part two of a six-course series.

Source:
South Central Public Health Partnership

Topics:
Community Needs Assessment
Program evaluation
Project Scope

Benchmarks:
Quality Improvement/Evaluation