Project Management Manual 1. Introduction 1.1. Welcome to the Project Management Manual This Manual is a collaborative tool, the contents of which are composed of inputs from GEF IW Project Managers and other stakeholders. IW:LEARN is soliciting and encouraging the submission of Terms of References (TORs), Draft Agendas for meetings and other relevant project documents from GEF IW projects. Feedback from the Technical Advisory Group strongly supported the formation of a platform that would present the manual in a user friendly format that was easily accessible and navigable, and allowed for user feedback throughout the tool. This platform is meant to accommodate those concerns. At the top of each page you will find a tool for ranking the page, while at the bottom you will find a space to submit comments. The aim is that with time, the most useful documents and pages will become clear by their ranking, that user comments will lead to improvements in the content, and document submissions of the GEF IW Portfolio will provide a wealth of information for other GEF IW projects. The Project Management Manual is laid out in five main sections 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Overview GEF IW Project Philosophy GEF IW Project Check-list GEF IW Project Management Topics Case Studies and Experiences
1.2. Overview Purpose of the Project Management Manual Over the last decade there have been a series of requests from IW Conference participants and recommendations from IW project Terminal Evaluations for a practical guide to assist project stakeholders “ primarily project managers and their staff “ on the specific project management requirements of GEF IW projects. This WikiGuide is intended to be a primer for new project staff and those key stakeholders (Implementing and Executing Agency Staff, Government officials and civil society) to understand the processes and approaches used in GEF IW projects. This said, there is no ˜standard ™ approach to GEF IW projects and this guide is intended to be just that “ a guide: providing references and links to best practices and experiences from a wealth of completed and on-going projects. Project staff come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences This guide is intended to give a common understanding of the expectations of GEF IW projects and to emphasise that Project Managers and PCU staff should not be reticent in asking advice from more seasoned peers. The guide has been developed with input from many sources: experienced project managers, common requests from existing GEF IW project staff, a dedicated workshop at the 6thGEF International WatersConferences (Dubrovnik, 2011), a meeting of IW project managers ™ in Copenhagen (July 2012), requests and recommendations from GEF Agencies and
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