Project Concept Notes

A careful and thorough preparation is a key success factor for successful development cooperation projects. The preparation of a project concept notes includes the following steps:

• A problem analysis. Determine the specific, development challenges to be addressed.

• A stakeholder mapping. Identification of all actors that are concerned by or need to be involved to address the challenge your project will work on.

• Defining objectives. What are the expected achievements of your project (outcomes), who will benefit?

• Crafting a delivery strategy. How will the expected outcomes be achieved, which outputs and activities are needed to generate the expected outcomes?

• What are the funding needs (tentative budget)?

• What are the risks (analysis and proposed mitigation measures)?

• Developing a sustainability strategy. How will the project’s benefits be maintained?

• The project concept note is based upon a clear theory of change and a result monitoring framework. EvalCo uses the logical framework approach as a basis for results-based project management.