A good planning methodology makes everything easier

Remember that, even for programs for which it is not required, it is important to refer implicitly to the logical framework that supports the project. For this reason, it is essential to use a clear and tested methodology that facilitates its writing. Among the various methodology, the G.O.P.P. (Goal Oriented Project Management) can be very adaptable to different types of projects. QAu methodology plans to plan a project through the following phases:

• A)      Context analysis

Before arriving at the actual design, one must necessarily go through an analysis as thorough as possible of the specific problems that are related to the main one that the project relates to

• B)      Analysis of the key actors

In order to maximize the effectiveness of what you are going to do, you need to be able to involve in the most organic way possible all the stakeholders, the stakeholders, the people, organizations, institutions that have a real interest in improving or not improvement of the initial conditions of the project recipients. These are the characteristics that define a stakeholder:

•          Knowledge of the reality to be modified;
•          Interest in the change taking place; interest that we could also define: benefit or advantage, in the event that the conditions of the beneficiaries improve;
•          Willingness and willingness to contribute to change.

Consequently, among the stakeholders considered in the planning phase, they cannot missing the final beneficiaries or who can faithfully represent them, the intermediate beneficiaries, the entities promoters of the initiative, local bodies in whose mission the development of the territory, etc.

• C)      Problem analysis

The first real step of the design consists in an identification of the problems that exist in a certain situation or, better to say, in relation to the chosen entity.

It is important that problems are real, not based on ideas, theories or prefiguring solutions, albeit desirable. The more the identification of the problems is based on concrete and tangible aspects of reality, the more the design work will be of quality. The characteristics that the problems identified in this phase must have are as follows:

•          Real, ie based on concrete facts and not on ideas or opinions;
•          Objective, based on certain facts and, if possible, demonstrable;
•          Expressed in negative terms, which therefore represent current negative conditions;
•          Clear, therefore understandable by everyone, - specific, ie referring to specific aspects or elements (people, places, times, quantities, etc.);
• D)      Goal analysis

In particular, it is It is necessary to verify that the formulation of the objectives respect the following features:

•          Does not imply or express actions or strategies of any nature. The objective it is never the solution to a problem, but a different state of things in which the problem does not exist anymore;
•          It is possible and reasonable to reach it in a specific amount of time;
•          It is desirable from the point of view of the actors involved;
•          Has a clearly expressed subject;
•          Avoid mentioning the negativities expressed by the problems even if related to one of them.