140394 UE P II - PR1 - PFA Project Management and Social Entrepreneurship for Poverty Reduction (2012W)

Nowadays, Social Entrepreneurship has emerged as an innovative and crucial instrument for the effective provision of pro-poor Public Goods in the process of addressing larger-scaled development issues. Results-Based Management (RBM) and Managing for Development Results (MfDR) are among other public policy initiatives whose articulation is efficiently achieved by sound project management skills. College graduates generally find themselves ill-prepared for field-related tasks in International Development organizations (e.g. NGOs, Foundations, governmental agencies). In addition, they are inadequately equipped to launch a social entrepreneurial venture. This course is creatively designed as a clinical professional course seeking to familiarize the participants with the practices and techniques of social entrepreneurial ventures within the framework of project management for development results. As such, the course is boiled down into three complementary components: (i) Poverty Analysis; (ii) Social
Entrepreneurship and (iv) Project Management. This course is strongly recommended for the students planning an International Development career (i.e. NGOs, bilateral cooperation programs, multilateral agencies, foundations, CSR) or contemplating a development project of their own. The participants are expected (but not required) to prepare project ideas (must not be detailed yet) before joining the course.