ONLINE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
A unified web platform for project managers in the field
Benoit THIERRY
Updated Jan 2015
• To ease IFAD funded project management and reporting
• Webtools for project managers/teams and accessible by IFAD
CPMs and various divisions involved,
• Repository for project documents, databases, and knowledge
(public and non public), long term institutional memory,
• Link to IFAD/Governments rules, guidelines, database
(fiduciary, implementation support, planning and monitoring, …)
A proposal based on
existing field experiences:
IFADASIA/IFADAFRICA/CAPFIDA/SIMES/…

IFAD PROJECT CYCLE
(to be used,
Together with
Logframe)

PROJECT
CYCLE
Includes
Planning/M/E,
KM and
Communication
Conception
Implementation
Evaluation
Upscaling

There is a Value
Chain linking
M/E, KM
and Com
Monitor
activities
Evaluate
results-impacts
Harvest – Analyse - Synthesize
Share – Disseminate
Upscaling
Policy Dialogue / New design
Sharing-Learning
Generating
new
Knowledge

Finance
(WAs, procmt plan, awpb)
Monitoring and Evaluation
(logframe, RIMS, M&E reports
Electronic library
(reports, pictures, videos)
Knowledge Mgmt
(case studies,
analytical notes)
Communi-
cation
Policy dialogue / design
www.ifadasia.org
Country portal
Each
project
site
Project management
Country Programme mgt
All projects fits as well.

M&E
Finance
KM
COM
Country Programme
Flexcube
RIMS/SKD
IRC / PTA / Policy
EC /Rural Poverty Portal
IFAD headquarter
Interaction between
Country Prg., IFAD Rome & Government
Finance
Agriculture
Ministries/ Departments
Govt Action Plan
Government

Project Knowledge Pyramid
•Press Articles
•Radio events
•VideosCommunication
•Case Studies
•Annual reports
•Electronic Library
Knowledge Management
•Logframe /RIMS
•Evaluations/Qualitative data
•Database – Geographic Info
Monitoring & Evaluation
Project basic docs •Appraisal
•AWPB/ Annual Reports
•Financial reports
•Withdraw applications
Financial (protected area)

Context – following slides
• 1. Country
programme
management an
integration with IFAD
and country.
• 2. Integration of
project into country
programme, into
region, into ifad
global.
• 3. links between
pyramid and basic
documents
• 4. links between
pyramid and IFAD
tools/ databases.

Online project management
synthesis
Electronic
Library
Knowledge
Management &
Communication (case
studies, images, maps)
Monitoring & Evaluation (logframe,
RIMS, planning, reporting)
Fiduciary Management (agreement, manuals,
procurement, contracts, WAs)

Online Project mgmt :
navigation options
Planning
Reporting
Monitoring
Reports
Images
Posters
references
M&E
Fiduciary
KM
COM
E.library

Basic/Design
Procurement
Plans
Results &
Impact
analysis
Lograme/
RIMS/
SIMES
Database/
Geograph
ic info
Meetin
g
Minute
s
TOR
people
/
missio
ns
Logfram
e /RIMS/
SIMES
Socio-
Econom
ic
Studies
Fiduciary
Management
Planning / M&E +
Reporting +
Implementation
Support
Knowledge
Management
+ Communication
Impl/Operation Closure
.
Actual Project
and Programme
Implementation
Online project
Management
Time Line
MgmtandKnowledgeLine
IFAD Asia - Draft proposal
B.Thierry - IFAD -update
06/2014
Annual
Workplan
Electron
ic
Library
Stories
from the
field
Annual
Report
TV/
videoPoster
Press
Article
Radio
COSOP
Project
Design
Report
Inceptio
n Memo
Baseline
Survey
Project
Status
Reports
/CPIS
Reviews
(Annual,
MTR,…) &
Evaluations/
Completion
report
Financing
Agreemen
t
Letter to
Borrowe
r
Implement
ation
Manual
AWPB
Financial
Statements
Reports
– IS/
Sup/
Follow-
up/BTOs
Completio
n report
Audits
reports
Reconciliatio
n
Final
Audit
Registry
of
Contract
s
Case
Studies
Booklet
s
/Leaflet

M&E
Finance
KM
CO
M
Technical
Networks
What we are
looking for in
IFADASIA and
IFAD connect
M&E
Finance
KM
CO
M
Country
Programme
M&E
Finance
KM
CO
M
Country
Programme
IFADASIA KM
(newsletter, www.ifad.asia.org)
IFAD KM
(www.ifad.org , portal)
GLOBAL
COM

- IFAD ASIA
- Madagascar : www.capfida.mg
- Nepal :SIMES system
- Farmers Org MTCP2 : blog and IfadAsia.