GEST3025-1 : Projects management in tropical regions

Study Programmes 2015-2016

GEST3025-1

Projects management in tropical regions

Duration :

9h Pr, 12h Th

Number of credits :

Specialised master in environmental management in developing countries		2

Lecturer :

Baudouin Michel

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

1. Project and Definition
2. Project cycle
2.1. Identification : definition - time - costs - examples
2.2. Prefeasibility : definition - time - costs - examples
2.3. Feasibility : definition - time - costs - examples
2.4. Evaluation : ante, ex-post, mid-term
2.5. Financing : definition - time - costs - examples
2.6. The logical framework
2.7. Sector approach and Budgetary aid
3. Financial Analysis
3.1. Prefinancing cash-flow
3.2. Depreciation
3.3. Pay back period
3.4. Discounting : principle - discount rate choice - net present value
3.5. Financial internal rate of return : principle - calculation and examples - interpretation - nominal interest rate - sensitivity analysis and example
3.6. Financing plan : cash flow (CF - Source and application table - examples - exercices)
4. Economic Analysis
4.1. Tradable and non-tradable goods
4.2. Traded and non-traded goods
4.3. Weighting
4.4. Economic internal rate of return - Policy Analysis Matrix
4.5. Effects method
4.6. Impacts indicators

Learning outcomes of the course :

Teaching design and assessment techniques of investment - sectoral or/and regional - public, private, associative - projects in a practical way

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Lectures : 12h
Practical Works : 9h

Recommended or required readings :

1) BRIDIER M. and MICHAILOF S. (1995). Guide pratique d'analyse de projets : Evaluation et choix des projets d'investissement, Ed. Economica, Paris.
2) World Bank - DUVIGEAU J.C. and PARSAD RANGA N. (1985). Directives pour le calcul des taux de rentabilité financière et économique des projets de SFD.
3) European Commission - AIDCO-DG DEV-2004-Aid Delivery Methods-Project cycle management guidelines.
4) European Commission - "Financial and economic analysis of development projects" - 1997.
5) European Commission - DG Regional Policy-2003 - Guide to cost-benefit analysis of investment projects.

Assessment methods and criteria :

Oral examination (100%)

Work placement(s) :

Organizational remarks :

Contacts :

MICHEL Baudouin

Bât. GE Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Passage des Déportés 2
5030 Gembloux

+32 2 7760792