5.1 Programme Selection Committee
As it was observed, the frameworks used by the five organisations
reviewed all include a programme team which is in charge of the implementation
of the different programmes and projects. The programme team is also
responsible for the evaluation of programmes and projects after their
completion. However, the framework being proposed advocates the establishment
of both a Programme Selection Committee and a Programme Team. The programme
selection committee will include the organisation's country manager, the
programme officer and a senior member of the finance team. The roles of this
programme selection committee are:
- To assess the country's needs and the local demand which will
lead to the development of the country's strategy
- Define the Country's strategic Buckets based on the local
demand
- Determine which criteria will be used to assess the programmes
and projects
- To review programmes and projects proposals to ensure that they
are in line with the country's strategy and that they fit one of the strategic
buckets identified
- To decide which programmes and projects will be implemented,
which
ones will be have to be re-defined, and which ones will be
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- To provide the necessary information to the programme team
regarding the selected programmes and projects
- To document best practices that will be used for future
training of the members of the programme team
The programme team will consist of staff with project management
experience and will be responsible for:
- Preparing progress reports on the status of the programmes and
projects being implemented
- To update the programmes and projects risks logs/registers
- To create and update the programme database
- To collect and organise programme and project data
Both the members of the project selection committee and the
programme team will be involved in the evaluation of programmes and projects
after their completion. Having these two separate teams will reduced biased
decision making, improve the quality of the programmes and projects and speed
up the programme and projects selection process. The Programme Selection
Comminttee's role of assessing the needs of a country also helps in
understanding the different cultural differences which as it was suggested by
Rosenberg and Posner (19979) and Turner (1994) help facilitate the
implementation of development projects. These two teams will also ensure that
the programmes and projects implemented fulfil the organisation's strategy
through this selection framework because their members have a clear
understanding of the strategic orientation of the organisation as pointed out
in studies conducted by Englund and Graham (1999), and Ghasemzadeh and Archer
(2000) and LaBrosse(2010).
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Figure 4 Proposed Organisational Structure
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