Tips for PDM Workshop Trainers

Calendar Options for the PDM Workshop

The selection and sequencing of the sessions in the manual should be based on participants' expressed needs

and overall time allotments. The following four calendars show options for workshops of different lengths and

focus.

4 Day Calendar (full workshop)

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

  Success Stories in the

  Warm Up Activity

  Warm Up Activity

  Warm Up Activity

Community: Introduction

to the PDM Workshop

  Desires, Needs, or

  Action Plan: Assigning

  Project Presentations (in

Problems? Understanding

Roles and Responsibilities

Volunteer Counterpart

  Assets and Deficits:

the Difference

Teams)

Identifying Our

  Action Plan: Making the

Resources and

  Project Design: Part 1 

Timeline

  Funding Sources: Looking

Expectations

Vision, Assets, and

Inside and Outside the

Strategies

  Monitoring and Evaluation

Community

Planning

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

  Steps in Project Planning

  Project Design: Part 2 

  Resource Identification and

  Workshop Application:

Goals and Objectives, Signs

Budgeting

Taking It Home to the

  Participatory Analysis

of Success, Feasibility Test

Community

and Priority Setting with

  Proposal Writing and

the Community

  Action Plan: Identifying

Preparation for Project

  Workshop Evaluation and

and Sequencing Tasks

Presentations

Celebration

  Summary of Day

  Summary of Day

  Summary of Day

3 Day Calendar (community analysis focus)

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

  Success Stories in the Community:

  Warm Up Activity

  Warm Up Activity

Introduction to the PDM Workshop

  Desires, Needs, or Problems?

  Action Plan: Assigning Roles and

  Assets and Deficits: Identifying Our

Understanding the Difference

Responsibilities

Resources and Expectations

  Project Design: Part 1 Vision, Assets,

  Action Plan: Making the Timeline

and Strategies

  Monitoring and Evaluation Planning

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

  Steps in Project Planning

  Project Design: Part 2 Goals and

  Resource Identification and Budgeting

Objectives, Signs of Success, Feasibility

  Participatory Analysis and Priority 

  Workshop Application: Taking It

Test

Setting with the Community

Home to the Community

  Action Plan: Identifying and

  Summary of Day

  Workshop Evaluation and Celebration

Sequencing Tasks

  Summary of Day

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