Project Services
Project Services
Project Services
NCG partners, staff, and external consultants have extensive knowledge of multi-faceted development issues and programme processes, encompassing rural and urban contexts, conflict and post-conflict areas, and fragile states. This, combined with the ability to analyse complex problems, enables us to work in a variety of socio-cultural contexts, and establish effective working relationships with counterparts and colleagues.
We have the in-house capacity to react quickly and with the flexibility to the shifting needs of our clients, offering the full project cycle management services that include, but are not limited to:
Identification
Project conceptualization involves assessing the project's relevance to NCG’s strategic goals. Does it align with sustainable development and address the local context? How strong is the expertise of local partners? The initial draft should outline key activities, objectives, outcomes, and provide resource and budget estimates, ensuring alignment with NCG’s commitment to impactful, context-driven solutions.
Identification
Project conceptualization involves assessing the project's relevance to NCG’s strategic goals. Does it align with sustainable development and address the local context? How strong is the expertise of local partners? The initial draft should outline key activities, objectives, outcomes, and provide resource and budget estimates, ensuring alignment with NCG’s commitment to impactful, context-driven solutions.
Identification
Project conceptualization involves assessing the project's relevance to NCG’s strategic goals. Does it align with sustainable development and address the local context? How strong is the expertise of local partners? The initial draft should outline key activities, objectives, outcomes, and provide resource and budget estimates, ensuring alignment with NCG’s commitment to impactful, context-driven solutions.
Formulation
The design and formulation phase focuses on aligning project objectives with donor and country policies. This includes creating detailed proposals with narrative overviews, situation and institutional analyses, risk assessments, and a theory of change. Key elements include feasibility studies, partner identification, activity outlines, logical framework, financial proposals, budgets, and any additional documents required based on the project type.
Formulation
The design and formulation phase focuses on aligning project objectives with donor and country policies. This includes creating detailed proposals with narrative overviews, situation and institutional analyses, risk assessments, and a theory of change. Key elements include feasibility studies, partner identification, activity outlines, logical framework, financial proposals, budgets, and any additional documents required based on the project type.
Formulation
The design and formulation phase focuses on aligning project objectives with donor and country policies. This includes creating detailed proposals with narrative overviews, situation and institutional analyses, risk assessments, and a theory of change. Key elements include feasibility studies, partner identification, activity outlines, logical framework, financial proposals, budgets, and any additional documents required based on the project type.
Implementation
This phase covers practical preparations such as staff recruitment, team, logistics, organization, and stakeholder engagement. It also includes establishing monitoring, financial, and risk management systems, along with preparations for external audits, evaluations, and baseline studies. A key focus is on building institutional capacity through technical training, on-the-job mentoring, workshops, courses, e-learning, and fostering partnerships.
Implementation
This phase covers practical preparations such as staff recruitment, team, logistics, organization, and stakeholder engagement. It also includes establishing monitoring, financial, and risk management systems, along with preparations for external audits, evaluations, and baseline studies. A key focus is on building institutional capacity through technical training, on-the-job mentoring, workshops, courses, e-learning, and fostering partnerships.
Implementation
This phase covers practical preparations such as staff recruitment, team, logistics, organization, and stakeholder engagement. It also includes establishing monitoring, financial, and risk management systems, along with preparations for external audits, evaluations, and baseline studies. A key focus is on building institutional capacity through technical training, on-the-job mentoring, workshops, courses, e-learning, and fostering partnerships.
Monitoring
This involves reviewing and tracking project progress to ensure effective management and accountability. Key aspects include assessing project outputs against logframe indicators, comparing activities with project plans, and monitoring expenses against the budget. Reporting and making recommendations for project adjustments are based on the findings to ensure continued alignment and effectiveness.
Monitoring
This involves reviewing and tracking project progress to ensure effective management and accountability. Key aspects include assessing project outputs against logframe indicators, comparing activities with project plans, and monitoring expenses against the budget. Reporting and making recommendations for project adjustments are based on the findings to ensure continued alignment and effectiveness.
Monitoring
This involves reviewing and tracking project progress to ensure effective management and accountability. Key aspects include assessing project outputs against logframe indicators, comparing activities with project plans, and monitoring expenses against the budget. Reporting and making recommendations for project adjustments are based on the findings to ensure continued alignment and effectiveness.
Evaluation
This stage focuses on assessing results and impact through strategic evaluations, including ex-ante, mid-term, ex-post, summative, normative, and real-time assessments. It involves measuring outcomes against objectives, evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, and generating key learnings and recommendations for future improvements.
Evaluation
This stage focuses on assessing results and impact through strategic evaluations, including ex-ante, mid-term, ex-post, summative, normative, and real-time assessments. It involves measuring outcomes against objectives, evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, and generating key learnings and recommendations for future improvements.
Evaluation
This stage focuses on assessing results and impact through strategic evaluations, including ex-ante, mid-term, ex-post, summative, normative, and real-time assessments. It involves measuring outcomes against objectives, evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, and generating key learnings and recommendations for future improvements.
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