Pre-course+Assignment+Building+an+Impact+Assessment+Plan

For the first assignment, you are asked to identify a development project or programme that you will use as the basis for the remaining assignments. This will be the case study that you use for later assignments. In selecting a programme to use as your case study, you should consider the following criteria: If you are unsure if your programme is appropriate, please contact Paul. If you are not currently working on a development project or programme or your programme does not meet the criteria noted above, you may instead choose to focus on one of the following case studies which have been developed for the purposes of this course based on real FAO projects: Please indicate your selection in your discussion forum posting.
 * 1) __In the planning stage__: Ideally, the selected programme will be one that is currently in the design stage or has been approved but not executed. This will allow you to design an impact evaluation for the programme that will be implemented along with the programme.
 * 2) __Clearly identifiable beneficiaries__: Since the focus of this course is on assessing the impact on targeted beneficiaries, you should choose a programme that has a component that has clearly identifiable beneficiaries—that is, which undertakes activities that provide direct support to the poor, food insecure, etc.
 * 3) __Limited set of activities:__ Many of you may be managing national programmes with multiple components and multiple sets of activities. While all of these may be amenable to impact assessment, for the purpose of this course it is best to focus on one component with clearly identifiable beneficiaries.
 * Cambodia: FAO-EC Urban and Peri-Urban Food Security Project or
 * Sudan: Sustainable Food Security Through Community-Based Livelihood Development.

__Instructions__ Please write a brief summary of 1-2 single spaced pages of the key aspects of the programme, including: In order to submit your file (you may submit the assignment in a Word or PDF document), scroll down to the end of the page and use the browse button to select the file in your computer and then click on the "Upload this file button".
 * 1) the development problem the programme addresses
 * 2) the objectives of the programme
 * 3) the targeted investments envisioned in the programme to bring about the programme objectives,
 * 4) the component(s) of the programme you will focus on, and
 * 5) the targeted beneficiary population of the component(s).