Future Partners offers a flexible project-management service. It's tailored to the needs of individual clients and available at any stage while they're implementing a project.
Getting started
- project start-up — finding an office and setting up a local company (if offshore), preparing or adapting operations manuals to comply with local conditions and laws, recruiting key staff, mapping suppliers, arranging security assessments, and mobilising incoming international team members
- planning — preparing the project implementation plan, inception plan, communications plan, risk management plan, security plan, procurement plan and any other plans the client's donor requires
Running the project
- procuring goods and services, using the donor's procurement system
- complying with the donor's due-diligence requirements
- setting up governance and management arrangements — terms of reference for governance groups, templates for agendas and meeting reports, and tools to track actions and decisions
- involving stakeholders in monitoring the project and giving feedback on its progress (including surveys and focus-group discussions)
- gathering baseline data at the start, so change can be tracked over the project's lifetime
- establishing systems to gather, analyse and report on data, so progress can be monitored
- setting up reporting to donors, to meet their requirements and deadlines
- using monitoring information to improve and adapt the project while it's underway
- training staff to develop and use monitoring tools and systems, collect and analyse data, and use it to make decisions
- identifying and managing the issues, risks and dilemmas that inevitably arise during implementation
Winding down
- identifying options for continued funding of project activities when the project ends
- project closedown — winding up staff, supplier contracts and leases; audit and handover of assets; filing, data cleaning and handover; finalising work plans, staff-retention incentives and job support; activity completion reporting and lessons-learned documentation; office handover and demobilisation of international staff
