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This document outlines the course syllabus for an Agricultural Project Planning and Analysis course. The course objectives are to introduce students to concepts of agricultural projects and their role in development, and to enable students to design, manage, analyze and evaluate projects. The course covers topics such as the project cycle, logical frameworks, project preparation, costs and benefits analysis, financial and economic feasibility studies, and project monitoring and evaluation. It is divided into 7 chapters taught over 12 weeks, and students will be evaluated through assignments, tests, and a final exam. The goal is for students to understand all aspects of project design, appraisal, and implementation.

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This document outlines the course syllabus for an Agricultural Project Planning and Analysis course. The course objectives are to introduce students to concepts of agricultural projects and their role in development, and to enable students to design, manage, analyze and evaluate projects. The course covers topics such as the project cycle, logical frameworks, project preparation, costs and benefits analysis, financial and economic feasibility studies, and project monitoring and evaluation. It is divided into 7 chapters taught over 12 weeks, and students will be evaluated through assignments, tests, and a final exam. The goal is for students to understand all aspects of project design, appraisal, and implementation.

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Public Service College of Oromia

Department of Agribusiness Management


AGRICULTURAL PROJECT PLANNING AND ANALYSIS (ABM 541)
Course syllabus

Program: weekend
Instructor:
Email _________________

Course Objective:
The course, Agricultural Project Planning and Analysis, is primarily designed to introduce students with
the basic concepts of agricultural (rural) projects and to make them have an insight into the role of
projects towards development of the country. The course is primarily designed hoping that students will
be highly benefited from it as they may have future opportunities to work as a project designer, manager,
analyst or evaluator. At the end of the course, students are expected to be able to:
 understand the cocept of agricultural projects, their importance towards national development and
their features;
 get an insight about the various aspects of project identification, costs and benefits, and project
cycle;
 understand the different aspects of project preparation and analysis;
 clearly see the financial and economic(social) feasibility studies(analysis) of projects and the
rationale behind such analyses;
 examine the two major approaches to measure economic costs and benefits of projects;
 get an understanding about the different methods of selecting or appraising agricultural projects;
 have idea about risk and uncertainty and the techniques of incorporating the risk aspect in the
analysis of projects and;
 to examine the different factors which will lead a project to fail or succeed after implementation
and the recommendations there off.
Course Outline:
Chapter I: THE PROJECT CONCEPT ……………………………………… 6 hr(week 1 and 2).
1.1. The project concept(definition, features and importance)
1.2. Plans and projects
1.3. The project environment
1.4. Types of agricultural projects
1.5. Project cycle(definition and stages)
1.6. Project identification(sources of ideas and tools)
1.7. Problems of Project Design and Implementation
Chapter II: THE LOGICAL FRAMEWORK…………………………….…… 6hr (week 3 and 4)
2.1 The Analysis Stage
2.1.1. Stakeholder Analysis
2.1.2. Problem Analysis
2.1.3. Objective Analysis
2.1.4. Strategy Analysis
2.2. The Logframe matrix
2.3 The Planning Stage
Test 1: chapter 1 and 2 (week 5) ………………………………………………………..20%

Chapter III: ASPECTS OF PROJECT PREPARATION AND ANALYSIS…….6hr (week 6 and 7)


3.1 Technical aspects
3.2 Commercial(Demand and Market) aspects
3.3 Institutional-Organizational-Managerial aspects
3.4 Financial aspects
3.5 Economic, social and Political aspects
3.6 Environmental(ecological) aspects

Chapter IV: PROJECT COSTS AND BENEFITS ……………………………6hr(week 8and 9).

4.1. Objectives, Costs and Benefits


4.2. Categories of Project Costs
4.3. Categories of Project Tangible Benefits
4.4. Intangible and Secondary Project Costs and Benefits
Test 2: covers chapter 3 and 4 (week 10) ……………………………………………..20%

Chapter V: FINANCIAL FEASIBILITY STUDY (ANALYSIS)……………..9hr (week 10,11and 12)

5.1 Objectives of financial analysis


5.2 Market analysis
5.3 Pricing project costs and benefits
5.4 Financial export and import parity prices
5.5 Farm investment analysis
5.6 Computing debt service (time value of money)
5.7 Financial ratio analysis (efficiency, income and creditworthiness ratios)
Assignment 1: cover chapter 5 …………………………………………………………..20%

Chapter V I: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ANALYSIS………………………6hr.


1.8. Purpose of economic analysis
1.9. Economic and social cost benefit analysis
1.10. Approaches to measure economic costs and benefits of a project
UNIDO approach
Little-Mirrlecs approach
Chapter VII: Project Monitoring and Evaluation………………………………..9hr
(Optional)
Final Exam covers chapter 5 and 6 ……………………………………………..40%

References:
1. Gittinger, P.J. 1982. Economic Analysis of Agricultural Projects. 2nd Edition. The Johns Hopkins
University Press.
2. Kanshahu, I.A. 1996. Planning and Implementing Sustainable Projects in Developing Countries:
Theory, Practice and Economics. AgBe Publishing.
3. Cusworth, W.J. & Franks, R.T. 1993. Managing Projects in Developing Countries. Longman.

Evaluation:

 Continuous Assessment ………………………. 60%


 Final examination ……………………… 40%

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