Project management steps for

development of youth projects

STEP 1

Needs analysis – Why this project is needed? For whom is it needed?

- What are the challenges faced by the young people/rural community you live in?
- What are their priorities, their main needs?

Has it been done before to deal with the mentioned challenges and what is innovative
about your idea?

Who will be the target group(s) of your project? Please specify with whom who are you
going to work? (age group, characteristics of the target group)

be a bit more specific -> underprivileged youth.

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Defining the aims – What is the project for?

(The aims should be expressed in one or very few sentences that contain the essence of the
project and can be read almost independently from the rest of the project.)
Guiding questions:
- What is your project for? (reason)
- What do you want to achieve/change (within your rural community, region)? (impact)

Our aim is…

To share good practice via training among youngsters for entrepreneurship.

STEP 3
Defining Objectives

So, concretely, how are you going to achieve the aim of your project?

Guiding questions:

What should young people learn during the project?

What necessary steps do you need to take in order to achieve the aim? Are your objectives
What would be possible outcomes of the project? SMART?
Specific
Measurable
• · To be able to learn the process Achievable
• · From idea to working model of entrepreneurship
• · Add theoretical framework Realistic
• · Via training
Timed

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 STEP 4

QUALITY CRITERIA for Youth Projects

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 STEP 5
Defining the Methodology – Activities – How?

Think about possible activities, which might help to achieve your objectives and lead you
towards reaching the aim of the project.
Guiding questions:
- When are you going to do what?
- What will be done for preparation, implementation and evaluation?
- Which activities will be on local level and which - on international one?
- Are all your objectives covered by the activities?

Planning (involvement of young people in the preparation process, on local and int. level)
KA2 projects involving 9 countries from 5 different TC in 5 different countries and intellectual
output in the end. The project will last 18 months. Most of our activities will be on
international level. Preparation fase is the discovery of talents of underprivileged youth using
individual talks, groups brainstormings and simulations. We’re gonna influence courses and
workshops on social skills, entrepreneurship, talents and crafts, and trainers who are experts
in their fields they’re gonna implement youth debating, role-play, TED talks, lectures, video-
presentation of good practices around the world.
The trainnings are going to be implemented in 5 days of technical work and 2 days of
practical work. In the last part of the project there are the intelectual output. We are gonna
create official guidelines and the booklet ‘the hidden talents of the youth’. Those outputs
will show the direction on how to let come out the hidden talents of unprivileged youth.

Implementation (programme/list of activities (workshops, discussions,) corresponding to the

defined objectives and the quality criteria; aiming at ‘visibility’;)

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 STEP 6

How are you going to consider / point out the special needs / conditions of
rural young people?

- Age 18 -30
- Open to discover her / his hidden talents
- English skills
- Motivation
- Communication skills of young people => as a trainer
- Organization skills to trainer
- Analysis skills
- Age open
- English skill

Interviews => Google doc

Step 7

Planning resources – How many/much?

Guided questions:
What kinds of materials are needed for your activities? Which ones do you already have and
which one you need to buy?
What equipment might be needed? Are you planning rent or buy it?
What spaces are needed for running the activities? Do you own them? Do you need to rent them?
Will you need any external people like trainers, consultants?

Needed resources

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 STEP 8
The Title of the project

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