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very true,

I agree with you that identifying risks and assumptions is a very important, aspect in the successful implementation of project.

You're right ! Working as a team definitely is more effective especially in identifying risks and assumptions.

Log frame is really confusing especially the aspect of output and outcome.

At first I thought input to be money, ideas, resources until the input for the project of getting a good job became "taking a course" and my Project deals with the sensitization of the communities rated to have declined in HIV/AIDS and covid19 adherence to mode of contractions and also preventive measures.

Between my project and this project example, the inputs vary. Could you explain!

Decisions must not be based on assumption

It is really important to have a balance between planning a project and listing down risks and assumptions. While it is important to maintain a sense of optimism, it is still important to take into account every variable and externalities so that could achieve the impact that you want.

It is really important to have a balance between planning a project and listing down risks and assumptions. While it is important to maintain a sense of optimism, it is still important to take into account every variable and externalities so that could achieve the impact that you want.

Riak and assumption is about believes, there is no evidence about it that's why it considered to bais.

How can one mitigate the unexpected risks?

Risks are things outside of control that might disrupt project plan while biases are the things believed but not evidence-based.
Identifying them before the commencement of project helps to proffer solutions to overcome them before hand to enhance smooth implementation.

By carrying out proper planning the organisation can be able to identify and avoid potential risks which may arise during undertaking of their projects. Therefore well researched and arranged planning can be able to avoid and offer solutions to potential risks that may arise in a project
Assumptions
Although some of our assumptions may be right, most of the time they are lead by our personal beliefs and biases on certain issues and therefore should not be reliable

By carrying out proper planning the organisation can be able to identify and avoid potential risks which may arise during undertaking of their projects. Therefore well researched and arranged planning can be able to avoid and offer solutions to potential risks that may arise in a project
Assumptions
Although some of our assumptions may be right, most of the time they are lead by our personal beliefs and biases on certain issues and therefore should not be reliable

Assumptions may at times be helpful under certain scenarios where you actually know about the project or you have experience about a particular project, but i still vote for data reliance rather than our assumptions and judgements

Assumptions may at times be helpful under certain scenarios where you actually know about the project or you have experience about a particular project, but i still vote for data reliance rather than our assumptions and judgements

Risks which aren't identified can lead to great losses for projects,therefore a well structured M and E plan should be able to spot this potential risk and offer solutions for them
Assumptions
Personal assumptions and biases should not be a guide to decision making, therefore one should use data instead

In order to achieve a successful project design, it is of great importance that we factor risks and assumptions into every level of activity in our project lograme.
We live in a world that is constantly dynamic in nature with respect to the many events that pervades our communities.
Without a fore plan of risks and assumptions factored into every phase of our project design logframe; an identification of indicators which can measure to to determine whether we are making progress in our project, such a project is doomed to fail.
Therefore, it is mandatory that, an M&E expert must plan, think, and forecast in the fore view of a detailed project logfame.

A risk is an uncertain threat that, in case of occurring, could have a negative impact in the completion of the Goal or Activity and the achievement of the goal and objective. An assumption, on the other side, is the necessary condition that will enable the successful completion of the Goal or Activity.

Generally, Risks and Assumptions are external factors that the project is not responsible for, which however can affect the project implementation significantly.

Risks and Assumptions are very important in achieving the intended project output and outcome, and ultimately the impact. It is therefore, critical to identify the risks and monitor them as they turn to issues throughout the project cycle as those could make or mar the success of any project. It also helps to manage the expectations of the sponsors and key stakeholders.

Identifying risks ahead of time is a sure way to make much progress on a project and to make the most of time without unnecessary delays.

Mercier bien pour le cours qui est vraiment très intéressant pour moi. J'ai juste quelques questions sur la partie impact de projet est ce qu'il peut avoir trois ou quatre Voir même 7?

Risks and assumptions is a step that left many people people not go forward in designing a project.

Risk is a concept that denotes a potential negative impact that may arise from a future event and it beyond anyone's control. The possibilities involve loss, catastrophe and an undesirable outcome. In case of its occurrence its important to have a management team.

Risks are events or conditions that may occur in the process of the project implementation which are beyond control and cause negative harm. Its important to have a Risk management team on board that will reduce or eliminate the exposure of loss.

Setting target not only motivates the team members but also make work easier.

Risks and assumptions should be managed wee, because if they materialize it means that they were not well prepared for therefore coming up with solutions way ahead of them will minimize their effect to the project.

Let’s take an example of a common statement that is included in many Project Definitions – that the resources needed for this project will be available when needed. What kind of a statement is this? Most people would say it is an assumption. After all, when a project starts, you always assume you will get the resources you need.

However, is it really an assumption? Can you imagine starting a project where the people and equipment were not available and there was a realistic possibility that they would not be ready when you need them – perhaps because another project needed to finish first? It is not too difficult to imagine that scenario. In that case, the same statement would definitely be a risk – not an assumption.

The same statement might be an assumption or a risk depending on the circumstances of your particular project. There is some degree of uncertainty to an assumption. If the event is negative and there is a low probability that it will happen, it can be stated as an assumption. If the event is positive and there is a high likelihood it will happen, it is also an assumption. One way to identify important assumptions is to perform a risk assessment and look at all the low-risk items. Most of these low risks are not worth mentioning, but some will have significant implications if events do not turn out as you think. These are the ones that you can document as assumptions.

There are two key characteristics of risks and assumptions. First, there must be some uncertainty to the event. If there is 100% chance of an event occurring, it is simply a fact. If there is a 0% chance of the event occurring, it is fiction. Neither are risks or assumptions.

Second, assumptions and risks are both outside the total control of the project team. If the event is within the control of the project team it is neither an assumption nor a risk. It should simply be managed to make it happen.

Risks and assumptions are very crucial in project implementation. I'm tending to think they might impede progress if not thoroughly looked into.

Very true

usually, Risks can impact negatively to the project expected outcomes, if not well addressed before the onset of the project, Risks always must be discussed and figures out. must be also put in place mechanisms to control if arises any risk during project implementation.
IF and then Assumptions must be used, during the preparation of Log frame, it can give wider space to think what will happen during the implementation of the project

Risk and assumptions are very important factors to consider when creating a log frame. Risk and assumption factors needed to be understood and stated clearly inorder to guide the project. Once the project risk and assumptions are understood, it will serve as a guide to make better decisions that will help in achieving project goal or impact in any case, risk and assumptions arises during the project cycle.

Ribolded textsks are the things that are going to disturb the goals or end results of one's project . Risks and assumptions will be the activities that one can not control that will negetively affect ones project goals a

Risk is the uncertainty assumption that hinders the project. The risk can be both internal and external. Eternal Risk is that can manage direct during the activities. while external risk beyond the hand of management

A risk is an uncertain threat that, in case of occurring, could have a negative impact in the completion of the Goal or Activity. An assumption is the necessary condition that will enable the successful completion of the Goal.

The main difference between an assumption and a risk is that when we make an assumption we expect that assumption to happen , with a risk we anticipate that the risk might happen and thus negatively impact our project. If the risk doesn't materialize then the project will benefit.

Risk and assumption are key elements in a successful project design.

Yeah it is so helpful undoubtedly. It creates a new horizon of thinking

Yeah it is so helpful undoubtedly. It creates a new horizon of thinking

Is there any technical problem or the discussion question is not applicable?

The risk and assumptions have been presented well in this module if anyone need

The module was real help by now i can manage to produce my own logframe

Is it necessary to put the risks in a project?

The module was real help by now i can mangae to produce my own logframe

Not recognizing the truth about the targets, especially about the difficulties that might be involved.

Having Risks and assumptions in a good way to check if your project can be implemented and can help redefine the impact in the M&E plan.

Risks and assumptions are possible factors that might negatively affect the desired results of the project

Taking into consideration risk that will prevent or hinder the implementation of your project with give you a better chance to make assumptions that will be able to make you overcome those risks

Taking into consideration risk that will prevent or hinder the implementation of your project will give you a better chance to make assumptions that will be able to make you overcome those risks

Risks are the things beyond your control that may disrupt your plan. An assumption is that thing that you believe without any evidence.

It is important to find out your risks and assumptions during the project design stage so you can plan ahead on how to handle them. It also helps you identify your biases and how to work against them

This is tru

Is there a methodic way of making assumption and risk to assure that such risks are realistic to the context and reality of the project and implementation location?

I honestly hardly linked the risks /assumptions at different levels, impact level, outcome level and output level

Risk and assumption is also considerable thing in building logframe. If we ignore potential risk and assumption in developing logframe, we could not get the good one.

Risk and assumption is also considerable thing in building logframe. If we ignore potential risk and assumption in developing logframe, we could not get the good one.

Risks are factors outside of your control that could cause any project go poorly.
For example
MEH project can have risks of;
The young girls getting early pregnancy.
Not having enough information or data on how to run a business.
Miss management of the given Micro loans on other useless things .
Assumptions things one believe without any evidence.
For example MEH may have the assumptions of the girls not miss using the Micro loans.

Assessing risks and assumptions enable one to plan adequately and assess where there is a likelihood of failure. This therefore helps to seal all the loopholes which may hurt the project plan.

Assessing risks and assumptions enable one to plan adequately and assess where there is a likelihood of failure. This therefore helps to seal all the loopholes which may hurt the project plan.

Risksand Assumptions are things that can negatively affect your project

During the design phase, can't there be a small survey with the target population to make more informed risks and assumptions for the project?

This is a very important part of the project design which is often overlooked. I have developed projects and programs and included these and no one bothers about them

Identifying risks and assumptions may not need a survey. Already a formative research will have been done to inform the project and these will be captured in there

Risks and assumptions are a very important part of designing a project and support a lot during evaluation if certain goals are not met

I do agree that data reliance is good but what if you do not achieve on your goals yet you did not have certain assumptions in place for example pandemics that could affect the entire implementation of your project

Have you applied this to your project? How was the experience

An educative journey so far.
The "Risks and Assumptions" column is the part of your project that if not taken care of critically can pose a lot of challenges to the achievement of the goal. It requires a lot of thinking and understanding of the project at hand.
Thank you Philanthropy U

I think managing risks and assumptions is an important aspect of project design and M&E especially when it comes to contexts that the organization is not familiar with. I do believe that especially in the international aid sector this would help prevent failed aid projects. Consequently, to identify risks and assumptions organizations should make community members thought-partners.

Assessing risks and assumptions enable one to plan adequately and assess where there is a likelihood of failure. This therefore helps to seal all the loopholes which may hurt the project plan.

Riks as war or politic instability can put on impact risk

I have through gain a lot from this module more especially the meaning and difference between risk and assumption

Risks are the unforeseen circumstances/conditions that could interrupt the implementation and success of a project. The risks could be with in the implementing organisation or in its external environmental. It is there very crucial for an organization to assess both its internal and external environment for any potential projects during project design.
Examples of internal risks include having limited staff or staff lack skills to implement the project effectively. External risks could include the political or economic environment in the implementation area.

Assumptions are the things we think or take as acceptable without any clear evidence. Assumptions could also be derived from the risks and cut across all stages of project implementation.

Formanynproject therefore to be implemented successfully, there is need to adequately assess the risks so that mitigation or avoidance measures are well structured into project design. There is need to also constantly monitor the project during implemantation for any risks that might come along during implementation.
How well we integrate our risks and assumptions in the project design determines how successful the project will be.

We were taken by surprise by a lockdown imposed by the government of Uganda. We were running a project called CBIM (Coaching Boys Into Men) but we never thought our activities could get interrupted by the COVID-19 lockdown. Luckily, we were able to adjust for other activities in our program but the CBIM did not survive because it required physical presence of participants.

There is nothing much that we can do about this but in the future, we will definitely list an outbreak as a potential risk that we might face in the implementation of our programs.

Looking for risks and assumptions is a powerful way to escape your biases.

Risk are the things or processes outside your control that can disrupt your plan. It is important to envisage possible risk and possible ways to mitigate risk when developing the log frame of your project. Assumptions are things you believe in that are not backed by evidence. Every once in a while we make assumptions that may or not be true. So its important to work with evidence in before designing a project.

Bonsoir Madame/Monsieur!
D'après ce qui a été dis dans le cours, les risques et hypothèses sont des choses ou évènements qui pourraient perturber le bon déroulement du plan.
Mes questions sont les suivantes?

• Qu'est ce qui différencie un risque d'une hypothèse?
• Au niveau de la forme, les risques et hypothèses une fois identifiés sont formulés de la même manière?
• Est ce que tous les risques identifiés sont reportés dans le cadre logique, peu importe leur gravité?

When thinking of risks and assumptions I found out that my outcomes and impacts were too similar. The impact my organization had landed upon was not "big enough". Our impact was just merely the execution of the outcomes. Stopping to think about risks and assumptions made us realice this similarity and it helped us adjust.
We understood that as we go up the logframe we find more risks and assumptions and this is normal, but this should not limit us to think big and expect to have larger impact.

The risks and assumptions column of a logframe lists all the things that might disrupt your plan. For each level of your logframe - inputs, outputs, outcomes, and impact - you ask: what could go wrong? Is there anything that might prevent you from providing the inputs? And, if you provide the inputs, are you sure that this will lead to the outputs?

Remember the if/then statements that we made at the beginning of this module? Here is an example to remind you:
IF you have new knowledge, THEN you will perform better on job applications.

The risks and assumptions column of a logframe lists all the things that might disrupt your plan. For each level of your logframe - inputs, outputs, outcomes, and impact - you ask: what could go wrong? Is there anything that might prevent you from providing the inputs? And, if you provide the inputs, are you sure that this will lead to the outputs?

Remember the if/then statements that we made at the beginning of this module? Here is an example to remind you:
IF you have new knowledge, THEN you will perform better on job applications.

The risks and assumptions column of a logframe lists all the things that might disrupt your plan. For each level of your logframe - inputs, outputs, outcomes, and impact - you ask: what could go wrong? Is there anything that might prevent you from providing the inputs? And, if you provide the inputs, are you sure that this will lead to the outputs?

Remember the if/then statements that we made at the beginning of this module? Here is an example to remind you:
IF you have new knowledge, THEN you will perform better on job applications.

Should we include political interferences as risks that may affect our logframe

I was wondering how risks and assumptions should be phrased. I presume, risks will be stated in negative terms and the assumptions are just statements. And how would I know a project is stating only risks and others only assumptions - what choices should we make in selecting the listing.

That was great

1. The girls' businesses might not be financially successful
2. Girls might not want to start or upgrade businesses.
3. Girls might be discourage from starting or upgrading businesses by their family or culture
4. Girls might not know how to start or upgrade a business.
5. Microloans are given to the wrong people.
6. Girls are not interested in getting microloans.
7. There are not enough funds for microloans.

Sometime when you are given to probably out line the risks and assumption, you stagger and actually thing so far from what can be easily identified as risks and assumption. however, with this module, its much clear how one can bring out these after looking through the project. what i really know is that risks and assumption can be underestimated.

any one here???

how donu fix this means of verification??

This course is so helpful, left the university but i stopped from tge lecture. i feel alive again now. I can do this, yeyyyy😊.

Assumptions are predefined positions we developed about some thing. unless we have data or evidence , we can't be sure but give as some insight about the situation. And risk are more negative scenarios or events that would disrupt our project.

Unrealistic targets emerge when we tend to focus on ambitious goals to achieve . in addition, the capacity to use data and generate meaning full prediction leads to un realistic targets. so we need concert data to set targets and it requires to detach oneself from biases.

risk and assumptions are all negative effects that can come to your project during planing and implementation can be a security, disaster, conflict, refused to implement the project, misunderstanding of the beneficiary and so on.

Risks and Assumptions are notions and ideas that the researcher often has and thinks about in terms of the factors which may delay the progression of the project and the outcomes that may be intended. An example would include thinking that young people don't want to engage in SRH activities because they are ignorant and feel embarrassed to access the SRH services.

Risks and Assumptions are notions and ideas that the researcher often has and thinks about in terms of the factors which may delay the progression of the project and the outcomes that may be intended. An example would include thinking that young people don't want to engage in SRH activities because they are ignorant and feel embarrassed to access the SRH services.

How assumptions are different from risks?

But I think there is a bite diiference. as defined by the M&E experts. the main difference between an assumption and a risk is that when we make an assumption, we expect that assumption will happen. If the assumption doesn't happen then the project is negatively affected. With a risk we anticipate that the risk might happen and thus negatively impact our project.

Il y a bien une légère différence.

I find this part of the logframe very important as you get to think about any potential issues that might stand in the way and prevent the realization of the project. This is very crucial as you well have to think about them well in advance, and this is an important element of the planning process and also decision making.

True, the fact that you have to think about them well in advance and include them in the logframe has good implications for planning, once anticipated, there is room for adjusting things around to a avoid pitfalls. That makes management easier than without them?

Risks and Assumptions are very vital indices in project design. Identifying them would open your empirical minds rather than just your feels or perception about the possible outcome of your project.

Identifying your risks and assumptions would help you prepare for future threats against the actualization of the project goal.

Can I formulate my risks and assumption based the unforeseeable challenges that were encountered by previous similar projects?

I also still find it hard

I think its really hard to exhaust all the risks and assumption related to the project

Risk and Assumption consists of impact, outcomes, outputs and inputs , it also talks about project summary, indicators, means of verification.