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to identify risk and assumptions it is always best to think of the possible negative out come and the bias that may affect the project planning process and data collection

I once led a team to document an evaluation of or end of a project. The assumptions were more about the the number of days allotted to work. We feared that the time was not sufficient. But, while working we ended achieving the the target

An assumption can be a risk to a project if it did not come to pass. In one of our programs for drug abuse where we were sure that one of our counseling expert will be available, but he could not meet up the scheduled time due to heavy traffic that lasted for hours. What we did to address it was substitute him a close resource perdon who was close and he was still able to take his session the nexy day.

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@sphanor said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

To identify Risks and Assumptions, it is helpful to think about _____________________________________
Since I have only been working at my current job for five months, without incidents, I must say, I will list a for instance scenario.
Before starting a project, there is a high probability of something going "sideways." Some of the many reasons for this happening is;

• A lack of organization

• Excessive compliance failure

• Complying with/ignoring new Regulations

• It is very important to be very clear from the beginning of a project what the expected objectives and outcomes will be, and to identify what specific changes are expected for what specific area (s).

• Start with and end with desired results, and include all team members involved with project.

i think outcomes are not your design they are the consequence or product of you input and output

Yes, outcomes are effects of your activities that are entirely out of your control. It can be either way.

To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to consider physical elements like the weather, how it can affect project activities. When we started the children's holiday club we did consider that the weather would affect our daily program. As a result when it rained and flooded the building we spent more time focusing on how to resolve the water problem. We didn't have a plan B so on that day children spent half the day playing rather than on the activities we had planned for the day.

@Tiga said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

@Loraini said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about all possibilities of what will negatively affect the outputs, inputs and outcome of your project. It can vary from natural, social, political, cultural, financial causes. In one of our project, one of the risks that the project had to deal with was the unpredicted category 5 cyclone that encountered the project just when the project had started making it difficult for communities to commit because they were faced with problems that needed urgent attention such as improving social services, health and basic needs. The project had to spend some money to unplanned activities to help these communities back on their feet.

Am still learning and want to understand more, do risks have to affect a project negatively? For instance what if you make assumptions which can help the project to save time and money. What will that be classified as?

@Loraini, Risk are things outside our control that might disrupt your project plans whilst assumption are your baises, meaning these are things you believe that might disrupt your project plans but you dont have enough evidence to substanciate it. Coming to your question that if risk affect a project negatively is YES. This is the main reason it best we try to identify most if not all so we can find the best way possible to mitigate them for the project to be successful. For the last question about making assumption that save the project time and money will still be classified as assumption. The essence to identify risk and assumption during the planing phase is to help the project team mitigate ways to so that the project complete successfully within scope and budget.

To identify risks and assumptions, I think it is important to think of the number of people you intend to reach out to, the resources that you are likely to have, your target population and the type of project you have.
This will then help you to adequately plan and see if the available resources are enough for the targeted population or if you have the right population targeted for your project.

@CabdiraxmanHayaan said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

@Course_Operations said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Share one instance from your organization when a risk or assumption took the team by surprise. What did you learn from this experience? What tips for identifying risks and assumptions can you share with your peers?
Sample Post: To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about _______ .

It was in early this year 2019 when our project was starting at that time. we have discussed the overall scenarios of the risks and assumptions. The project's name is Hooyo Ku Hooyo in Somali which laterally means, mother to mother. A mother transferring health knowledge to another mother. It is about educating mothers of the reproductive age to the health benefits of having connected to the health centers. one study showed that more than 80% of the Somali mothers of the reproductive age and the pregnant and lactating mothers do not have the habit of going to the health facilities. SO in light of that. we have assumed the risks that may come ahead of the kick off of the project. To our surprise one the staff proposed that husbands may refuse their wives to listen or to accept the learning. So we all got shock, how dare a person whose wife taking knowledge is being refused by her husband. That was our.

@CabdiraxmanHayaan, Do you considered your colleague assumption? Do your encounter his/her assumption when implementing the project. Please share with us so we can learn from your experience.

@Loraini said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about all possibilities of what will negatively affect the outputs, inputs and outcome of your project. It can vary from natural, social, political, cultural, financial causes. In one of our project, one of the risks that the project had to deal with was the unpredicted category 5 cyclone that encountered the project just when the project had started making it difficult for communities to commit because they were faced with problems that needed urgent attention such as improving social services, health and basic needs. The project had to spend some money to unplanned activities to help these communities back on their feet.

So is it okay to divert funds meant for other activities of the project to activities that were not originally part of the project at the planning stage?

How can i discover Risk in my project

How can i discover Risk in my project

To identify and manage risks, it is helpful to use a risk registry that will identify the risk event/s, the likelihood it will happen, and the severity of consequences to the project if it happens. Risk events with moderate to high likelihood and severity will need corresponding risk avoidance, transfer, mitigation measures to bring them down to a level that will not hurt the project. To identify assumptions, it is helpful to talk to as many stakeholders especially those who will articulate their doubts, criticisms, past experiences, and a different take of reality. Here, it is important to engage a cross-section of the project community according to sex, age groupings, ethnicity, geographical location, fields of expertise, etc.

To identify risk and assumptions, it is helpful to think about things that you don't have control over, for instance: Weather, death in the community you are working in and many more.
in one occasion we are heading off to an offshore island to conduct Disaster Ready Training, we arrived in the community just to find out that they is a funeral so we had to organize a last minute plan to do the training in another location so communication also is very important, the more we communicate, we get information earlier and act on it.

To identify and manage risks, use a risk registry that show all possible risk events, the likelihood that the event will happen, and the severity of consequences if it happens. Scoring for likelihood and severity can be used for easier risk assessment. Risk with the highest score will need risk avoidance, transfer, mitigation measures.

To identify assumptions, engage as many stakeholders as you can keeping in mind to get representatives from a cross- section based on sex, age groupings, ethnicity, religion, income brackets, geographical location, field expertise, etc.

We distributed chickens to household partners – only to find out later that most of the chickens died because of diseases they contracted in a poultry house that received all chicks from various suppliers across the country. The project lost money in the process and delayed the achievement of the output -- all because we did not carefully assessed the risks with experts (veterinarians), and we came from the wrong assumptions (the native chickens we procured were free of diseases or that they are resilient to stresses/shocks).

The organization had planned to conduct surveys. surprisingly, that time of colleecting data coincided with the electoral period and Government forbade any survey in the community except authorised political meetings

@apostledavid58 said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

I was once part of a LoveLife Ngo tram and we headed to rural communities to distribute condoms and pass on some sex-health information...we had roughly estimated a turn up of less that 100 participants and the local community hall. But to pur Suprise we had ran out of Flyers and condom packs to give away....

Ooh that was really disappointing but i suggest that in such cases you should always carry extra items.For example if your target turn-up is 100,you should atleast carry 150 flyers and 200 condoms in this case.

@ruhumuriza1 said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

The organization had planned to conduct surveys. surprisingly, that time of colleecting data coincided with the electoral period and Government forbade any survey in the community except authorised political meetings

That was an abrupt situation but i think it would be better to plan for such meetings so that in case of any eventuality,there is room for postponement such that you don't lose resources.

@Tiga said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

I always believe in stakeholder engagement when designing a project. By so doing you get a clear understanding of all the risks and assumptions which may affect all parties involved in the project.

In my organization while designing the Youth Apprenticeship Project (YAP) where we wanted to turn fresh graduates into job creators we assumed that fresh graduates had the entrepreneurial ability. The risk we faced is that some graduates did not want to be entrepreneurs, they preferred to be employed and however much we called them to join this project, their mind set was different.

My opinion would be that these fresh graduates sometimes need to be be educated on the benefits of being an enterptrenuer and the disadvantages of being employed.Peer education is necessary.

@Course_Operations said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Respond to this prompt after completing the content in Module 2.
Identifying risks and assumptions is a very critical aspect of the whole project design. Its difficulty will depend on the clarity of the project impact. The more logical and achievable impact, the easier task of assessing the risks and assumptions associated with it. While organizing a fundraiser event, we opted for an outdoor event and we assumed the weather would be sunny as such we did not plan for tents. Unfortunately it rained and we had to postpone the event. the lesson learnt is do not take any risk or assumption for granted. Factor all in your design to have better platform to measure the success of your project. To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think what logical ripple effect you would wish for from investing in the inputs and outputs.
Correctly identifying assumptions and risks ahead of time is one of the most difficult parts of project design.

Share one instance from your organization when a risk or assumption took the team by surprise. What did you learn from this experience? What tips for identifying risks and assumptions can you share with your peers?

Sample Post: To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about _______ .

@Orikurungi said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

@Tiga said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

I always believe in stakeholder engagement when designing a project. By so doing you get a clear understanding of all the risks and assumptions which may affect all parties involved in the project.

In my organization while designing the Youth Apprenticeship Project (YAP) where we wanted to turn fresh graduates into job creators we assumed that fresh graduates had the entrepreneurial ability. The risk we faced is that some graduates did not want to be entrepreneurs, they preferred to be employed and however much we called them to join this project, their mind set was different.

My opinion would be that these fresh graduates sometimes need to be be educated on the benefits of being an enterptrenuer and the disadvantages of being employed.Peer education is necessary.

That is a very good idea. stakeholders involvement might shed light on other risks that might not have considered by you or they may express their expectations with more clarity for better planning at the initial stage.

@Course_Operations said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Respond to this prompt after completing the content in Module 2.

Correctly identifying assumptions and risks ahead of time is one of the most difficult parts of project design.

Share one instance from your organization when a risk or assumption took the team by surprise. What did you learn from this experience? What tips for identifying risks and assumptions can you share with your peers?

Sample Post: To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about _______ .

Risks and assumptions are important factor to consider when designing a project so that when project go wrong you will have factor identified early. In my project of helping youth who are out of formal education do identify their employment pathway (Their dream work), Donner delayed to release fund for phase 3, while all activities was running this led the community to have lack faith with our organization.

In our quest to reduce poverty and food insecurity in the rural households, my organisation works to establish group owned rural irrigation schemes. We planned for one of the projects and engaged the primary stakeholders(rural farmers) among others. However, at the time of implementation, the traditional chief of the beneficiaries indicated that he would remove his endorsement of the project since we only notified him and had not followed the proper channels of notifying the traditional chief hence our action warranted a "fine". We had not anticipated that there could be fines emanating from development activities which would benefit the people led by the chief in question. We ended up forgoing some small activities to recover the financing that had gone into meeting the fine charged by the local chief.

Monitoring should also look for unanticipated changes with the project/ programme and its context, including any changes in project/programme assumptions/risks; this information should be used to adjust project/programme implementation plans.

@Course_Operations said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Respond to this prompt after completing the content in Module 2.

Correctly identifying assumptions and risks ahead of time is one of the most difficult parts of project design.

Share one instance from your organization when a risk or assumption took the team by surprise. What did you learn from this experience? What tips for identifying risks and assumptions can you share with your peers?

Sample Post: To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about _______ .

Correctly identifying assumptions and risks ahead of time is difficult but important as it will allow to device alternative measures that might be useful when a risk or assumption takes place. We once organised a workshop assuming that that four of our trusted resource persons who were providing their services would attend only for a few two of them managing to do so. Fortunately we had made alternative arrangements for part of our staff to step in in the event of such a happening.

@Umar007 said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

While deciding on risk and assumptions it is important to think about all the negatives that come to mind

Hey @Umar007, I agree with you. normally, identification risks and Assumptions could allow you to create a comprehensive understanding that can be used to influence stakeholders and create better project decisions..

@Dmegastar said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

@apostledavid58 said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

At that moment there wasn't much that we could do except offer apologies and promises of bringing more supplies. But we learnt from that and made sure that prior to every visit to any location in future before going there for programs implementation, sometimes depending on old data provided by your country's general statistics can prove fatal to the success of your programs implementation

@apostledavid58 Data inaccuracy assumption almost cause a fatal failure hence there is the need to avoid this kind of risk by assuring data reliability.....Also a vital lesson was learnt from that experience....a proper M&E process needful before final decision

I agree with you@Dmegastar, you Know that Data are informations that we collect about our project for decision making. That's why data must be accurate, and reliable in all its life cycle..

@frutehenda said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Monitoring should also look for unanticipated changes with the project/ programme and its context, including any changes in project/programme assumptions/risks; this information should be used to adjust project/programme implementation plans.

Yes @frutehenda, risks and assumptions, could be used also to avoid surprise during the implementation of your project.

It is always good to define risks and assumption in planning a project to mitigate failures.
I was once part of a team to carryout expansion for of a rural telephony project.While we were planning for the project,we didn't give consideration for additional power(Breaker) for the expansion.On getting to site,we discovered that the boards to be added needed additional power for the expansion to be successful.This experience taught me two things;
1.Never to assume but to always carry out proper analysis(risk and assumption) before project execution.
2.Risk and assumption analysis is an important component in the planning process in mitigating failures.

@LawalGodwin said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

How can i discover Risk in my project

Hey @LawalGodwin, thanks a lot for your question. In order to discover risks and assumptions, you need first of all to get a team of stakeholders together to identify risks, because it's not a job of one person. So it's highly recommended to identify them at the beginning of your projects and at a regular basis through the life of your project, such as weekly. You know failed to identify risks and assumptions in advance, you risk your team to spend their time on things that do not matter

@Tavengwa said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

To identify risks and assumptions, I think it is important to think of the number of people you intend to reach out to, the resources that you are likely to have, your target population and the type of project you have.
This will then help you to adequately plan and see if the available resources are enough for the targeted population or if you have the right population targeted for your project.

After each project, you need to conduct a review with your stakeholders where you can capture the most significant risks and then make a checklist of that for the future reference..

It is very important to identify risks and ssumptions in the planning phase of project design.
In my last concluded project to roll out a new contraceptive in a State in Nigeria, the Launching of the programme would require the commissioner for health, Directors in the Ministry of Health and Primary Health care board as well as Family Planning supervisors to be in attendance.

It was assumed that due to the soon hand over in the state, the commissioner might be absent from the meeting. This was planned for as we ensured all other important stakeholders were well informed and got their approval/consent to attend the meeting.

On the day of the launch, the commissioner was absent but was ably represented by other decision makers in the Ministry of Health.

I think Risk and assumptions is a critical part, which can lead to unsuccessfull Project, because we never know what can outcome and create an obstacle to our Goal achievement, we have to deal with it and drawn a plan if that will be a barrier.
As an example: In Mozambique we will have in October elections for a President, normally at elections time the Donors are suspicious about the results and therefore they are extra cautious by Funds releasing.

@Course_Operations said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about

To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about the worst scenario for each step of our logframe. I do not have direct experience of project design, but I know that in my organization one of the most important risk to take into consideration is the relationship with Governments. Each Gov has its own internal procedures for ratifying the agreements and giving officials permissions to start the projects. Often the very slow political processes of the Governments or the fragility of their State made the whole project having being delays.

@Course_Operations said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Respond to this prompt after completing the content in Module 2.

Correctly identifying assumptions and risks ahead of time is one of the most difficult parts of project design.

Share one instance from your organization when a risk or assumption took the team by surprise. What did you learn from this experience? What tips for identifying risks and assumptions can you share with your peers?

Sample Post: To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about _______ .

To identify risk and assumptions it's important to understand the intention of possible and all stakeholders that could be involved in the project.

risks and assumptions are essentials tools in monitoring and evaluation, because they help us to think twice and all possible ways which can stop our project to reach the planned target.

through this modules i have learnt more for sure, and i am very happy( i am not working in any organization, i may share you my experience about this module 2)

thanks a lots.

@linnhtinhla77 said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Yes I agreed that, the important to identification of risk and assumptions, almost of peoples forget to consider about external risks and assumption on project because when developing preparation of project they are more consider about to success and meet the project objectives

@LINNHTINHLA77From the course readings, I find that carrying out formative research is extremely important as it will help us ti identify as many of these risks and assumptions as possible. Colleagues have mentioned elsewhere of the need to make this process participatory since the stakeholders usually know how to mitigate a number of these risks.

Identifying a risk calls for identifying how to mitigate the same. Risk analysis + mitigation leads to the making assumptions. So what can be done to reduce the severity of the risk? As humans, we might not be able to holistically scan the environment and correctly identify those external factors/circumstances that might befall the project.

I belief I need to prepare and include a budget for mitigating the risks.

there was a time we had to visit one of the IDP camps with my team to see if the use one of our product or the insurgency has made them change thier choice of meal. we took only 200kg so that we would branch other stores after the visit. to our greatest surprise most of the families had complain that they needed change in meal especialy our type of product. we were forced to do am emergency services yo them because of the situation at hand

Hello dear learner @asimao I really appreciate your understanding and agreed with you... just with a little further explanation. If we carefully measured and planned the expected risk or likelihood that might be possible to happen, thus we always create an open space in our planning for such risk to deal with. Which will not only increase the smooth running of a project but will lead towards success. The sample is that we should always design the project with alternatives and should not be stuck with pre-decided steps. Best wishes for your study...

Risks are events that may or may not occur (uncertain events). When they occur and are positive, are called opportunities, but when negative, are called threats. It is important to note that risk management is a continuous process throughout the project.To identify risk and assumptions, it is helpful to think about risk holistically. Risk definition, identification, qualitative and quantitative risk analyses, risk response planning and control is key. A major source of risk on a project is stakeholders. Therefore, stakeholder identification and analysis should be carried out to understand their level of power, influence, interest, and impact.
In my organization, lack of commitment or no buy-in from stakeholders was a big risk. However, having known their level of impact, influence, interest and power, we pleaded with the Influential and powerful to convince their peers to support and show commitment to the project. It worked and it was a success.

Bluesky, I agree with you. One should be proactive and not reactive. Risk should be qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed, and risk responses planned for. It is only when you know the probability of occurrence and impact that one can come up with a budget (contingency) to mitigate the risk.

@Tope_Olubodun said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

It is very important to identify risks and ssumptions in the planning phase of project design.
In my last concluded project to roll out a new contraceptive in a State in Nigeria, the Launching of the programme would require the commissioner for health, Directors in the Ministry of Health and Primary Health care board as well as Family Planning supervisors to be in attendance.

It was assumed that due to the soon hand over in the state, the commissioner might be absent from the meeting. This was planned for as we ensured all other important stakeholders were well informed and got their approval/consent to attend the meeting.

On the day of the launch, the commissioner was absent but was ably represented by other decision makers in the Ministry of Health.

@Tope_Olubodun That shows that the processes in project management are interwoven and intertwined. You carried out stakeholders and risk management simultaneously.

@Course_Operations said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about

I once worked for an organisation that was trying to increases her customer base through massive marketing, I remember suggesting that we ran radio jingles for a few days in other to get people to sign up fast. Unfortunately we got few calls and not one person signed up after three days on air. Although during my research I also suggested a live show which we decided to delete and that I think may have influenced more listeners to believe 'us' to more human than just recorded voices, hence we may have been able to gain their trust easily.

I think that Risks are Factors which are outside of your control that could cause your project to go poorly. These can be mitigated, or can cause suffering to your project

@Course_Operations said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Respond to this prompt after completing the content in Module 2.

Correctly identifying assumptions and risks ahead of time is one of the most difficult parts of project design.

Share one instance from your organization when a risk or assumption took the team by surprise. What did you learn from this experience? What tips for identifying risks and assumptions can you share with your peers?

Sample Post: To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about _______ .

As the project we are currently doing in our organization is very time sensitive, we planned around the risk that there will be one week were things might be put to a stand still because of the the elections. However we did not foresee that the effects of the election will spill into the following week as result were not announced in time.

I was an executive director of youth development organisation called Somali Youth Alliance Forum and we orgninsed to collect garbage to the villagers ..we have roughly estimated 100 residents to the villagers . But to our Suprise we have not had enough vehicles.

I was an educational team leader called YDO in a local community we have started to make awarnes in FGM women in about 200 young girls victimised FGM but an verginaly their parents are willing to take part awarnes.

Respond to this prompt after completing the content in Module 2.

Correctly identifying assumptions and risks ahead of time is one of the most difficult parts of project design.

Share one instance from your organization when a risk or assumption took the team by surprise. What did you learn from this experience? What tips for identifying risks and assumptions can you share with your peers?

To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about what if the project is not successful or delayed or is not going as planned. So, before the result may falter due to a missing component, I believe to think of each step necessary for our success.

Identification of risks and assumptions help to iron out the issues that might come up in the future to affects the project. It is advisable to come up with some risks and assumptions before starting the project. I want to give a scenario of my organization. My organization is implementing child protection program in one of the South Sudan rural communities. We distributed nonfoods items to children with protection concerns and referred them to another organization for educational support it happened one day that the organization concerns did not support the children and that make us feels like we are not doing to expectations. How do u advice me ?

Sometimes we need to involve these husbands also.Sometimes cultural beliefs hinder these people from cooperating but in this case when men are also involved it might change the attitudes that may follow.

@Tiga said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

I always believe in stakeholder engagement when designing a project. By so doing you get a clear understanding of all the risks and assumptions which may affect all parties involved in the project.

In my organization while designing the Youth Apprenticeship Project (YAP) where we wanted to turn fresh graduates into job creators we assumed that fresh graduates had the entrepreneurial ability. The risk we faced is that some graduates did not want to be entrepreneurs, they preferred to be employed and however much we called them to join this project, their mind set was different.

One of the issues to address will be to disabuse the mindsets of the fresh graduates and to appreciate becoming entrepreneurs

To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about what facets can affect the final impact of the project. It will mean looking at elements , experiences and factors that will have an influence on input, output,outcome and impact. Feedback from stakeholders and beneficiaries should be taken into consideration as they can be able to point out factors that the project team can not perceive. This will ensure an effective mitigation plan and thus give a cushioning of high probability of the project objectives being met. In the adult literacy project that we had our estimate for project implementation was 8000 women, but got application of 10,000 women. We were not expecting the same but due to savings realized in subsidized workshop rent we were able to accommodate the extra 2,000.

The best way to identify risks and assumption in projects is involving all the stakeholders involved in the project which includ head of units/depertment and external partners to identify all possible risks they might face in the future on the project and to advice the best way to mitigate such risk.

There was a situation we traveled with a machine to the field and the machine broke down and it took us days to be able to fixed the machine back beacuse we did not traveled with any engineer and we didn't even expect such to happened.

To identify risks & assumptions it is helpful to think about all possible scenarios and how they could impact the project, whether positively or negatively.
There is a time that we organized a youth career fair which aimed at availing career guidance & information for the youth and charged a small fee to cater for the refreshment of the participants. We had done a lot of publicizing and on the event day the turn up was very high, with quite a number unaware/unable to pay for the fee. We had to allow them join & be part of the forum.
This implicated on our initial plan. Fortunately, we were able to still serve them all thanks to the patners who were on board.

@linnhtinhla77 said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Yes I agreed that, the important to identification of risk and assumptions, almost of peoples forget to consider about external risks and assumption on project because when developing preparation of project they are more consider about to success and meet the project objectives

@linnhtinhla77 You are so right, external risks are often forgoten by project supervisors and it always have a stronge effect on project.

Executing a project is never without its challenges; so we learned when my organization launched the ALHN (Project 500) where we intended to onboard healthcare facilities on a EMR. Being that we were offering the software free with other benefits, we assumed that acceptance and adoption would be easy, because we knew from research that the huge financial cost was a burden for most healthcare facilities that prevented the adoption of technology.
To our surprise, it turns out that most facilities where stuck to their old way of doing things. They were skeptical of our 'free' offering(s) and decided that their use of paper in keeping patients record was well suited for them.
We then had to restrategize our engagement, invite key stakeholders who we knew would be an influence and present the package in a different way.

I once worked in a project aimed at providing clean water to the members of the community. The problem identified was that some people walk long distances to get clean water and the project decided to build water pumps closer to the village. The assumption was that with the water pumps closer the women would save time, and use that time to do other things. what happen was that some women continued to go to the further place to fetch water besides having the water pumps closer. when asked why they do that, the answer was that they preferred to go to the further place because they go in groups and use the time to socialize with other women, they chat and get along. So this shows how important is to identify the assumptions and risks to avoid biase. The project took for granted that those women needed water closer but It did not foresee the fact that the women also needed time to be with each other. If that had been thought about, maybe the project should have included other activities to give the space for women to be together and talk about their issues such as workshops and other things

Correctly identifying assumptions and risks ahead of time is one of the most difficult parts of a project design. This is majorly due to the fact that you cannot foresee all project risk during the planning stage. Some project risks arise during the implementation phase. I experienced this last year. We planted tomatoes in our 10 acre farm in the second week of October as we does. The assumption was that the rains would start the first week of November as usual. Unfortunately, the rains delayed up to the last week of November. As a result we exhausted all the water reserves we had in the first week of November. Without a plan to mitigate this unforeseen risk, all the plants dried up. What I learned from this incidence is that a project should spare some funds to mitigate unforeseen risks during the planning stage. Again, it is important to remain flexible as this will help to manage arising risks during project implementation. One important tip for identifying risks and assumptions is to scan your project's environment when designing the project. This will help to identify external risks to your project.

@fofanahosman26 said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

with Saving Lives project, after my organisation had intensively trained targeted health staff on digital health data collection and reporting, to our greatest surprised the health staff were unable to collect health data and report from the digital tablets (Samsung Tablets) to the dhis2 for the first two months of reporting after we had trained them. the reason according to some of them they were novice in using smart screen tablets, and other said it was another burden to their already overloaded duties at the health facility. this unexpected incident nearly cost the project outputs, outcomes and impacts.

My experience with this event was that: I never expected 21st century educated health workers scared of using smart-tablets/phones after intensive training on how to collect and report health data. Secondly, I did realized and empathized with them the additional job responsibility added to their already overloaded health facility work. the third experienced was, we had to conduct refresher training and incentive for monthly data collection and reporting which would had cost implication to the project budget, scope and time.
The tips in identifying risks and assumptions should be to ask the following questions:
What would go wrong that would affect the outputs, outcomes and impacts of the project?
Is there any unforeseen event that might prevent you from providing the inputs of the project?
If you actually provides the required inputs , you would be sure that these inputs will lead to the outputs of the pr

@fofanahosman26, From all what I gather from your explanation,is that you failed to run pretest or pilot test your data collection with the health workers before going into the full-scale of the project. I also notice that your monitoring system was not robust because it was two months into the project you realize things were not going as planned. My advice is that when you decide to use digital data collection, always make sure to pilot test the tools to see if people are comfortable with the instrument they are using ,skips pattern are working effectively, if some questions are to be rephrases, etc. Also make sure at most a week you should be retrieving these data for analysis to see if everything is going as planned or to prevent data lost as someone might crash their device or being stolen. Guess we can all learn from this.

@carlama said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

I once worked in a project aimed at providing clean water to the members of the community. The problem identified was that some people walk long distances to get clean water and the project decided to build water pumps closer to the village. The assumption was that with the water pumps closer the women would save time, and use that time to do other things. what happen was that some women continued to go to the further place to fetch water besides having the water pumps closer. when asked why they do that, the answer was that they preferred to go to the further place because they go in groups and use the time to socialize with other women, they chat and get along. So this shows how important is to identify the assumptions and risks to avoid biase. The project took for granted that those women needed water closer but It did not foresee the fact that the women also needed time to be with each other. If that had been thought about, maybe the project should have included other activities to give the space for women to be together and talk about their issues such as workshops and other things

@Carlama , This is the essence of community engagement. If you had fully involved the community into the planning phase of the project I believed you would have foreseen such risk.

@davdanhi said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

In our quest to reduce poverty and food insecurity in the rural households, my organisation works to establish group owned rural irrigation schemes. We planned for one of the projects and engaged the primary stakeholders(rural farmers) among others. However, at the time of implementation, the traditional chief of the beneficiaries indicated that he would remove his endorsement of the project since we only notified him and had not followed the proper channels of notifying the traditional chief hence our action warranted a "fine". We had not anticipated that there could be fines emanating from development activities which would benefit the people led by the chief in question. We ended up forgoing some small activities to recover the financing that had gone into meeting the fine charged by the local chief.

Hi davdanhi. It is amazing that a government officer can be an obstacle to a project meant to bring development to their territory. This risk may go unidentified during the planning phase. It is important to effectively engage all the stakeholders to achieve full project support.

@Course_Operations said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:
To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about many risks, for example in a Value Chain intervention we assumed that if we give seeds farmers will sow, but we failed to understand that, each kind of seed has different pattern of Package of Practice. This was an assumption that took us by surprise.

To identify risks and assumptions it is helpful to understand events and conditions that might affect your project, therefore giving you enough time to make decision at the right time, Also it is helpful to describe situations, events, which are necessary for success of the project, but which are completely beyond the control of the project's management.

Share one instance from your organization when a risk or assumption took the team by surprise.** What did you learn from this experience? What tips for identifying risks and assumptions can you share with your peers assumptions, it is helpful to think about _______ .**

That was during the launching od the IVF programme for which 50 person's were estimated. However, the number turned out to be more.
I believe it would be helpful to get a better estimate next time by administering surveys for the potential target patients.

@Course_Operations said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Respond to this prompt after completing the content in Module 2.

Correctly identifying assumptions and risks ahead of time is one of the most difficult parts of project design.

Share one instance from your organization when a risk or assumption took the team by surprise. What did you learn from this experience? What tips for identifying risks and assumptions can you share with your peers?

Sample Post: To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about _______ .

To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about what will possibly affect your project negatively from reaching its intended goal.
For my organization ADDS we enrolled our beneficiaries during SMILE OVC project in FY14 and after 5 years of implementation, the project year had elapsed and during our enrollment the directive for streams of enrollment fell around all forms of vulnerability like in poor Households, High Risk Adolescents, Street children, Double orphans, Single orphans etc. Eventually when the project elapsed and there was supposed to be transitioning from the project to another project running the same OVC program. The transition was between SMILE project implemented by CRS with funding from USAID/PEPFAR to iCARES project implemented by APIN Public health Initiatives with funding from CDC/PEPFAR and the Directive for enrollment was strictly for HIV positive beneficiaries. At this point over 90% of our enrollments was not from the enrollment stream which posed a high risk for us losing out of the project as an organization.

Other risks that the organization faced was not been able to implement activities within some of our communities as they were affected by Herds Men Crisis. Beneficiaries had to migrate from their communities to other areas in search for shelter and as such were loss to follow-up meanwhile making us not to meet our goals which was attaining care plan achievement or Households attaining resilience to be able to carter for their Household needs without any assistance.

In Identifying risks and assumptions you have to be proactive and open minded with your target beneficiaries about their concerns on what you intend to do and how they feel about the service you are about to render.

Our NGO took up a programme that involved in training teachers / faculty in active-constructive, learner-centered pedagogy in municipal schools. We had invited faculty from over 50 schools for a 2-day induction of a 2-year project. Over 100 participants turned-up. We had done a needs assessment by visiting a few sample schools and were being advised by the regional bureaucrats. We were taken by surprise as we had assumed that the participants would be motivated and interested in the programme. They rather said that they were over-worked and this training would be additional work. They blamed the same bureaucrats for not being connected with the ground reality. They took the induction as an opportunity to vent out their frustration.

@davdanhi said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

In our quest to reduce poverty and food insecurity in the rural households, my organisation works to establish group owned rural irrigation schemes. We planned for one of the projects and engaged the primary stakeholders(rural farmers) among others. However, at the time of implementation, the traditional chief of the beneficiaries indicated that he would remove his endorsement of the project since we only notified him and had not followed the proper channels of notifying the traditional chief hence our action warranted a "fine". We had not anticipated that there could be fines emanating from development activities which would benefit the people led by the chief in question. We ended up forgoing some small activities to recover the financing that had gone into meeting the fine charged by the local chief.

@davdanhi The scenario you shared is real and not far fetched in project implementation...believe it or not, execution of projects are still affected by cultural activities, customary procedures and sheer misunderstanding but truthfully , one of the ways to resolve this recurring impasse is to adopt the concept of project ownership where the beneficiaries and other stakeholders are carried along on the project from inception and made to understand that the project is their own ...therefore the success of it or otherwise is heavily dependent on them....Keep Learning

Hey everyone. Risk and assumptions identification is very primordial in project designing but also in activity implementation. We were once expected to offer HIV services in an island where a boat was supposed to be used. We had made plans that the boat belonging to the Ministry of Health would be of help as a partner. Fortunately, I gathered my team so we could think of risks and assumptions before we could implement that activity. The if/then statements helped in coming up with plan B just in case (if the boat from MoH is attached to other activity, then what will happen to our program?) And it came to pass that the day before the planned activity, the boat for ministry of health was unavailable. We immediately got in touch with the ministry of fishery that had a boat parked at the beach to come to our rescue and the activity finally took place.

In 2012, immediately after high school, I signed up as an occasional volunteer with Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia (PPAZ) in my hometown, Choma. The goal of this volunteering role was to educate the public about reproductive health related issues in communities on behalf of Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia (PPAZ). My scope was mainly highly populated townships in Choma town, where I and the rest of my team went house to house, educating and distributing condoms to people in the area.
To our surprise, most people we spoke to, particularly men, rejected our teachings, arguing that it is in their culture to marry as many wives as they could and have unprotected sex. One interesting response I got was that they did not believe in using condoms or practicing family planning with their wives because they paid dowry.
The major lesson I learnt from this experience was the importance conducting market research before doing such work. Unique cultural and social norms can affect the success of such a program. Many rural communities are deeply rooted in traditions and cultures around lack of trust for medical professionals. I learnt that I needed to make effort to recognize and understand these norms before implementing the program and develop strategies to address them.

In 2012, immediately after high school, I signed up as an occasional volunteer with Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia (PPAZ) in my hometown, Choma. The goal of this volunteering role was to educate the public about reproductive health related issues in communities on behalf of Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia (PPAZ). My scope was mainly highly populated townships in Choma town, where I and the rest of my team went house to house, educating and distributing condoms to people in the area.
To our surprise, most people we spoke to, particularly men, rejected our teachings, arguing that it is in their culture to marry as many wives as they could and have unprotected sex. One interesting response I got was that they did not believe in using condoms or practicing family planning with their wives because they paid dowry.
The major lesson I learnt from this experience was the importance conducting market research before doing such work. Unique cultural and social norms can affect the success of such a program. Many rural communities are deeply rooted in traditions and cultures around lack of trust for medical professionals. I learnt that I needed to make effort to recognize and understand these norms before implementing the program and develop strategies to address them.

To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about all the possible factors that can disrupt a project from achieving its goal. These factors could include religion, culture, weather, communication etc.

A situation happened when my organization planned an event on awareness/education for women on the alternative dispute resolutions in their businesses, our sponsors asked all the vendors to provide invoices for their services, it was misunderstood that vendors are expected to use their resources, which will be reimbursed afterwards.
On the day of the event, some vendors assumed their services was not needed and did not show up as they had not been properly informed about the payment process.
We were able to find other vendors but it came at a higher cost.
We learnt that poor communication can also disrupt a project.

@Anjorin said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

To identify risks and assumptions ,it is helpful to think about the unforeseen events and things we can not have control over.while conducting catering skills development for vulnerable girls,we experienced challenges whereby the girls come not because of the skills they will gain in catering but they come because they get money they do not pay much attention to skills.Again since skill development is combined with restaurant for attachment and practicals,the waitress end up eloping with male clients. this are risks we did not have thought of or control over.

I think an idea where an assessment is done, and only those who pass, are given access to the money or gets to the next stage for the attachment and practicals can be introduced. It might help a few pick interest on the skill.

Wow....This is mostly the case with rural areas, calm and consistent awareness also helps in changing their minds.

@Penzy said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

In 2012, immediately after high school, I signed up as an occasional volunteer with Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia (PPAZ) in my hometown, Choma. The goal of this volunteering role was to educate the public about reproductive health related issues in communities on behalf of Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia (PPAZ). My scope was mainly highly populated townships in Choma town, where I and the rest of my team went house to house, educating and distributing condoms to people in the area.
To our surprise, most people we spoke to, particularly men, rejected our teachings, arguing that it is in their culture to marry as many wives as they could and have unprotected sex. One interesting response I got was that they did not believe in using condoms or practicing family planning with their wives because they paid dowry.
The major lesson I learnt from this experience was the importance conducting market research before doing such work. Unique cultural and social norms can affect the success of such a program. Many rural communities are deeply rooted in traditions and cultures around lack of trust for medical professionals. I learnt that I needed to make effort to recognize and understand these norms before implementing the program and develop strategies to address them.

Wow, this is mostly the case in rural areas, but calm and consistent awareness also helps

@sune said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Correctly identifying assumptions and risks ahead of time is one of the most difficult parts of a project design. This is majorly due to the fact that you cannot foresee all project risk during the planning stage. Some project risks arise during the implementation phase. I experienced this last year. We planted tomatoes in our 10 acre farm in the second week of October as we does. The assumption was that the rains would start the first week of November as usual. Unfortunately, the rains delayed up to the last week of November. As a result we exhausted all the water reserves we had in the first week of November. Without a plan to mitigate this unforeseen risk, all the plants dried up. What I learned from this incidence is that a project should spare some funds to mitigate unforeseen risks during the planning stage. Again, it is important to remain flexible as this will help to manage arising risks during project implementation. One important tip for identifying risks and assumptions is to scan your project's environment when designing the project. This will help to identify external risks to your project.

I agree, there should always be plans to mitigate unforeseen risks.

It's important to identify the culture of your target group.
It's also important to identify the level of education of your target group.
It's also important to understand your capacity and act in accordance to your limits.
There is also need to be able to understand that you will identify some of the risks as you as you run the project

How that was sad actually our project aims to provide quality service for refugees and in one of my experiences we went out to vaccinate young girls tetanus and the community didn't really take the idea because they didn't understand what we were doing fully

Correctly identifying assumptions and risks ahead of time is one of the most difficult parts of project design.
This is because risk is something that is a threat, therefore choosing risk before it may lower confidence of the implementors or even some risk are so advance that they shut down the project.
Assumptions is always with no evidence therefore it may put one into a confused state .

Share one instance from your organization when a risk or assumption took the team by surprise. What did you learn from this experience?
one time the organization had a plan to carry out a Malaria prevention programme, one of the activity was to distribute mosquito nets. this was to be done during heavy rains, so the season was assumed to be during the month of December, little did we know climate changed, there was no heavy rains that came,hence that affected the project kick off.
I learnt that some assumption should not pre determine your work-ability.

What tips for identifying risks and assumptions can you share with your peers?
It is good first to do a formative research.

To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about
Because it can affect the kick off or the progress of the project

Risk are refrered to actions that you cannot control in a project like girls using the loan they got for material things instead of investing.

Assumptions are things that you believe without verifiable evidence. Like assuming that girls will learn new skills.

@econnect_saurav said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Its important to put yourself in the scenario and think of the events that could happen

@econnect_saurav even with what you have proposed, can we still exhaust all the risk and assumptions attached to a project....therefore risks and assumptions may be on-going concern in project implementation!!!

@xvi said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Risk are refrered to actions that you cannot control in a project like girls using the loan they got for material things instead of investing.

Assumptions are things that you believe without verifiable evidence. Like assuming that girls will learn new skills.

“I really like the way you responded to this prompt @learner1. What did you learn from that experience that could be useful to others taking this course?

@xvi said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Risk are refrered to actions that you cannot control in a project like girls using the loan they got for material things instead of investing.

Assumptions are things that you believe without verifiable evidence. Like assuming that girls will learn new skills.

“I really like the way you responded to this prompt @learner1. What did you learn from that experience that could be useful to others taking this course?

@xvi said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Risk are refrered to actions that you cannot control in a project like girls using the loan they got for material things instead of investing.

Assumptions are things that you believe without verifiable evidence. Like assuming that girls will learn new skills.

“I really like the way you responded to this prompt @xvi . What did you learn from that experience that could be useful to others taking this course? kindly share generously

@DrakuaDanAmooti said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

It's important to identify the culture of your target group.
It's also important to identify the level of education of your target group.
It's also important to understand your capacity and act in accordance to your limits.
There is also need to be able to understand that you will identify some of the risks as you as you run the project

@DrakuaDanAmooti Truthful nuggets to take to heart for a successful project executions

@DrakuaDanAmooti said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

How that was sad actually our project aims to provide quality service for refugees and in one of my experiences we went out to vaccinate young girls tetanus and the community didn't really take the idea because they didn't understand what we were doing fully

@DrakuaDanAmooti What a pathetic frustrating experience ... but note that such project misunderstanding can be resolve through further consultations and dialogue with relevant stakeholders, beneficiaries inclusive!!!

@Umar007 said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

While deciding on risk and assumptions it is important to think about all the negatives that come to mind

@Umar007 That is a good place to start but note that those that spring up in the course of executing the project should also be nip in the bud accordingly......

@gdennar said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Wow....This is mostly the case with rural areas, calm and consistent awareness also helps in changing their minds.

Yes thats true

@ all learners: MEH gave us their assumptions with statements such as: 'Girls might not want to start or upgrade businesses'. But elsewhere I have come across assumption statements written line this: 'Girls will want to start to start or upgrade businesses'.

Can someone help me out. Is there a particular right/correct way to write these?

@Course_Operations said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Respond to this prompt after completing the content in Module 2.

Correctly identifying assumptions and risks ahead of time is one of the most difficult parts of project design.

Share one instance from your organization when a risk or assumption took the team by surprise. What did you learn from this experience? What tips for identifying risks and assumptions can you share with your peers?
We designed a project to build 5, two bed rooms in Namatil district, and we aim to provide housing to 5 households, but since the houses were build only one institution requested to buy houses.

Sample Post: To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about _______ .

one of the risk and Assumption that took us by surprise during one of our project was, one of the stores for medical supplies caught fire and most of the supplies got burnt and yet it was during rainy season and the supplies were already pre-positioned due to difficulties in movement during rainy season.

It is vital to identify risks and assumptions since it helps one to understand events and conditions that are unforeseeable that might affect your project implementation, therefore giving you an ample time to make the right decisions at the right time. And this helps to mitigate adverse impacts that deter any project from achieving its desired objectives.

if we don't find funding , we won't be able to run our programmes and learners will still have challenges of reading and Numeracy. we will still have challenges such as students who lack the understanding of their capabilities.

@Course_Operations said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Respond to this prompt after completing the content in Module 2.

Correctly identifying assumptions and risks ahead of time is one of the most difficult parts of project design.

Share one instance from your organization when a risk or assumption took the team by surprise. What did you learn from this experience? What tips for identifying risks and assumptions can you share with your peers?

Sample Post: To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about _______ .

To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about the Cause and Effect Diagrams. Cause and Effect diagrams are powerful. Project managers can use this simple method to help identify causes–facts that give rise to risks. If we address the causes, we can reduce or eliminate the risks.

To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about the Cause and Effect Diagrams. Cause and Effect diagrams are powerful. Project managers can use this simple method to help identify causes–facts that give rise to risks. If we address the causes, we can reduce or eliminate the risks.

Identifying risks and assumptions at the start of a project design,most a times can always be tricky.I can remember,when we were preparing for the child sponsorship camp.We managed as an organization,to put everything into place,from crafts to volunteers.Then we also had a certain target of volunteers to work with.However,this turned out the reversed way,since only a few of the volunteers showed up.We therefore had to cheap in as staffs to help where necessary.
From this we happened to learn on lesson,we need to fully work on risks and assumptions identification,in order to come to terms with the unforeseeable,that affects the implementation process.

My organization runs a project on sensitization of the public on budget process. While mobilizing ToTs, we assumed that they have been involved in the budget process in their various organizations and are thus having some good level of understanding of the issues. To our surprise, majority of the selected ToTs had not interacted as much with the budget process. As a result, their initial performance was poor and we had to continuously hold sessions to build their capacities further.

Its vital to avoid over anticipating

To identify risks, it is helpful to think about all that might or can go wrong before, during and after the project.

I once volunteered with an organization for a medical outreach. Though I wasn't actively involved with the planning and project design.

We planned to attend to about 200 persons. So we got about 70 pairs of reading glasses and drugs. Low and behold, on the day of the outreach, we had over 1000 already seated, standing at the venue of the outreach waiting to be attended to.

We had to look for ways to make extra provisions for them.

An assumption during one of our outings was that all our equipment were okay and functioning properly. unfortunately by the time we began our sensitization session, we realized the projector was bad and we had to go out to town to get a replacement. Time, energy and Money wasted.

learning point for us was to always check all equipment before embarking on our sensitization project.

Two years ago, when i was working with one NGO in my country we had to sensitize the southern community and do a screening campaign for the community but we didnt take into consideration if the material and equipments we took were going to be enough for the number of people we had in plan to screen. and during the campaign we ran out of syringe, cotton, etc without even reaching our target and we had to call for help in the center for more equipments which took long to arrived in that community making us to stay longer than planned in that village,

@apostledavid58 said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

At that moment there wasn't much that we could do except offer apologies and promises of bringing more supplies. But we learnt from that and made sure that prior to every visit to any location in future before going there for programs implementation, sometimes depending on old data provided by your country's general statistics can prove fatal to the success of your programs implementation

@apostledavid58 This is one of my biggest fears, not having enough materials or supplies. From your experience, though, it sounds like you definitely learned how to mitigate that problem with multitudes of research in the beginning before getting to the implementation stage. This is definitely an eye-opening experience.

@Course_Operations said in Module 2 Discussion: Risks and Assumptions:

Respond to this prompt after completing the content in Module 2.

Correctly identifying assumptions and risks ahead of time is one of the most difficult parts of project design.

Share one instance from your organization when a risk or assumption took the team by surprise. What did you learn from this experience? What tips for identifying risks and assumptions can you share with your peers?

Sample Post: To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about _______ .

To identify risks and assumptions, it is helpful to think about the total impact a project will have on a given area. For example, when we first started planning to build schools in rural communities in Sierra Leone, we had to consider the indigenous organizations and leaders in the areas we were targeting. Without their support, our schools never would have gotten off the ground. Their influence is just as important as the opportunities we are offering. This wasn’t necessarily an assumption that took us by surprise, but could be an important factor to consider when looking at any area where you are looking to build a program. Gaining the support of those the community already trusts to back your project will ultimately help the program’s success.

Identifying risks and assumptions as being difficult or easy ahead of any project design depends on the persons involved and maybe, the kind of project in question. From an M&E perspective, the angle we are all expected to be coming from risks and assumptions typically puts you on track and curtails our personal biases. More so, it makes you feel naturally human to have your personal beliefs about certain issues, situations, and people as the case may be. on a personal level i consider RISKS AND ASSUMPTIONS as being very simple.@BLUESKY