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Risks and assumptions are subject to be identified clearly and carefully during the project formulations phases and if additional potential risks are expected during the feasibility study, it is modifiable.

The risks and assumptions of a logical framework lists all the elements that could disrupt our plan. For each level of your logical framework – inputs, outputs, outcomes and impact – we ask ourselves: what could go wrong? Is there anything that would prevent us from providing the inputs? And, if we provide the inputs, are we sure that it will lead to the outputs?

Risks and assumptions :are external factors over which the project has little control, but which may impact project activities and results. The factors are often connected to events, contexts, and/or community beliefs. Identifying risks and assumptions helps an organization prepare for potential challenges in meeting the program goal as well as determining if a program redesign would be beneficial. For example, if an assumption highlights that a community may be unwilling to accept the activity, it may be necessary to redesign the program or first add additional activities that will build community support.

The risks and assumptions of a logical framework lists all the elements that could disrupt our plan. For each level of your logical framework – inputs, outputs, outcomes and impact – we ask ourselves: what could go wrong? Is there anything that would prevent us from providing the inputs? And, if we provide the inputs, are we sure that it will lead to the outputs?

Risks and assumptions :are external factors over which the project has little control, but which may impact project activities and results. The factors are often connected to events, contexts, and/or community beliefs. Identifying risks and assumptions helps an organization prepare for potential challenges in meeting the program goal as well as determining if a program redesign would be beneficial. For example, if an assumption highlights that a community may be unwilling to accept the activity, it may be necessary to redesign the program or first add additional activities that will build community support.
Data management is the practice of ingesting, processing, securing and storing an organization’s data, where it is then utilized for strategic decision-making to improve business outcome

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

Les risques et hypothèses sont générés dans le sens de faire ressortir les interrogations sur un projet; Dans le pis le but d'"éviter un échec du ^~projet~~.

Before taking this course, I never heard about the terms Risks ans Assumption in an M&E. This Module 2 on "Risks and Assumptions" was very helpful for me in the way that it gave me an idea of what may be the concrete examples of risks and assumptions that may hamper the smooth running of a project. And that these risks ans assumptions could not be ignored if we want to each our goals.

The risks and assumptions of a logical framework lists all the elements that could disrupt our plan. For each level of your logical framework – inputs, outputs, outcomes and impact – we ask ourselves: what could go wrong? Is there anything that would prevent us from providing the inputs? And, if we provide the inputs, are we sure that it will lead to the outputs?

These are negative things that we think might affect/ come up during the the project

The Risks and Assumptions column is the fourth column of the logical framework. The assumptions describe the situations, events, conditions or decisions
• Risks
Factors outside of your control that could cause your project to go poorly. Examples include:
• participants may not be able to get to the workshop
• funds intended for the project may be taken by government officials
• Assumptions
Things that you believe but that are not supported by evidence. Examples include:
• participants will be allowed to join this activity
• participants who have learned financial skills will want to save money

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

It is important to plan for risks and assumptions ahead of time so that
you can understand events and conditions that are unforeseeable
that might affect your implementation, therefore giving you enough time to make
decisions at the right time.

This model was very interesting and meaning full

Yes this model was very interesting and meaning full

We are always limited by assumptions that we make even though they are in good faith. We want the project to work and so we make these assumptions in the hopes that it will turn out as we want. But researching for evidence is important. I think Nope's approach of checking with the community for risks and assumptions then adjusting the project activities is very effective.

Is it okay to ask beneficiaries on some of the limiting factors and consider those risks?

Is it okay to ask beneficiaries on some of the limiting factors and consider those risks?

These are negative things that we think might affect/ come up during the the project implementation

These are negative things that we think might affect/ come up during the the project implementation

yes, it can as long as you know the short and long term goals of your project

Je Prends un exemple banale de risques et d'hypothèses. Je peux investir mais, perdre, cela est un risque. Ma perte est dûe au faite que mon investissement était mal canalisé. Si j'avais bien canalisé l'investissement, je n'allais pas perdre, cela est une hypothèse.

Parlant de l'exemple de la création du projet pour décrocher un nouvel emploi. J'aimerais savoir les risques et hypothèses de ce projet.

So far, I learned how important it is to identify risks and assumptions during the planning phase.

It is important to identify risks and assumptions before project initiation

Project risks and assumptions should be detected/identified before project initiation to prevent any barrier during execution process. To do this, the individual or project organization take into consideration the following factors; culture of people, stakeholder engagement, project adoption process, sustainability (social, economic and environment)

Risks are uncertainty that may or may not occur during different stages of your project. For example if you’re managing project about food security missing rain can be big blow to your plan and project on the other hand assumptions is your own biases judgment or beliefs about something that you have no evidence to support for example you may assume that your project will nt succeed in certain area although you never tested your assumptions

As per my understanding, I would like to say that An assumption is a statement that you assume to be true. Without assuming certain things planning would be impossible, as we never know for certain how the future will look like, whereas on the other hand A risk is an assumption with a higher level of failure. It is an event that could happen with a notable probability and could affect the outcome of your project substantially.

I think it is important to identify risks and assumptions before beginning a project. This way, our own biases can get out of the way when trying to create an effective project and to improve its implementation.

I agree with you

I think this is a great explanation!

Risk and assumptions are possible obstructions that will prevent you from achieving the desire output. Even though it negative in some way it actually help the project to achieve the desired out .This assist know the potential obstacles that are out of our control. Knowing the obstacles will immersively help help the project design. The risk and assumptions are usually questions that monitoring and evaluation expert ask stakeholders and beneficiaries to make an informed decision about the project.

There are always risks and assumptions to any activity, I think a way to handle those issues is to plan ahead. A conscious and reflective thinking could help a lot for that purpose, and also if you have on hand other examples of risks and assumptions related with your project.

There are always risks and assumptions to any activity, I think a way to handle those issues is to plan ahead. A conscious and reflective thinking could help a lot for that purpose, and also if you have on hand other examples of risks and assumptions related with your project.

The external positive factors which will affect our project positively, it is called Assumptions.
Then external negative factors which will affect our project negatively, it is called Risks.

Risks are the things that happen during the entire project and are out of the expert's control, they are issues that might arise and affect the project negatively. Risks if planned well allows the project to flow progressively with minimal problems.
Assumptions are the biases that arise during the study or rather the project, they are based on zero evidence.

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

I really liked the idea of idetifying risks and assumptions at the begining , which will help us to take the consideration during the project implementation phase. I was not aware that those assumptions should be linked with an evidence (research findings or leasons from other projects).

Risks and assumptions are events are out of control of the exports

En quoi les risques et hypothèses peuvent-ils entraver le bon fonctionnement d'un projet ?

risk and assumptions must be careful analysed to ensure we have good conditions to implement the project

In Risk and Assumption, is it always good to have a positive risk or Assumption?

The assumptions explain the circumstances, occurrences, conditions, or choices necessary for the project's success but that are mainly or entirely outside the management team's control. Events that could negatively affect the project are referred to as risks.

Putting Risks and assumption will help us to manage the external factors that will impact our project and put a remedial measures

i think this module discussion is really helpful

Risk are the factors that might make the project fail that we have no control over.
Assumptions are thongs we believe about the project that are not supported by any data.
Its important to know the risk and assumption before the project start to be able to reduce the risk and also make better decisions

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. And, It is the good to me for the learning of new things from this course. Thank you.

Identifying risks and assumptions is key to avoid being caught unaware. It helps prepare for any unforeseen factors in a project

Risks are factors that are out of your control and have the potential to interrupt your project activities, outcomes and ultimate goal/result. Assumptions are beliefs unsupported by evidence, hence are subjective and biased.

unrealistic target are those not achievable because they are not guided by the baseline or any prior information

Les risques et hypothèses L’identification des risques et hypothèses permet d’évaluer si les objectifs et les activités proposés sont réalistes et réalisables dans un laps de temps donné et à l’appui des ressources humaines et financières en présence.

The assumptions describe the situations, events, conditions or decisions which are necessary for the success of the project, but which are largely or completely beyond the control of the project's management. Risks are events that may have a negative impact on the project. The Risks and Assumptions are very important in the design phase of monitoring and evaluation

Interesting module

Once data is gathered and analyzed, it must be reported to the relevant members as regularly as possible to discuss and interpret findings.
The intention of reporting should always be to provide clarity on the most up-to-date results to staff members and stakeholders about the progress, success, and failure of the project to help them make data-driven decisions for modifications of project components and to develop future work plans as necessary.
Also, data must be reported so that it can increase knowledge and make contributions to the related field for future projects and practices to be more effective.

Risks are external factors that can hinder the project objective from being achieved while assumptions are beliefs that has no evidence that is thay are not fact.

risk can arise from any part of the project whether from the input stage or the imapct stage.

Risks are uncertainties that may hinder the progress of the the project or disrupt the goal of the project from being achieved. These uncertainties can arise or be considered at any point are crucial to achieving the objective.
Assumptions are usually the beliefs of people about the project outcome not supported by facts

Identifying risks and assumptions is a key part in project design? What do you all think!

Every project will always have risks, identifying the risks and finding solutions beforehand helps the project to develop good a contingency plan

Recording of risks is an important part of the project plan

There is the need to thoroughly explore, identify and examine all risks and assumptions in the early stages of project design.

Identifying risks and assumptions is very necessary and will help overcome possible recurring frustration due to inability to achieve expected outcomes which subsequently will lead to the success of project goal

Does each level/ step of logframe (impact, activities, outcomes) necessarily require risks and assumptions to ensure a successful project design?

The Risks and Assumptions column is the fourth column of the logical framework. The assumptions describe the situations, events, conditions or decisions which are necessary for the success of the project, but which are largely or completely beyond the control of the project's management. Risks are events that may have a negative impact on the project.

Risks and Assumptions explore extensively Dr Edward de Bono's black thinking hat. It is a powerful tool for project implementation because of its proactive nature. I have learned from NOPE that risks and assumptions will help one to understand events and conditions that are unforeseeable and might affect implementation. Therefore, it gives time to make decisions at the right time.

Les risques et les hypothèses sont des éléments qui interviennent dans votre projet indépendamment de votre volonté

It’s interesting to realize that much of your projects are based on risks and assumptions that we might not have control of. In this context of uncertainties, planning what we can is even more important to minimize risks and guarantee that our projects will have enough solid bases to go forward.

Risk And Assumptions Are Keys to project design which help you identify the possibilities of what will fail your project

For the success of a project, it is important to work out the potential risks and assumptions at the project design level. There are some elements and situations which are out of control but prior work can enable us to mitigate the effects of such situations.

Risks and Assumptions are possible assumption that can validate the exitance of the project. And risks are those factors that can affect the success of the project.

Risks and Assumptions are external factors over which project has little control, but which may impact project results.
for example looking at MEH project
Girls might not want to start or upgrade businesses or girls might be discouraged from starting or upgrading businesses by their family or culture and or girls might not know how to start or upgrade businesses.

My project title is Improvement of Cassava Production and Returns
and the goal is to maximize cassava production and profit of Tukombo EPA cassava farmers in order to improve their economic well-being.
Below are the risk and assumptions under impact
No natural calamities in the locality that affect the enterprises
No theft in the community
No major change in the Government policies that govern the NGO operations and rural markets.

In preparing monitoring and evaluation, are assumptions and risks important?

i agree with you

est ce qu'on peut formuler des hypothèses négatives

In a project management language, an assumption is an “event” with a probability of over 50%. If the probability of the event is also less than 100%, it is a risk!!!

An assumption is something that you assume to be the case, even without proof.

While there is a clear relationship between assumptions and risks, they have different point of view:

If the risk event happens then, the project is affected.
If the assumption event doesn’t happen, then the project is affected.

Risks are important to decide if the project can take place or if it should be postponed or even canceled.
assumptions are important even if the probability for them to happen is low it help us to stay safe and minimize the responsibility in case of failure.

Yes. that was great

That was great

I cannot see the topic of the discussion, but I would like to share something about "risks and assumptions." During the pandemic, most offline activities are disrupted, and online activities are more common as a replacement. For my most recent project, I'm considering how to sustain the programme effectiveness of one education project through an online platform (Hong Kong is still affected by the pandemic). Some classroom activities are still canceled). Some colleagues argued that it was impossible to achieve the same results via an online platform. Definitely, it is not true and depends on how we use the online platform. We take a reference from LinkedIn (e-cert). We allowed the participants to join the second-level programme if they passed the first. If they can pass the second level, the learning activities can become part of the extracurricular activity hours that are required by the schools in Hong Kong.

Risks are things out of your control, where as assumptions are things you believe without evidence.

Risks and assumptions will always be present. How do we set the threshold for acceptable levels?

This is a good way of contrasting these two terms.

Do risks have to be particularly in line with the summary

What do we understand with Risks and assumptions? And how could we avoid the risks?

• We define RISKS as everything outside your control that might block our project.

• ASSUMPTIONS are everything that we believe without support of the evidences.

• By the definition, it is impossible avoiding risks,but we can avoid high risks level by planning careful our activities ou designing intelligently our logframe/logical framework.

risk assumptions includes determining the likelihood that a vulnerability, threat, or occurrence could impact the organization and what the consequences or impact would be if it were to occur.

Glad about this module. I believe it's very helpful to think thoroughly about. the riska dn assumptions to help prepare for or mitigate them.

Yes, same for me. I think it's beneficial linking to evidence and/or other projects. It seems to make it more grounded

The module is coming along well. Even though it is a bit tough

This is an important aspect of project design and I believe you can not mention all of them. Hence, I think is important to factor in unforeseen circumstances in your plan.

I have learnt that skills are thin gs that are out of my control that can disrupt my project while assumptions are biases or things that i believe without much evidence in regards to the project at hand. Risks and assumptions should be well pointed out before the start of the project so that one can have an idea of the risks to expect during the projects progress.

In my experience, teams are not fully aware of the importance of unpacking assumptions and the factors we face in the outer / external world and that are paramount on the success of our projects. For the last years, we´ve deployed some efforts in spotting critically our own assumptions during the design and planning phase. We count on peer-exchanges and expert partners use their critical thinking to challenge our own assumptions. For that purpose, while identifying assumptions we get use to identify what are the pre-conditions and factors will be essential and must be realised in place before our intervention will be started. That way, teams have better understood the connection and positive implications of unpacking assumptions.

I have learnt that skills are thin gs that are out of my control that can disrupt my project while assumptions are biases or things that i believe without much evidence in regards to the project at hand. Risks and assumptions should be well pointed out before the start of the project so that one can have an idea of the risks to expect during the projects progress. I have learnt that setting unrealistic targets such as ones that are over ambitious or too low might go ahead and jeopardize the outcome and impact of the project. I have learnt about the various ways to collect data and how to draft a participant tracking form.

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Risks and Assumptions are importants in a way that you give your project opportunity to predict some of the future situation that you might pass through. Analysing each and every step related to risks and assumption prepares you before the bad happens and also gives you some tips that you shoud look at during the monitoring or evaluation process.
Important to know that the risks as well as assumption compromise in a negative way your project, and for the risks is better to know then anti-handheld, and for the assumptions is better to find some evidences that prove it.

Hello
So far, I understand that identification of Risks and Assumptions can come both from the design team and implementation team and from the people participating/beneficiaries in the project, but also from donors and other stakeholders.

in risk and assumptions column of logframe we should list all the things that could disrupt our plan. we should fill it for each level, for inputs, outputs, outcomes and impacts.

Identifying risks and assumptions serves to assess whether the Goals and Activities proposed are realistic and achievable in the given time frame and within the given available human and financial resources.
In this context, a risk is defined as an uncertain threat that, in case of occurring, could have a negative impact in the completion of the Goal or Activity. An assumption, on the other side, is the necessary condition that will enable the successful completion of the Goal or Activity. In order to avoid repetition and redundancy, risks and assumptions should be defined at two levels: general and specific level.

General risks and assumptions can be either related to the overall implementation of the roadmap or common to all Goals included in the roadmap. Specific risks and assumptions will be related to a concrete Activity, i.e. a particular risk that could hinder the successful implementation of a concrete Activity or an assumption that is key to the implementation of a specific Activity. For instance, a specific assumption for the Activity "establishing an Authorized Economic Operators Scheme" is that incentives granted to AEOs are enough to motivate private traders to invest in the time and resources to get the certification.

If described negatively, an assumption can become a risk. On the contrary, if defined in positive terms, a risk can be transformed into an assumption. Thus, it is very important to pay attention to redundancy.
Assumptions that were considered in the form of risks do not need to be noted again and vice-versa. Similarly, risks and assumptions that were defined at general level, do not need to be mentioned again at specific level. If resistance to change is a major risk for the overall completion of the Roadmap's Goals, it would be also risk for the different Activities considered.

Risk are things that could occur which one have no influence on and assumption are things that are most likely to happen if the required is not met.
One who impact knowledge on others but can definitely not force the utilization of such knowledge as such, this becomes a risk that can harm the actualization of the desired goal and assumption is pre-meditating "what if*
This would guide one to plan towards avoiding or proffering solutions if need be

Identifying risks and assumptions serves to assess whether the Goals and Activities proposed are realistic and achievable in the given time frame and within the given available human and financial resources.

Assumptions identified during design phase, if haven't an high probability to be true, orto have evidences or passed experience that support the proposed activities, it require to open a deep discussion on the start of project implementation. In fact, if assumption are not strong and realistic, apart not convincing the donors put in risk the achievement of the expected results, with consequent waste of money, energy and particularly loose the beneficiaries' trust.