Project Cycle Management Handbook

European Commission

2002

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This handbook complements the PCM manual1 published in March 2001. While the manual spells out the PCM principles, the handbook provides hands-on practical advice on the phases of the cycle. Sector programmes and sector-wide approaches (SWAP) are also considered in this handbook, but the handbook’s main focus is on project and programme cycle management. It is thus neither a handbook on SWAP for e.g. health or education, nor a handbook on budget support programmes which are under preparation by the competent unit within the EC. This handbook is neither a procedures manual nor does it address policy issues par-ticular to the RELEX DGs. It presents PCM principles. As there are differences be-tween EC aid programmes in how issues are dealt with, the practice of the PCM methods will have to be modified to suit the particular circumstances of the operat-ing environment. However, it complements the PCM manual by providing more de-tailed guidance on how to use the techniques and tools presented there. [Introduction]

Manejo de proyectos; Project Cycle Management (PCM);