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RAINWATER PROJECT MANAGEMENT
1.0 Introduction
Proper project cycle management is required to promote indigenous rainwater harvesting technology in the ASALs of Kenya Often times, this project cycle is catalyzed by the government, NGOs or external donors by funding demonstration projects. In this article I discuss the key success factors in such community water project management. The project cycle described is based on 5 phases that will be outlined below.
2.0 Project identification phase
Two main things happen during the project identification phase:-
•Need identification
•Stakeholder identification
2.1 The project need
The need for a community water project is identified by a project champion. A project champion can come from the community or from outside the community. The role of the project champion is to originate the project vision.
The project vision has the following 4 components:-
•Where are we now? How serious is the problem of water scarcity is the area?
•Where could we be if we had water? What things could we do if we had water?
•How could we solve the water problem? What facility could we install? How could we finance it?
•How can we ensure we succeed? What are the main risks and issues to be tackled? How can we overcome the risks and get the project going?
2.2 The project stakeholders
The project champion soon realizes that she/he cannot do the project alone. The project champion then seeks to involve the project stakeholders by doing the following things:-
a)Identifying the key stakeholders
In a community water project, these are likely to be the water project end-users, potential labourers, potential project administrators, the relevant government ministries, material suppliers, grant makers and collaborating partners like NGOs.
In particular the project champ should identify representatives of these stakeholders groups and convince them to push the idea together through a formal structure called the project management board (PMB).
b)Once the PMB has been agreed upon, the authority to start the project can be formalized in a document called a project charter.
c)The PMB should meet to discuss how to implement the project. This top-level plan can be formalized in a project execution plan.
d)The PMB may also agree on external consultants who can be used to do project design or supervise the construction. The sum total of all external agents and experts to be used on the project is called the project control board.
e)The project management board should also agree on the project manager who will manage the project on a day to day basis. The project board can then monitor and evaluate the performance of the project manager and report to the project stakeholders. This forms the project M & E plan.
f)The work the consultants will perform and the procedures they will use should be formalized in the project control procedure.
3.0 The project planning phase
The project planning phase is done by the project management board. The project board has to agree on the following 7 issues:-
•Why do we require a rainwater harvesting system?
•What should the system be able to do?
•How well should the system function?
•Who will be served by the system?
•Where will we source the funds to build and operate the system?
•Which methods will be used to assess the success or failure of the system?
•When will the activities agreed upon be done?
4.0 The project execution phase
The project manager is responsible for ensuring the project is implemented as planned or nearly so. The main issues the project manager looks at are:-
(i)Project time management
(ii)Project human resource management
(iii)Project cost management
iv) Project procurement management
5.0 Project closure phase
5.1 The project communication plan
The various project phases must be brought to a conclusion. Three things must be examined at the end of each phase or stage:
•The achievements of the project are assessed. What was achieved as planned? What was planned, but was never achieved? What was achieved but had not been planned?
•What lessons can be learnt from this project experience?
•How do we intend to use the lessons we learnt in future?
5.2 The project information distribution plan
The lessons learnt are distributed to the identified project stakeholders.
5.3 Project contract closure
The project is then formally closed down.
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Germany - Lubeck: Marienkirche - St. Mary's Church, built c1250 - c1350; demolished 29 March 1942; rebuilt 1947-1959.
Built in 1561 through to 1566, the Astronomical Clock is considered to be a real treasure of both art history and sacred history. It was located behind the High Altar in the ambulatory but was completely destroyed in 1942. Only one dial (which had been replaced with an earlier restoration) remains in the St. Annen Museum. The new Astronomical Clock was constructed on the East side of the Northern transept in the "Death dance" chapel. It is the work of Paul Behrens, a clockmaker in Lübeck, who planned it as his lifetime achievement from 1960 - 1967, collected donations for it and constructed the elements of the clock himself. He also maintained the clock until his death. The clockface is a simplified duplicate of the original. With a complicated mechanical system, the clock shows planetary positions, phases of the sun and moon, signs of the zodiac (astronomically, not astrologically), the date on which Easter falls and the Golden Ratio. At 12 o'clock midday the bells ring out and the movement of the figures before Christ consecrating spurs into action. The figures were originally Electors; after post-war reconstruction they are now eight representatives of the different races and peoples of the world.
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Check out Paul Behrens
uploaded the final pages of my Sketchbook Project entry. uploaded the final pages of my Sketchbook Project entry. see the full set at www.flickr.com/photos/alissaduke/sets/72157627623802607/
Knox College students, faculty and staff helping unload a whale skeleton that will be reassembled on campus.
Happy Museum Volunteers with tour guide for the day, Customer Services Manager Mike Dipré.
Find out more about the Happy Museum project here
Check out the entire project at www.mikedicolaphotography.com/project-you/
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January 2013 project. Improving a jungle of a backyard - turning it into a modern tropical oasis in Bondi. Looking forward to the hot tub!
Loki is trying to push open the storm door in hopes to get outside. He sort of looks like a mime doing the box routine.
A small project consisting of setting up a shoot with random passersby and getting them to pull a face.
All participants where informed of the project and asked if they wanted to be a part. To see the rest of the project you can visit cambrils.tumblr.com/
Lighting is provided by a softbox umbrella camera right and a bare strobe for hair light.
obviously cheated a bit.... but i have been wanting to work this one (and too busy, ok lazy, to shoot this week.) So shoot me!
Today was an awesome day. I got to hung out with some awesome friends and we started a sewing project!
See, I'm a huge video game nerd, always have been. I never used to admit it because back in the day it was uncool to be a nerd, and yes, I cosplayed.
Since its been ten years since I last made a pleated skirt my friend and I decided that we should do practice skirts before making the actual skirts for our cosplay. If things work out, I'll be doing a cosplay as Yukiko from Persona 4 for PAX East. :)
This is the practice skirt, well, partly done at least, with Yukiko's fan.
This is a continuation of the current project of an Image a day.
This will take a year to complete. It will be a "Colour Project"....numbered 731 to 1100 and it will begin on September 1st 2022..
I will also include an additional 4 Sets that will last a month each.
First will be Vines and Vineyards in November.2022.
Second is Forests ,,Water, ,Trees and Leaves in February 2023.
Third "Light Eating Objects" in May 2023.
Forth will be another B&W . August 2023.
On top of all that every month will feature a small set of 4 pics with different themes.
As you can see I shall be a busy Bunny!.
Hope you like the stuff!!!!!!!.
At lunchtime I went for a walk to explore my new work neighbourhood. I found part of Thorndon with interesting architecture.
Wednesday, 7th February 2018.
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I did not make these custom HissTanks, I just photographed them. To check out the ongoing art project visit the CanvHISS Project on Facebook!
President Mahinda Rajapaksa inspected the ongoing work at Morana Reservoir and Irrigation Project in Nagadeepa, Mahiyanganaya yesterday (Sep. 10). The President during his visit inquired officials about the work schedule and provided instructions to complete the construction work on schedule, before the end of 2015. This project was initiated to address the drinking water scarcity and issue of water supply for farming in the Uva Province. The project is expected provide direct benefits to over 1200 families in the area.
ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා ඊයේ (සැප්. 10) මහියංගණය නාගදීප ප්රදේශයේ පිහිටි මොරාණ ජලාශ ව්යාපෘතියේ නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවක නිරත විය. මෙහිදී ව්යාපෘතියේ ඉදිරි කටයුතු ගැන ඉංජිනේරුවන්ගෙන් තොරතුරු විමසූ ජනාධිපතිතුමා, ඉදි කිරීම් කටයුතු නියමිත කාල රාමුවට අනුකූලව 2015 වසර අවසාන වීමට පෙර නිම කරන ලෙස උපදෙස් ලබා දුන්නේය. ඌව පළාතේ ජනතාව මුහුණපාන පානීය ජල ගැටලුව සහ කෘෂිකර්මාන්තයේ ජල අවශ්යතාවට විසදුම් සැලසීමට මෙම ව්යාපෘතිය ක්රියාත්මක කර ඇත. මෙම ව්යාපෘතිය මඟින් පවුල් 1200කට වැඩි ප්රමාණයකට ඍජු ප්රතිලාභ සැලැසෙනු ඇත.
மஹியங்கனயவிலுள்ள நாகதீபத்தில் மொரண நீர்த்தேக்க வடிகாலமைப்புச் செயற்திட்டத்தில் நடந்துகொண்டிருக்கும் பணிகளை ஜனாதிபதி ராஜபக்ஷ நேற்றைய தினம் (செப். 10) பார்வையிட்டார். அவரது விஜயத்தின்போது பணிகளின் கால அட்டவணை குறித்து அதிகாரிகளிடம் ஜனாதிபதி கேட்டறிந்துகொண்டதோடு, கால அட்டவணைக்கேற்ப 2015ம் ஆண்டின் முடிவுக்கு முன்னர் கட்டுமானப் பணிகளை நிறைவுசெய்யுமாறு பணிப்புரை விடுத்தார். ஊவா மாகாணத்திலுள்ள குடிநீர்த் தட்டுப்பாடு, விவசாய நிலங்களுக்கான நீர் விநியோகத்திலுள்ள பிரச்சினைகள் ஆகியவற்றினைத் தீர்ப்பதற்காக இந்தச் செயற்திட்டம் முன்னெடுக்கப்பட்டது. இந்தச் செயற்திட்டம் இப்பிரதேசத்திலுள்ள 1,200 குடும்பங்களுக்கு மேலாக நேரடிப் பயனைத் தருமென எதிர்பார்க்கப்படுகிறது.
(Photos by: Chandana Perera)
The flowers in my garden think Spring has arrived already.
Part of a 366 day project
"Just where I am January" all photos in January are taken just where I am, work, home, out shopping no special trips to take a photo.
I'm thinking of putting a few temporary streaks of colour in my hair. I was going to do it in the winter, to brighten up the days. But I might do it for my holiday/birthday trip next week. But it seems all the one-day spray-in ones are fairly pastel.
There was a gorgeous metallic purple one that claims to be temporary but it is a shampoo that lasts for 8 weeks. I don't want my whole head that colour and I'm not sure how it will take on my white hair. It was only $5. I guess I could buy it and try to carefully do only a small bit of my hair.
Thursday, 10th January 2019.
A small project consisting of setting up a shoot with random passersby and getting them to pull a face.
All participants where informed of the project and asked if they wanted to be a part. To see the rest of the project you can visit cambrils.tumblr.com/
Lighting is provided by a softbox umbrella camera right and a bare strobe for hair light.
This is for a project I had for my lighting class where I had to shoot something transparent. It's not exactly transparent, but it is shiny, and that's good enough for me.
Shot with one Profoto light through a softbox on the left. Light is reflected by the pane of glass below and a white board held at an angle above and to the right. There is also a white board underneath the glass.
For the third consecutive year, PCC students created t-shirt designs to draw awareness to the issue of domestic violence as part of "The Clothesline Project." The shirts went on display in front of the college’s Welding Building on Oct. 31 – the final day of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
No. 3 - 5:- Exploring Rochester - High Street
City of Great Expectations - Charles Dickens..
High Street, Rochester
Pips of Rochester
(01634408447),
85 High Street,
Rochester, Kent, ME1 1LX - - (Greengrocers)
Rochester Cameras was established in December 1986 by Les Hayes. He was joined by his son Tony a year later. The business grew and two extra members of staff were needed: John Reeve and Grant Nixon. This website was developed by Lea Hayes. All members of staff have a background in photography and years of experience in the photographic trade.
We carry huge stocks of photographic equipment, telescopes, binoculars, tripods, holdalls, plus digital cameras and accessories. We also specialise in quality used equipment and collectables. www.rochester-cameras.com/Info.aspx?info=1
This is High Street, part of Watling Street.
Watling Street is the name given to an ancient trackway in England and Wales that was first used by the Celts mainly between the modern cities of Canterbury and St Albans. The Romans later paved the route, part of which is identified on the Antonine Itinerary as Iter III: "Item a Londinio ad portum Dubris" - from London to the port of Dover. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon Wæcelinga Stræt, which has come to be understood as the A2 road from Dover to London, and then the A5 road from London to Wroxeter. Originally the word "street" simply meant a paved road (Latin: "via strata"), and did not have the modern association with populated areas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watling_Street
the Roman road from London to Kent coast. Countless travellers have passed this way since Roman times, because it remained the main highway to the Continent until the 20th Century. The High Street formed part of the A2 trunk route up to 1980.
Rochester was an important centre even before the Romans settled here soon after 43A.D. Their encampment developed into a walled town called Durobrivae, which means 'The stronghold by the bridge.' Long stretches of the remaining medieval city wall follow the line of these earliest Roman defences. One part visible from the High Street has survived to its full height, complete with battlements, because it once formed part of the 19th century building - now demolished - which housed Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School.
A Walk around the City of Rochester
To see Large:-
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July 18, 2007 at 12:27 BST
Read my review of this gorgeous doll at Undenial Toy Reviews:
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