Project Design and Management
Code
722041095
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Geografia e Planeamento Regional
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To analyse the methodologial basis of the private and public investments.
b) To deliver the knowledge on the projects´profitability analysis.
c) To learn the fondamentals of Cost-Benefit Anaysis (CBA).
d) To think over the evaluation’ methodologies and criteria of the EU Cohesion Policy.
e) To endow students with competences on projects´ socioeconomic evaluation.
f) To pass on competences on the evaluation of public policies and on regional/local development.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1) Private and social project evaluation.
2) Financial evaluation: Net Actual Value and Internal Rate of Return.
3) Economic and social evaluation. Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA).
4) The World Bank methodology.
5) Evaluation of natural resources assets and management.
6) Input-Output analysis for projects´ impact evaluation and regionalisation.
7) EU territorial development programs and projects´ evaluation.
Bibliography
Bachtler, J. & Wren, C. (Eds., 2006). Regional Studies. Special Issue on \"The Evaluation of EU Cohesion Policy, 40.
DG REGIO (2013). EVALSED: The Resource for the Evaluation of Socio-Economic Development. Brussels: European Commission.
Pearce, D.W. & Nash, C.A. (1990). The Social Appraisal of Projects. A Text on Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA). Working paper.
Behrens, W. & Hawranek, P.M.(1991). Manual for the preparation of Industrial Feasibility Studies. Vienne: UNIDO.
UNIDO (1992). Manual for Evaluation of Industrail Projects. New York.
Teaching method
Expositive and participative teaching; discussion of case-studies; field work.
Evaluation method
Written essay with oral presentation,followed by open discussion (40% of the final grade).
Written test (60% of the final grade).
[According to the FCSH Assessment Standards, the proposed evaluation elements to introduce students in the first class may suffer readjustments, particularly in the percentage of each element.]