Past and future of Project Cycle Management
Little more than visual effects and sparkling technology? In a policy brief, NADEL's Kimon Schneider questions the trend of alternative approaches to Project Cycle Management.
Many practitioners find standard project cycle management (PCM) instruments, and particularly the logframe, to be donor-driven, bureaucratic and static. Development organisations have increasingly searched for alternatives. In a policy brief, NADEL’s Kimon Schneider questions this trend, arguing that the crux of good PCM lies in how the instruments are used, rather than the instruments themselves. The focus should not be on further multiplying instruments, but investing more in transferable skills of practitioners such as thinking in an interdisciplinary way and acting adaptively, enabling them to use any instruments in a given context.