EEP Mekong
4th Call for Proposal Information Seminar
Vientiane Lao PDR
16 July 2012
Bounnhang Phengsouvanh
National Technical Expert
Presentation Lay out
• The objectives Purposes
• Concept Note and Development Approach
• Logical Frame Work and Inter-linkage
Development
1: The Objectives and Purposes
The Overall Objectives
• The Participants are able to understand EEP’s
project concept note design, Full Project Proposal
Formulation.
Purposes:
• To support and improve quality of new “Project
Concept Note writing” and “Full Project Proposal
formulation”.
2:Concept Note Idea and Development
Approach
• Project Concept note Understanding
• “UNDERSTANDING” is crucial to everything in Project
Concept note formulation.
• We must be able to “understand” and “explain”.
– The 1 minute explanation: 10 km. view.
– The 5 minute explanation: 1 km. view.
– The half hour explanation: 10 to 100 metres.
• To do this, we must be able to “visualise”:
– we need a 4 D model in our heads.
– We should be able to jump in and out of this.
 10 km view (concept)
 1 km view( full)
10 to 100 metres view 
(Implementation)
PROJECT CONCEPT FORMULATION
• The “project concept” is essentially the rationale
and basic “business” idea of the project.
• There is no “magic formula” for developing the
basic concept. This draws on some of the skills
covered earlier in this workshop but may also
include systematic analysis as well as inspirational
brainstorming of
– problems to be solved to bring benefit, and
– Opportunities to develop something with
benefits: often based on new technology or
other innovations.
• This is a creative process which is generally flexible
and iterative (repeated in cycles).
PROJECT CONCEPT FORMULATION (Continue)
Tools” may help to test and improve the basic
idea and design:
• Problem and situation analysis: problem trees.
• Stakeholder analysis.
• Visioning, scenario planning.
• Cost-benefit analysis.
• Logical framework analysis.
PROJECT CONCEPT FORMULATION (continue)
A “mechanism-based” approach: can help to understand
how the proposed project should work and improve design.
1. The Benefit: What is the benefit and how is it generated
/ produced? How does it contribute to EEP objectives?
2. Distribution of the benefit: Who receives the benefit:
individuals, groups, the community, the sector, men or
women, rural or urban people, poor or rich, etc?
3. “Sustainability”: What benefits / outputs / activities
should be sustained at the end of the project, and how
will they be sustained?
4. “Replicability” (also known as “scaling-up” or “spread”):
How can the benefits / outputs / activities be spread
(what is the mechanism) and how easy would this be?.
5. “Implementability”: Is the project understandable? Do
the proponents have the capacity? Will it work?
3. LOGICAL FRAMEWORK APPROACH
(LFA)
• One way to describe projects is as a series of
connected objectives.
• This “connection” follows the
“cause and effect” logic.
• This provides a “logic model” of what should
happen.
The 4 levels of the “Logframe”:
• “Activities”: the things we do, or actions
implemented.
• “Outputs” (also called “Results”): the products and
services of activities: i.e. the things produced.
These are the “deliverables” of the project
• “Purpose” (also called “immediate objective”): the
combined effects or outcomes of the outputs to be
achieved by the end of the project.
• “Overall objective” (also called “goal”): the overall
long term effects or outcomes to which the project
contributes.
Key points:
• Understanding the change process is the key to
success.
• Construct the internal logic model diagram
which clearly summarises the overall change
process as “activities”  “outputs” 
“purpose”  “overall objective”.
• Develop objective and practical indicators which
work (i.e. assess the change) from the sound
understanding of the change processes in the
internal logic model.
INDICATORS
• The internal logic model diagram gives us a
“Results Chain”.
• We need to achieve each box or “result”.
• To know how well we are progressing in
achieving each result, we need “indicators” (for
each box).
• Develop “indicators” is the second major task in
development of the full logframe.
Indicators continue…
Definition of an indicator:
• “a quantitative or qualitative variable that allows
stakeholders to verify the changes produced by a
development intervention relative to what was
planned”.
• A “key indicator” is an indicator for a logframe
output, purpose or overall objective.
Purpose of an indicator:
• To show if and how much change has occurred:
– may not necessarily explain the change.
Completion of the “Logframe Table” and
the “key indicator definition table”
• A complete Logframe is usually presented in a
table or matrix format with:
– Project Description: the hierarchy of objectives.
– Indicators: “objectively verifiable indicators”.
– Source of verification: where the date for the
indicators will come from.
– Important Risks / Assumptions: external factors
which could affect the success of the project: the
“external logic”.
Example of internal logic model:
Use of the logframe:
As ideas take shape, the log-frame should be
constructed in stages as outlined earlier:
• Develop the internal logic model using the
diagram to visualise this.
• Once the internal logic has been developed,,
develop the main key indicators and draft targets,
identify the most important assumptions / risks
and compile the draft log frame table.
Use this to help, prepare the “Project Concept /
Proposal Form” for submission to EEP.
Exercises –as Example
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Expression ( sentence)
Training of village community organisers.
Community based organisation established
and operational.
Micro-hydro stations fully and sustainably
operational .
Biogas entrepreneurs trained.
Business plan developed.
Greenhouse gases reduced.
Meetings with local businesses.
Awareness raising campaigns.
Improved environment.
Improved income and living standards.
Survey and selection of micro-hydro site.
Objective/Out
put/Activities
Activity
Output?
Objectives/purp
Activity/output
/output
Objectives
Activity
Activity
OveralObjective
Overal Objective
Activity
Example: Continue
Objective
Purpose: Pilot farm biogas
digester construction and
financing model developed
and proved, with associated
benefits.
Output 2: Biogas digester
construction teams trained,
organised and operational.
Existing Indicators
 Within 18 months 10 digesters
will be in operation.
 ± 100 jobs will have been
created.
 Business model will be in place
for roll-out of the technology.
 Construction can and will
continue after finalizing the 10
farms under this EEP project
based on the business model
framework developed within this
project.
Comments and improved inds
 OK: need to define
“operation”.
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In total the project aims at
training of 30 people on several
levels, and construction teams
are lined up
Expected positions are a
technician at the provincial and
district level, mason supervisors,
mason teams, unskilled labourers
(for construction) and farmers.
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OK.
OK.
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NO, Drop this. Not well
defined and applies more to
the overall objective.
Notes:
 Indicators cover the main
elements of the purpose.
No of M/F trained for the
different levels: labourers,
masons, supervisors.
 No of teams established.
Notes:
 Need to word as Indicators.
Thank You