Recent Capacity Building Programmes

Project Appraisal Consultants have conducted fourteen capacity building programmes on 'Project Appraisal, Risk Analysis and Risk Management' at India International Centre, New Delhi 110003 as follows


  • First programme – 10th to 14th February 2014
  • Second programme – 3rd to 7th March 2014
  • Third programme- 03rd to 05th December 2014
  • Fourth Programme: 02nd to 05th February 2015
  • Fifth Programme: 02nd to 05th October 2015
  • Sixth Programme: 1st to 4th February 2016
  • Seventh Programme: 17th to 20th October 2016
  • Eighth Programme: 1st to 04th February 2017
  • Ninth Programme: 10th to 13th October 2017
  • Tenth Programme: 12th to 15th February 2018
  • Eleventh Programme: 10th to 13th September 2018
  • Twelevth Programme: 04th to 07th March 2019
  • Thirteen Programme 16th to 18th October 2019
  • Fourteen Programme 4th to 6th February 2020

Contents of Programmes



  • Classification of costs, accrual & cash forms of accounting
  • Preparation of pro forma cash flow statements from different perspectives such as owners, Lenders, Government Budget and Economy
  • Opportunity cost of public funds, WACC
  • Different investment criteria [ Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, Benefit Cost Ratio, Payback Period, Cost Effective Methods]
  • Distributive/Social appraisal
  • Effects of Inflation on project viability
  • Incremental/Scale analysis
  • Optimum time to start and close a project
  • What is Quantitative Risk Analysis?
  • Risk premium and its estimation.
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Scenario analysis
  • Monte Carlo simulation and analysis of project returns (NPV, IRR)
  • What are Risk Management options?
  • How to reduce project return variability?

Participation :


These programmes have received excellent response and were attended by middle/senior level officers of State Governments, Central and State Public Sector organizations. A total of 451 persons from 77 organizations participated in these programmes.



Comments of Participants:


The programmes received excellent grading/comments from the participants. Some are reproduced below:

 

“It was well structured course and faculty was very enthusiastic and interested in imparting knowledge to participants….”

“A unique concise training programme which gives hands on experience of project appraisal, sensitivity analysis and risk analysis. The course is a must for all persons who do project appraisal and who have to make decisions on projects.”

“Faculty for the programmes is fantastic and they have put in tremendous efforts”.


“As an engineer, I strongly recommend that course is most suitable for all the engineers involved in project evaluation. I am enlighted by this programme”   …..  Harinath A.V.


“In such a short period, what I learned is more than sufficient”.


“Dedicated resource persons. Very well organized programme.”


“More practical sessions may be conducted for Monte Carlo Simulation”.


“The course provided an excellent awareness about importance of project appraisal in public and private investment”.


Excellent, obtained good perspective on project appraisal. Facilitated good interaction and exchange of views, experiences of participants which has benefitted much. Recommended to those in the Project/Finance division of organization/industries…………..A Sreedharan.


This programme is a must for every manager who is involved in Project Appraisal.

Programme is well chalked out and has given a good exposure and overview of different aspects of project appraisal. It will definitely help in general administration and decision making. Most importantly we are highly impressed with your temprament and ability to help and motivate us……..Uma Shankar PCS


Very informative and eye-opened. How to really appraise the projects with different kind of tools? Really in depth –Tarun Bajaj


Its an excellent programme designed for project appraisal and the faculty are also very enthusiastic in explaining the things very nicely. Its is very beneficial for all sector of officers who deal with project both engineering sector and financial sector. The overall programme is excellent…. KVS Jogarao


It was a good learning experience. The course on Risk Analysis was very useful. The learning from this programme may be able to interpret correcting in the project.
“Excellent in all respect” … A K Bose


Programme gives an overview of the basic concepts like NPV, IRR B/C Ratio, Sensitivity Analysis, Scenario Analysis and Risk Analysis starting from the fundamentals concepts, programme builds on to teach the Risk Analysis and Risk management. Equally important for freshers as well as professionals from PSU’s banks and government. The analysts from private sector or consultants can also gain from the programme…. Amit Talwar


It’s extremely useful programme to assess the viability of projects. Being in Government Sector, I am sure now i will be able to assess the projects properly…Sidharth Srivastava


Case exercises are very helpful in understanding the concepts and its applications. A result oriented programme.


Very good and compact course covering reality.

The programme is thought provoking and has immensely helped in analysis and how to approach it. Civil servants must learn these skills as we deal with plenty of public money and that too without undergoing or doing rigorous investment analysis.


This programme is very useful. One should have knowledge of Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Projects.


Very usefull programme for decision makers to minimize the role of return or investment.


Professionaly designed & efficiently executed programme. Faculty support is good and very technical things have been explained in a simple ways.


It has been felt that the programme is very innovate and covers new areas.


We are grateful for conducting such an useful and informative programme. Faculty makes the programme an excellent one as every session has been simplified making it very easy for the participants to grab the basic idea. Monte carlo simulation software is very easy to use and understand….S Geetmala


This is programme is well structured with different perspectives. The course materials shared with the participants are self explanatory and easy to recall even after a gap after the programme. This level of elaborated teaching materials is appreciable.


The programme is very useful for all projects leaders, who initiates and handle projects.Such programmes are really useful and shall be conducted periodically/ regularly to expose the officers (mid level) to the real world of project appraisal and decision making.


An inspiring training programme for aspiring officials-decision making tools are retold effectively.


The programme was nicely planned and organized. Topics delivered, hand outs delivered and the way it were taught was very effective, useful and relevant to our profession. The learned concepts have enriched my financial appraisal understanding and are expected to be reflected in the professional delivery of service in my organization.


The programme is excellent for working professionals of all fields like private, public and govt participated can understand to decide the fate of the projects.


It is a good programme and must attend for any person who is doing project appraisal, risk analysis, risk identification and mitigation, irrespective if you are beginner in the field or experienced person.


Completely enlighting programme. A must for public servant in project preparation or evaluation.


The programme was excellent, quite knowledgeable and the subjects taught is very much useful in project management.


Dear Sir, I am very glad by attending that PAC programme. This training is very usefull in our official dealings. Now we understand the risk analysis & its management part well. Sir, you have very nice way of teaching (humble, gentle and caring) too. We have gone through many practical examples for government sector dealings & how to work them. At the end its “worthfull learning”…..Pawan kumari-IIFCL

Well Managed, this should be learnt by each executive of company executing project. This appraisal programme should be conducted at IICM, Ranchi involving CMPDI and officer preparing projects reports which will be beneficial for coal india Ltd-CIL


I have a biology background and numbers are not my strong point. But the classes/materials/lectures have been quite comprehensible much to my delight and surprise because of the way with which simplicity has been the centre point of the entire course. The basics/fundamentals have extensively dealt with and lastly.


The programme is eye opener for all decision makers who should know the impact of all external/internal factor on project appraisal/ performance. How to take mitigation measures in time to do the project appraisal. This programme is very much helpful…Anil Jain


Very informative, relevant and a must for anybody who is either a planner, a approver, a banker, a owner, a trainer, i.e. all kind of stake holders. Nicely explained and made to understand even for a person having bare minimum exposure. All the best for future endeavor in spreading this concept/knowledge of project appraisal.


A very nicely deisgned training programme covering A to z of financial analysis in relation to investment appraisal and various tools of risk analysis for better manangement of risk in project implementation.


The programme was really very good and this must be attended by the representatives from all govt /semi govt organizations. Rather it should be compulsory keeping view of the delay in almost all projects taken by the govt organizations. Every participants should be given small case for submission of appraised project without any help from the faculty.


"The course provided an excellent awareness about importance of project appraisal in public and private investment".


 

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