Is Your Project Answering the Wro...

Is Your Project Answering the Wrong Question? With Kavita Desai

Project Design: The Good, The Bad and the Wild by Danielle Wilkins

Episode notes

"Organizations think they're answering the question, but they're not really answering the question." This episode explores why- and what to do about it!

In this inaugural episode of Project Design: The Good, The Bad and The Wild, host Danielle Wilkins sits down with guest Kavita Desai to discuss what she has learned over her 18 years leading business development and proposal design for organizations like Palladium Group and Abt Global, including the costly mistakes teams make when designing multi-sector programs under pressure, and a success case in a complex multi-sector program in East Africa that integrated economic growth, nutrition, WASH and community development.

In this episode:

  • The stakeholder engagement strategy that prevents missing critical perspectives
  • How to bound your work when four te ... 
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Keywords
Project DesignInternational DevelopmentSocial ImpactProgram ManagementTheory of ChangeStakeholder EngagementNon-Profit ManagementProject PlanningDevelopment ProgramsImpact Measurement