Management and Evaluation of Social Programs and Projects

Recommended Prerequisites

This Course Unit is transverse to every other curricular units of the first and second semester of the 1st year of the Masters.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Method:
Oral exposition / information of theoretical and practical contents by the teacher;
Analysis and debate about texts and documents;
Presentation of professional narratives  with special emphasis on student participation;
Group work, presentation and plenary discussion of various topics on the Course Unit
Evaluation Methods:
- Conception of a scientific article related to the course themes

- Group Work with a construction of a social project

Learning Outcomes

Global Objectives:

Within the framework of theoretical and practical skills aims to:
1.1. To promote a holistic vision of the principles inherent in strategic rationality of social projects.

1.2. To discuss and questioning the processes involved in the design, management, negotiation and evaluation of programs and social projects both as a result of a social learning process or as a form of innovation, intervention and of social entrepreneurship.

1.3. To develop, identify and reflect on various elements, phases, stages and contents, constituting the cycle of planning, design, management and evaluation of programs and social projects as well as empirical instruments hat may be used in each of it phases.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

At the end of the Master's course unit the student should thus be able to:
- Understand the logical steps and requirements for design, implement and evaluate programs and social projects;
- Reflect and consider the dynamics and mechanisms for developing innovative proposals for social interventions;
- Promote social entrepreneurship initiatives, refining not only the essential operational knowledge, but also a prospective thinking, complex and problematizing.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Module I. Introduction - Practical Module
The questions and terminological precisions:
      a) What is a Project?
      c) Intervention analysis and definition of a plan:
      1. Development and creation Projects
      2. Application to Fund Programmers’
      3. Mixed
Module II Paradigms and Social Management
1. Terminological precision and sources of connection and disconnection: Plan, Program and Project Management
2. The rationality of political, economic and social context as a factor for understanding  Social Programs and Projects.
3. Paradigms of conception and Social Management Project
3. Module III - Design and  Management of a Social Project
 Constituent Elements in the Process of Planning, Design and Evaluation of Social Projects:
      1.1. The resources in the Project Design
      1.2. Theoretical Methods and Techniques-operatives
      1.3. The management of the Project
Module IV. Financial Management and Business Plan
Module V - Evaluation Processes and Procedures
      1. Types and Modalities
      2. Instruments and Procedures
      3. Reporting evaluation: Practical Examples

Head Lecturer(s)

Clara Maria Rodrigues Cruz Silva Santos

Assessment Methods

Evaluation
Conception of a scientific article related to the course themes: 50.0%
Group Work with a construction of a social project: 50.0%

Bibliography

Barbier, Jean-Marie (1996) Elaboração de Projectos de Acção e Planificação. Porto: Porto Editora.

Barreira, Maria Cecília RN(2000), Avaliação participativa de programas sociais. São Paulo, Lisboa: Veras Editora, CPIHTS (p. 29 a 56 e 57 a 91).

Comissão Europeia, DG Emprego e Assuntos Sociai (2002) L’analyse des impacts sociaux des iniciatives de la Comission.

Guerra, Isabel (2002) Fundamentos e Processos para uma Sociologia de Acção: O planeamento em Ciências Sociais: Lisboa: Principia

Monteiro, Alcides (1996) A avaliação nos projectos de Intervenção Social: Reflexões a partir de uma prática in Sociologia: Problemas e Práticas, nº 22, pp 137-154.

Santos; C; Albuquerque; C & Almeida, N (2012);  The process of financing social entrepreneurship projects in Portugal: Tensions between normative discourse and procedural acting in H. ACRN Conference on Social Entrepreneurial Perspectives, August 26th to 27t. Lindzt, Austria.

Schiefer, Ulrich; Bal-Dobel, Lucinia et al. (2006) Manual de planeamento e avaliação de Projectos. Lisboa: Principia.