Project Management for the Development of a Community Based-Mothers and Infants Centre

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to take this chance for thanking my research facilitator, friends & family for the support they provided & their belief in me as well as guidance they provided without which I would have never been able to do this research.

DECLARATION

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTii

DECLARATIONiii

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION1

Rationale1

Objectives2

Aim3

Significance of the Study3

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW5

Introduction5

Background6

Theoretical Framework8

Theoretical Framework of Management9

Modern Project Management Emergence10

Project Management and Projects11

Project Management Significance12

Effectiveness of Project Management13

Efficiency Driven Project Management Best Practices17

Stakeholders18

Project Sponsorship and Costs19

Performing Organization20

Project Managers20

Project Teams22

Building a team of Knowledge through Training and Development24

Summary26

REFERENCES27

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION

Rationale

For the past 6 years I have had a strong concern for the health of young children in the chohla sahib area of India. This is the area in which I was born and raised. Through my studies at the University and my practice as a teacher and lecturer I have come to learn that it is possible to alleviate the problems of malnutrition through well designed and meaningfully focused educational programs. The challenge to the creation and operation of these programs, however, is twofold. First, there are not any teaching materials to assist mothers of young children in understanding how to improve nutritional intake and the effect that nutritional intake has on the health and welfare of their own children. And second, there is not any group of trained facilitators to assist in delivering this information in a timely and meaningful manner. Beitler (2005) suggested that the most powerful way to affect the health and welfare of a young child is through the improved understanding of the child's mother. This project will focus on the development of teaching materials and a system for helping mothers of young children learn appropriate food and nutrition information to help in the development of their children. And, it will occur in a local community location, close to where these mothers of young children are living.

Figure 1: Projected percentage of children under three who are underweight in poor states, under different (Source: World Bank 2004a.)

According to an article of World Bank (siteresources.worldbank.org 2011), it has been mentioned that there is severe malnutrition predicted in the coming years in India. These statistics makes this research even more significant for the maintenance of the healthcare project and the benefit to be provided to the local population.

Objectives

The objectives behind "Healthy Moms for Healthy Kids”, are as follows:

Development of a healthcare centre which will be providing the basic healthcare services and information regarding proper health management of children and adolescents

Proper management of the project and its effective implementation for maintenance of healthcare in chohla sahib

Effective profit generation and maintenance of facilities offered at ...