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Scenario-1 Starting the project idea:

I start this project while observing in my community that there is a lot's of youth that participate in HIV/AIDS risk behavior that make them more susceptible to HIV infection.

Scenario-2 Detailed initiation and formulation of my project ideas it practical form.
This start immediately after i intend to start the project on HIV/AIDS risk behavior and it is still under progress.

Scenario-3 Building my capacity on project management.
I start this immediately after I intend to start project on HIV/AIDS risk behavior by various method reading,volunteering and training (sprout)

Scenario-4 searching for fund and negotiating with local administration and finding stakeholder.

This already started and is under progress I decided which stake holder to approach and I am intending to negotiate about my project with local administration.

Scenario-5 Actual implementing of the project:this include
1-recruiting volunteer,staff
2-deciding the beneficiaries
3-Preparing detailed project implementation plan,action plan..etc
4-Actual implementation of the project.

Backcasting to the above scenario.

Let's see what I have done My start is good I start from nowhere and I progress like this
1- I saw those youth wasting their time and energy in bad behavior that eventually lead them to HIV or kill them
2- I intend to do on my part to help them and to save them ,to change their behavior.
3-I start from scratch the project.
4-I got training opportunity in sprout.
5-I build my capacity and I start to develop my project in detail so as I can easily implement it.
6-I search for fund
7-I start actual implementation after I get the fund .

All the above is difficult task but me and my staff are determined to see the project be fruitful and above all we help those youth grow healthy and become a responsible citizen that can change their community and their country at large.

- How do I ensure my project remains relevant and is constantly improving?

Evaluation is the most important tool for a project to achieve its expected goal and objectives ,and to inform both stakeholder and the the public that the project had gained its objectives and goal.
To do this the project remain committed to it's mission and vision.
The project must also constantly feed it's stakeholder and beneficiaries about ongoing project activities, the level of impact the project has achieved, its successes and failure and the challenges your project has faced.In doing these the project is able to gain support and my feedback,way to improve for future and more importantly my willingness to maintain transparency and accountability throughout the management of your project.

- Have you ever had to conduct an evaluation of a project before?
Before I started this project I conducted a survey on whether the project is achievable and implementable .
- How can a project evaluation help you? Your project team? And your stakeholders?
A project evaluation will help greatly because it can help keep track of project progress,show the impact of the project to the stakeholder,donor.It also help the project team to see whether the objectives are meet its success its failure where improvement and revision is needed and finally whether it has follow its scheduled implementation plan.
- How will you monitor and gather, analyze and report your findings to your stakeholders?

My project mainly intend to use the following document as a data source these is :daily,weekly and monthly report,filed visit,discussion with volunteer, and collecting of data on the number of training and discussion session.
In addition to these document I also intend to do a small survey on the impact of my project on the community.

Fund raising is important for my project because I need money to finance various activities of my project my project is extremely dependent on funding to finance is expense so that I intend to find various funding mechanism .
I intend to get fund from both local and international NGOs and Business communities, in addition I also try to use volunteer to raise money to my project by various fund raising activities.
From all these activities we hope to get all the money needed to finance my project.

There will arise a barrier to get the fund but we intend to use various mechanism and we will give the funding proposal to many funding agencies in case one doesn't provide thinking that the other will

Core Value of my project
I envision to see a community where young people live healthy.The project seek to change the awareness of young people toward HIV risk behavior there bye contributing to the prevention of HIV from Ethiopia.The project believe that informed ,educated and empowered youth can change their attitude and behavior there bye contributing to the sustaining of healthy behavior among society member and eventually the reduction of HIV infection created by risky behavior.

Core Value
-EMPOWERMENT
Empowering youth by awareness raising and Training so that they can change their bad and risky behavior that leads them to HIV infection.
-SERVICE
The project thinks that giving various service to youth that can create job,recreation ,leisure, to youth can deter them from bad behavior.
-INNOVATIVNESS
The project try to see by doing innovative sample survey the most risk behavior youth involved and that make them HIV victim.
-DIDI CATION
The project try to dedicate its time,energy,money to solve the problem of youth.

Core Principle of the Project.

Responsibility
I am as a citizen of my country have a responsibility to contribute to the development of the country and sustaining of healthy citizen that can be responsible,informed and inspired.
Advocacy
The project try to advocate for provision of better medical,social service to youth.
Participation
The project thinks that without the active participation of youth the project cannot be a reality so that the project actively participate all youth in the community irrespective of gender,ethnicity,disability,educational and employment status.

One of the best ways to grow a healthy project is to be aware of the risks and challenges that you may face along the way.
In all project there will be a probability for a certain kind of risk to happen my own project is not an exception to these kind of problem.
Many kind of risk will happen to my project among the most important risk probably think to happen is the disparity that will happen between the actual scheduled project and the actual implementation in the ground.
There will also happen some times the donor may not be willing to let me get money in time and the material I need may not be available in the market during the time I need them.
There will also an availability of volunteer or the volunteer may left the project after they start to work for it.

If then What can I do if these kind of unexpected event accrue to my project?
First there I will put extra 2-3 days for un expected event and i try to keep the deadline by breaking the task so that I can get better control over them.
Second there will be a waiting volunteer in case there comes a volunteer leave so I can replace them from waiting list.
Third I must do some market survey to see if there will be a unavailability of some item in the market during the time I need them if so I must try to get them in time of their availability.
finally if there is thing beyond me what can I do?