Under this stage, your office will go through specific steps to make development projects compliant with the Results Management Guide. The objective of this stage is to improve the effective quality monitoring of these projects through the proper definition of Outputs and Activities and the introduction of management tools. More specifically, these steps will consist of the following:

• Conduct a portfolio analysis to determine which development projects should comply with the RMG and in which order of priority
• Once this analysis is completed, selected projects should comply through:
  • The Definition of project Outputs and Activities, which may imply a re-structuring of these projects
  • Reflection of these definitions in Atlas, using the Project Management module.
  • Initiation of logs for risks and issues in Atlas to record, anticipate and manage issues and risks that may impact the implementation of projects
  • Completion and approval of 2006 Annual work plans (AWP)
  • Completion of the Monitoring and Communication Plan
  • The introduction of a Project Organization Structure as defined in the RMG.

On-going projects will present a specific challenge as they will need to go through a "conversion" process. Making these projects compliant with the RMG shall be seen as an opportunity to review the alignment of outputs, the monitoring framework as well as roles and responsibilities.

The stage shall be coordinated by the CEDAR Project Manager, but will require the active participation of all programme staff directly involved in the management of these projects.