Risks and Assumptions

Question 1

Risks are

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key events, actions or decisions

upon which project success depends

which may be subject to delay or which may not materialise.

Question 2

Risks are not supposed to occur

Answer 2

but there is a probability that they might

Question 3

Assumptions are

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external factors

outside the immediate control of the project,

crucial for
the achievement of activities, results and objectives

Question 4

The aim of specifying assumptions and preconditions is to

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ID and assess
potential risks to, dependencies of, the project right from initial stages of the project design,

to support the M of risks during the Imp of the
project

to provide a basis for necessary adjustments.

Question 5

It is important to identify the assumptions at

Answer 5

each level of the logical framework analysis

Question 6

Some assumptions can be identified during the

Answer 6

analysis phase as objectives included in the
objective tree

Question 7

Those objectives are not achieved by the project but

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they can be important for achieving the purpose of the project

Question 8

For example

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a nutrition project may have ‘improved nutritional status of the population’ as its purpose, in a context where this may only be achieved on the condition
that a complementary water project achieves its specific objectives.

One of the assumptions behind the nutritional project therefore may be that this condition is met

Question 9

Other examples are:

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‘access to water will be guaranteed, assuming that there is no sabotage of the transmission line of the water system’,

Question 10

other example

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‘capacity in the region will be improved,

assuming that

the authorities continue to participate in training’,

Question 11

other example

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‘a system can be built in a specific area, assuming that access to the area is guaranteed’.

Question 12

There are different levels of assumption depending on

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Their relevance to the project.

Question 13

If an assumption for success is unlikely

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Then the project should be redesigned

Question 14

If it is sure, or almost sure,that it will occur,

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Then it is not necessary to include it in the logical framework

Question 15

Preconditions
A precondition is a

Answer 15

condition that must be satisfied before the project starts.

Question 16

Examples OF Preconditions

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‘an end to the conflict allows access to the area’

Question 17

Examples of Preconditions

Answer 17

‘communities agree to participate
in activity implementation’

Question 18

Examples of Preconditions