HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK AND CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS OF PLANNING
Unit 1
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Topics include:
-Social development and planning. Planning models and development styles
in Latin America and Argentina.
- History of systemic planning: origin and evolution. Ideology and the great
Models.
- Social and economic planning as a permanent function.
- Institutionalization of social and economic planning by the state.
- Forms of social participation in planning.
- Relationship between planning and social work. The interdisciplinary exercise and the
complexity of social processes. The technical and the political in planning.
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CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ELEMENTS FOR THE
RESEARCH OF DIAGNOSTIC INVESTIGATIONS
Unit 2
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Topics include:
- The diagnosis for decision making.
- Clarification of nature and
magnitude of social problems.
- Conceptual elements for the construction of social diagnosis.
- The role of social actors/ Participation analysis and Process management.
- Social diagnosis as a knowledge process and intervention tool. |
PROGRAMMING AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT: DIFFERENT APPROACHES AND
METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Unit 3
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- The planning process. Operational levels: plans, programs, projects.
Process development.
- Traditional planning vs. Strategic planning. Analysis of the planning process.
- Conceptual elements of strategic planning and Strategic thinking
- Methodology of the logical framework.
- Introduction to the methodology of integral management of social programs oriented to
results
- Importance of the communicational aspect.
- Allocation of resources.
- Analysis of experiences. |
EVALUATION OF PLANNING
Unit 4
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- Diagnosis as a frame of reference for evaluation.
- Analysis of the formulation of planning as a proposal for change.
- Phases in the evaluation process: formulation, implementation, results and
impacts
- Characteristics of participatory evaluation.
- Evaluation strategies. Main factors of success or failure.
- Methodology and evaluation technique. Evaluation design. Construction of
indicators. |
