PM4NGOs Launches the 2018 Alan Harpham Award.
Entries are now open for the Alan Harpham Award which honors and recognizes an individual with distinguished actions in promoting the professionalization of project management in the international development and humanitarian sectors. The deadline for entries is 16 November 2018 and the winner will be announced 7 December 2018.
The selected winner demonstrates not only leadership in advocating for project management professionalization within the sector but also in making it available to those who are most in need. It is also open to a range of stakeholders in the sector such as community-based organizations or local NGOs.
The award is named in honor of Alan Harpham, former Board Member of PM4NGOs and Chairman of APMG, and a global citizen dedicated to making this sector and community a better place.
For information about the entry criteria please visit https://www.pm4ngos.org/alan-harpham-award-criteria/
Becoming a nominee
People can subscribe or nominate other person who is committed to advancing project management best practices through PM4NGOs tools, such as PMD Pro. The candidate must fulfil one or more of the following criteria:
- Innovation: How has the candidate demonstrated creativity and innovation in the successful implementation of PMD Pro tools and principles? The innovation must be a direct consequence of or based on PMD Pro application.
- Impact: What are some qualitative and/or quantitative measures of the impact of the candidate’s work in project management for development and/or humanitarian sector through PMD Pro
- Promoting Access: Giving the opportunity to professionals to access the methodology. How is the candidate’s actions focused on promoting the access to PMD Pro to a range of stakeholders in the sector such as community based
organizations or local NGOs?
What the recipients receive
The Alan Harpham Award recipient will receive a certificate recognizing the awardee, a lifetime honorary membership to PM4NGOs community and recognition and publication of his or her work on the PM4NGOs social network. The nominations and candidacy will be accepted until 16 November 2018 and the Award Announcement will happen at December 7th! Check out the eligibility, criteria and details of the award process.
2017 Alan Harpham Award
The 2017 Alan Harpham Award recipient was Terver Kuegh, Project Management Specialist at Action Against Hunger Nigeria, an organization operating in Nigeria since 2010.
Growing demand required that Action Against Hunger increase its staff and capacity to meet the needs, which also required a substantial amount of capacity building for the new team members. Terver Kuegh utilized an online methodology known as the PMD Pro Flex for the mass dissemination of PMD Pro knowledge and tools to team members. The methodology consists of interactive delivery methods such as: videos, e-learning modules, structure readings, and collaborative assignments for which participants earn points allowing them to progress through each level in the course.
“Learning PMD Pro this way made it easy to update senior management on the progress of each participant. This increased the commitment of participants and fostered organizational buy-in,” said Terver Kuegh.
