Acknowledgments

This Project Management Toolbook has been written during my time with Africa Leadership Forum in Nigeria, where I worked as a VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) Volunteer, from January 2001 to May, 2002.

I was asked to share my project management experiences with my colleagues within Africa Leadership Forum (ALF) and with ALF’s ‘clients’; the participants of ALF’s courses, trainings and workshops. I felt that a toolbook on Project Management would have added value to my other activities, like working closely together with my colleagues on the several programmes that the ALF was conducting, by holding an in-house workshop on Project Management and by organizing a training workshop with a specific emphasis on project management for Nigerian leaders. Also, I felt the need to leave something tangible behind that could be consulted after my departure, especially, when I noticed the enormous hunger of ALF colleagues and workshop participants for information, books, and other tools that could assist them in their work. And from a practical point of view, I gathered so much information on Project Management that it would be a waste not to repackage it and make it –hopefully- useful to a broader audience.