ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on procedures that can be used to design projects that draw on the resources in the environment, including members of the local community. Some claim that analytic and quantitative procedures are misguided efforts to impose rationality on a basically political process. The design of any project must deal with all of the following issues: organizational structure, economic and social analysis, feedback or learning systems, and balancing efficiency with equity. Development analysts are paying increased attention to the process approach, and that approach is clearly an improvement over the older blueprint strategies of project design. Tree diagraming is a process that can be used to specify components of a problem and is particularly useful when project design is carried out by teamwork. The logical framework for project design is a matrix that can be completed as part of the design process, then forming part of the project documentation.
