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Risk Management in Development Projects
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 10 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Identify the main stages involved in preparing a risk management plan for development projects following the IDB’s methodology, which is based on PMI’s international standards, to successfully achieve expected results and impacts.
- Recognize the process of identifying risks that may affect the project and documenting their characteristics to facilitate risk analysis and subsequent management.
- Recognize the main elements of the risk analysis process and evaluating and combining risks’ probability of occurrence and impact to prioritize them.
- Recognize risk management strategies that allow for managing opportunities and threats that could impact the project’s objectives.
- Recognize the main elements of the risk monitoring process and continuously optimizing responses to improve efficiency when managing the project life cycle.
Prerequisite
We recommend that participants be PMPs or CAPMs, or have prior project management training.
Instructors
Vanessa Sayos del Castillo
International Project Management Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank Consultant and PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) ®
Inter-American Development Bank
Santiago Fretes
Senior Operations Associate at the Country Department Southern Cone
Inter-American Development Bank
Allan Quijano
Operations Consultant
Inter-American Development Bank
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