Project Proposal For Construction Of Education

Centre
INTRODUCTION
The policy was passed by the government after realizing the fact that early
childhood education leaves an imprint in the child’s mind and it is a significant
factor in the mental and social development of children. The government puts
stress on this type of education in its effort to develop the country’s human
resources.

It is from this need that Redeemed Education Centre builds its foundation to
explore this opportunity by coming up with a vision of setting up the Centre for
early childhood to access which will help to prevent stunted cognitive development
of child and is reputed for facilitating better future performance in school.

Redeemed Education Centre will offer pre-primary education, primary education

and secondary education. Secondary education will consist of ordinary level and
high school level. It is estimated that first phase of its construction will be done in
the first five years.

This project proposal is about education centre construction of which will be

known as redeemed Education Centre. Upon completion, it will have pre-primary
education, primary education and secondary education. Secondary education will
consist of ordinary level and high school level. The official language will be
English, which will be used at all levels.

As mentioned earlier, the scope of this project proposal will be to construct the
education centre within five years, whereby pre-primary school and primary school
will start simultaneously in one year while building construction will be
progressing. Ordinary secondary school is planned to commence in year three and
advanced level in year four.

The general goal of this school is to have a school centre which will offer
education of high quality basing on the Ministry of Education curriculum. This
centre will provide accommodation to those who are coming from a distant area
and also provide tea as well as lunch to those who stay at home.
The education centre has its plan in future to have branches in different regions
depending on availability of fund as it is in the process of requesting grants. The
subject combinations are tailored towards what is offered in tertiary and higher
education

The project name is redeemed education centre construction.

Project location

The project will be located at Kubease at Ejiso-Juaben municipality

Project buildings will be constructed at Kubase Village which is situated five (5)
kilometres from Ejiso-juaben Municipality

Electricity from the main grid at the rural passes through the village and is about
five hundred (500) meters from the site where the school buildings will be
constructed.

Project Area

The total area made available one and half acre(1 ½) hectares and this will be used
for the constructions of buildings, basketball, netball court, football pitch, short
put, high jump, long green areas and gardens land is not a problem around the area
and if the school will need more land it will have to apply for such land and it will
not be difficult at all to be allocated such land.

Problem statement

The project is in line with government efforts to establish as many pre-schools,

primary schools and secondary schools as possible so that many children get
access to education. Quality basic education is very important to even the poor
children. People of GHANA constitutes empowerment; and it is one of the tools
that will empower the country in different aspects of the war against poverty

Priority need
The priority need of this project proposal is to have an education institution which
will join hand with the ministry of education’s effort of having a nation with high
level of education at all levels; a nation which produces the quality and quantity of
educated people sufficiently equipped with the requisite knowledge to solve the
society’s problems in order to meet the challenges of development and attain
competitiveness at regional and global at large at affordable costs.

Project objectives

`This project proposal has two main objectives as mentioned here under:

To respond to the needs of a rapidly growing business and education sector in the
municipality by producing the quality and quantity of educated people sufficiently
equipped with the requisite knowledge to solve the society’s problems in order to
meet the challenges of development and attain competitiveness at regional and
global at large at affordable costs.

The following objectives will be implemented after getting approval from the
Ministry of Education and Vocational Training.

. The School will provide subsidized healthy meals daily to children attending this
Centre School.

This Centre will continue to raise funds for running the operation of the school by
requesting sponsorship for educating the children attending this centre.

Target group

The target groups of this project proposal are:

The children who currently attend normal Kindergarten, Primary School and
Secondary school, as well as the children living in Kubease community who need
to improve their education level;

The teachers who instruct the children according to the Syllabus provided by the
Ministry of Education and Vocational Training;

The supporting administrative and ancillary staff who will facilitate the operation
of the

school.
Parents and guardians in the community who are interested in giving their

children the opportunity of education at this education centre.

Project results

This project is planned to be constructed at a minimum low cost so as to enable

kubease community afford to pay the required fees. Construction will be conducted
in three phases as follows: Phase one will start in year one, focusing on
construction of pre- primary school and other necessary planned buildings. Phase
two will follow year two for aiming for construction of primary school class rooms
with other necessary planned buildings and phase three will start year four for
construction of secondary school class rooms.

Key project activities

Key project of Centre will include field activities, building design and construction
supervision..

Some other activities will include: title Deed follow – up, topographical survey,
master plan preparation. It will also involve location position of buildings. Streets,
green areas, open spaces, play grounds etc. Location positioning of storm water,
foul water, sewage system in relation to septic tank and sock pits. Setting out
dimensions will involve building lines, setbacks and detailed dimensions between
one building and the other.

Project Feasibility study

This covers all aspects of the project, describing in details all activities and
finances involved.

Project budgets

In our project this will be our projection of source of income and our plan how are
we going to spend this limited resources as expenses over a specified period of
time. 1. Secondary School

Local Church
Primary School

Secondary school

. Sports Arena

Total Add: 30% Infrastructures

10% Consultancy Fees

Total Construction Costs

Other operational costs 1

Grand Total Costs The main activities and cost estimate involved are summarized
below as:-

Project Capital Costs.

Project costs are divided into various types namely: investment costs which fall
into several categories:

Buildings construction costs

These are costs incurred in the construction of school buildings and infrastructure.

Total construction costs

Add: infrastructure 30%

Add: 10% consultancy fees

Total costs

Office Furniture and equipment costs.

These are furniture and equipment which will be purchased to furnish the schools.
Offices furnish and equipment will be purchased in phases as more classes and
offices are constructing red to completion. No definite phasing has been put in
place because the phasing will depend on availability of funds. Total costs to
purchase furniture and equipment stand at Laboratory Equipment costs
Every secondary school worth the name must have facilities for laboratories where
laboratory equipments are a necessity. Agape Love Education Secondary school
will have Biology laboratory, Physics laboratory and Chemistry laboratory which
will be equipped appropriately.

Biology laboratory equipment

Chemistry laboratory equipment

Physics laboratory equipment

Total costs

Purchase of school Van

A van will have to be bought for the school so as to cater for all transport
requirements of the school.

Purchase of Van 31/4 tons year five will cost

Purchases of washing machine

This will cater for washing all the school bed sheets etc

Other costs are for the purchase of furniture and Equipment estimated at

Laboratory equipment for Physics, Chemistry and Biology laboratories will cost
about

Total Capital costs

Project duration

The project proposal duration will be for five years which will be preceded with
final evaluations that will be conducted at the end of five years. This evaluation
intends to make an extensive review of the whole project to see its sustainability
for its the long run.

Consultation and participation

The project has also involved some experts especially for works like, conducting
project feasibility study, design and drawings, buildings constructions, risk
analysis, project evaluation etc.A registered construction firm with the registrar of
companies under the Companies Ordinance , but its staffs are backed up with vast
experience in the building design and construction industry as well as projects
planning; project appraisal and financial management acquired while working with
other firm:-

Policies or development strategy

This school centre is aiming to be the leading centre academically, socially,

environmentally in the country. For this centre to meet these goals some policies
and strategies have been put in place. Some of them include: to recruit skilled and
experienced teaching staff and non teaching staff, to have in job training plan for
all workers, to motivate all workers whose performance in every speciality will be
excellent and to continue revising different policies wherever possible for the
purpose of improvement

Goals

The project goal is mainly for the construction of buildings for the pre-school,
primary school and secondary school for the purpose of providing education. The
buildings will cater for learning and boarding requirement of all pupils and
students; plus the accommodation requirements of the teachers other school staff.
The students and pupils physical fitness requirements will be met by having a
sports arena in the school and grounds.

Objective and output

The main objective is to respond to the needs of a rapidly growing business and
education sector in Kubease municipality by producing the quality and quantity of
educated people sufficiently equipped with the requisite knowledge to solve the
society’s problems in order to meet the challenges of development and attain
competitiveness at regional and global at large at affordable costs. This will be met
by having Agape Love Education Centre in place.

PROJECT APPARAISAL AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS

Project Appraisal

Business dictionary defined project appraisal as a systematic and comprehensive

review of the economic, environmental, financial, social, and technical and other
such aspects of a project to determine if it will meet its objectives.
Operational necessity

Every project proposal should pass through this criterion for appraisal. In our
education centre, this analysis will assist to determine the merit and acceptability
of our school centre in accordance with under laid established criteria. This will be
the final step before our project is accepted for financing. It helps us know that our
project is feasible against the situation on the ground that the objectives set remain
appropriate and that costs are reasonable.

Project appraisal methods

Social appraisal

A social appraisal will help us review the project design and the process of project
identification by implementing and monitoring its progress, from a social
perspective. Particular attention will be paid to the likely impact of the project on
different stakeholders, their opportunities for participation, and the project’s
contribution to poverty reduction.

Institutional appraisal

This will help us ensures that the supporting institutions are in place and that they
can operate effectively within the existing legislative and policy environment. This
project has identified opportunities for institutional strengthening and capacity
building at a relative cost.

Economic and financial appraisal

This helped our project to make an analysis of economic soundness of the project
and quantification and valuation of costs and benefits that ensured our financial
viability.

Environmental appraisal

The plan was made to invite the government specialists in environmental appraisal

Environmental Assessment (EA) will assist us to meet one of our goals of having a
school centre with a conducive academic environment. Most countries have
environment impact assessment (EIA) policy and supporting legislation.
Traditionally, EIA will be designed to operate at our project level to help us
identify impacts and mitigation measures for this project.
Technical appraisal

Technically, this project is going to be feasible .During the time of conducting

technical appraisal, a comprehensive review of all technical aspects of the project
such as rendering judgment on merits of technical proposals and operating costs
will be clearly seen. Some of a checklist that will be used is:

• To prove or test the technology that will be used to implement the entire tasks.

• To have a list of equipment and machinery to be installed with their cost and
specifications.

• To know the equipment capacity and whether it is as per requirement etc.

Project Sensitivity analysis

Sensitivity analysis will be done in our project to help us determine which

variables have the most potential to affect this project. These variables include:
task duration, task start time, and success rate and costs risks.

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

 Fund solicitation

 .Buildings constructions

 Purchase of office furniture

 Laboratory equipment

 Purchase of school van

  Pupils registration

 Risk analysis

 Monitoring and evaluation

 Budget preparation

 School registration process

 Recruitment of non and teaching staff

Management arrangement

Project personnel

In every project human resource is very important to ensure that tasks are
performed as planned. This includes project manager and project team.

1Individual roles

In our project, every project team member will have a certain role assigned to
perform at a specified period of time so as to accomplish our goal.

Communication mechanisms

In our project this mechanism will help Create a document showing the needs to be
kept informed about the project and how they will receive the information. The
most common mechanism is a weekly or monthly progress report, describing how
the project is performing, milestones achieved and work planned for the next
period.
Project timing and scheduling

In carrying out project tasks resources have been allocated to meet activities
scheduled so as meet the allocated time. This ha been helped us to determine
schedule dates on which activities should be performed this goes hand by hand
with resource scheduling. This involves many considerations such as logistics and
customer needs.

Project budget

According to Dr. Magigi & Mwaitete lecture notice, a budget is a financial plan
that is prepared and approved prior to the budget period and may show income,
expenditure and the capital to be employed. A budget may be for the business as a
whole departments function such as sales and production.

Project financial report

Balance sheet

Atrill & McLaney (2008) defined a balance sheet as a statement of financial

position that show the assets of a business and the claims on those assets (Refer
Table 6)

Income statement

According to Atrill & McLaney (2008) Income statement is a statement that

measures and reports the profit or loss the business has generated during a period.
It is derived by deducting from total revenue for a period, the total expenses
associated with that revenue. (Refer Table 7)

Cash flow statement

According to Burke (2008) Cash flow statement is a document which models the
flow of money in and out of the project reported in a monthly basis. (Refer Table
5)

Project monitoring and evaluation

Monitoring
According to Choudhury S (2004) monitoring is referred to as checking how much
has been done and what needs to be done for accomplishments of the project tasks.

Evaluation

Ngailo (2007) defined project evaluation as systematic investigative information

that help determine whether the project is proceeding as planned and is meeting the
stated programme goals and project objectives according to the proposed timeline.

PROJECT RISK ANALYSIS

Rationale of project risks analysis

According to Dr. Magigi & Mwaitete Lacture notice. a risk is defined as an

uncertain event which should it occur, will have an effect on the project meeting its
objectives. The rationale of project risk analysis is to reduce the probability and
impact of threats and to increase the probability of opportunities and/or their
positive impact.

Typical source of project risks

In most likely any project may be faced by some of these risks: Legal (patents and
lawsuits), changes in technology (does your software project need to support
Windows Vista?), natural hazards and conditions (have you seen the latest volcano
news?), eenvironmental (does a protected or rare species lie in your freeway path?)

Countermeasures for project risks

In our project we have looked at this part critically from the planning stage. Under
this part we carried out the quantitative analysis by involving different experts
brainstorming with them, and consulting other skilled people to ensure that we
review a history of our project where necessary to make the proper judgments. As
a result we listed some risks prioritized by probability and impact for us to avoid,
ignore, or accommodate different impacts likely to happen.

CONCLUSION

The redeemed Education Center continues to demonstrate its commitment to the

development of kubease by submitting this five year project proposal document for
approval and in so doing it continues to fulfil one of the objectives of the Ministry
of Education and Vocation Training of participating in the development of the
population of kubease and the rest of the regions. The Redeemed School centre
aims to make many children in the Kubease community for the coming five years
feel happy by providing a high standard of education in particular for pre-school,
primary school, secondary school, and high school

THANK YOU.