Logical Framework Approach
Work-Plan
Once the LFM has been completed, the main activities identified can be further detailed and used to build up the work-plan. A work-plan is an essential Activity planning document that provides a clear, often graphically presented, representation of the Activity’s main activities/tasks, their sequence, timing and who will have management responsibility for them. The work-plan also provides the basis for the scheduling of inputs or resources (resource schedule) and the Activity budget.
The level of detail in the work-plan produced during the design stage will depend on the particular Activity and its length. For a small Activity lasting a year there should be a work-plan for the whole Activity, for a larger multi-year intervention only an indicative Work-plan would be needed. In the latter case a detailed Work-plan would be developed during the Inception phase and up-dated annually during implementation.
The work-plan, along with the resource schedule, is an important component of an Activity design document and contains essential information to help determine whether to proceed with the implementation of the Activity.
Details of how to develop a work-plan are included in Annex 6: Developing a Work-Plan.