Description: 

Today, global investors are divesting and constrained about financing projects in some African countries due to local and non-technical risks that diminish projects and make them unsuccessful.  Also, some EPC companies awarded project contracts also fail due to unstudied local risks. These local nontechnical risks have become the primary source of project delays, budget overruns, project failures and economic disasters. These local risks need to be studied and managed to advance economic growth of African countries.  

This training on “Management of Local Non-Technical Project Risks” covers all aspects of risks that are not related to proprietary technologies which often causes over 70% failure of projects across Africa.  The training focuses on identification of non-technical project risks, managing process of risk governance, and implementation of key concepts, processes, behaviors, and competences needed to deliver large and complex projects in Africa.   

Upon completing the course, participants are expected to have broad understanding of issues that limit project success across Africa, understand interface management of key stakeholders, tools, behaviors, and competences involved across the entire project cycle.   

Objectives

• Recognize major local and non-technical risks where professional management of such risks results in successful project execution.  
• Modulate governance of a project team that mitigates local nontechnical risks and delivers maximum content of high-value projects.
• Describe cross-interface local risks of project failures and connect all stakeholders that will lead the project to timely success.
• Prepare, plan, and manage large-scale strategies for mitigating multidimensional local project risks, starting from project opportunity identification to project execution and commissioning.
• Take judicious and courageous personal accountability for managing local project risks with innovative ideas, results, and continuous improvement in relation to project success.  
• Continually maintain strategic and mutually-beneficial interdependent relationships with external partners and project stakeholders.

Participants

• Government Regulators and Policy Makers
• Project Investors, Financial Experts, Bankers and Stakeholders
• Project Governance & Risk Managers, EPC, QA-QC, & Commissioning
• Experienced Commercial Strategists and Negotiators
• Technical Experts and Legal Professionals
• Asset Management, Operation and Maintenance Teams, Others

Participating Industries

• Oil and Gas
• Financing
• Power Generation and Distribution
• Renewable Energy
• Manufacturing
• Construction
• Mining
• Telecommunications
• Commerce
• Technology, Innovation & Others.

Content

• Simulations of project failures
• Business case for active management of non-technical risks
• Effective internal project governance structure
• Tools to identify, assess, quantify, and mitigate non-technical risks
• Integrate non-technical risks into business decision-making processes
• Focus on attributes of local project risks – regulatory, security, stakeholders, host community, and staff motivation issues.
• Champion Your Project Success

Learning Outcomes

• Reduce risk of project failures and loss of financial investments.
• Take action to prevent impacts of project failures.
• Create methods to work with regulators, investors, and communities
• Achieve standards required by lenders and financial institutions
• Application of management tools for non-technical risks
• Quantification of non-technical risks to drive focus and action
• Linking up with the business decision-making process
• Dealing with local resistance to Projects
• Course participants will visualize blueprint for Project Success

Projects to Benefit  

• Oil and Gas (Upstream, Midstream, Downstream)
• CNG, LPG, LNG and C-LNG
• Power Generation, Electrical Transmission and Distribution
• Renewable (Biofuel and Solar)
• Flare Gas and Emission Reduction
• Refinery & Petrochemical Manufacturing
• Civil Construction
• Technology Innovation

Register Fast and Secure a Seat, including OTC at Houston, USA.  

1. Ghana
   • Start date: April 9th, 2025
   • End date: April 11th, 2025
   • Start time: 09:00am
   • End time: 04:00pm
   • Cost: $2,650.00
2. USA (Pre-session to OTC, Houston, 5th – 8th May 2025)
   • Start date: April 30th, 2025
   • End date: May 2nd, 2025
   • Start time: 09:00am
   • End time: 04:00pm
   • Cost: $2,500.00
3. Rwanda
   • Start date: July 9th, 2025
   • End date: July 11th, 2025
   • Start time: 09:00am
   • End time: 04:00pm
   • Cost: $3,100.00

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