DR:Mali Water and Disabilities Study/09-10 Project planning article

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Mali Water and Disabilities Study

Contents 1 Stakeholders 1.1 Sponsors 1.2 Team members 2 Project update 2.1 Progress report 2.2 Status assessment 2.3 Work needed 3 Annual plan 3.1 Methods and deliverables 3.2 Time line 3.3 Personnel 3.4 Facilities 4 Housekeeping 5 Budget

Stakeholders

Sponsors

• Group - Disability Resources
• Client - Citizens of Mali in the Tominion and San Regions

Team members

• Team advisor - Dr. Ray Norman Lzimmerman 18:01, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
• Team leader - Daniel McCurdy
• Team leader elect - TBD
• Additional advisors - Dr. Barbara Ressler, Dr. Timothy Van Dyke, Dr. Lamarr Widmer, Evie Telfer
• Additional students - Joanna Larson, Kay-See Tan, Stevie Baum, Emily Howell, Doug Coiner, Sarah Finney, Kendall Leaman, Adam Lenon, Zachary Crane, Sarah Jarnecki, Emily Brantner, Liz Susmann, Suzanne Smart, Steph Knepper

Project update

Progress report

• All sub-teams worked on documentation of what has occurred in the project to date in preparation to write the final report due December 2009.
• Latrine: Finalized seat design, developed technologies to aid the blind in finding latrine hole, added supports in wall of latrine and analyzed prototypes.
• Pump: Finalized pump blue prints, corrected errors found in January '09, analyzed time-lapse photography, designed new pump handle to accompany seat and further tested pump design.
• Transport: Finalized design for bucket tipper, researched more in plastic welding.
• Statistics: Prepared analyzed statistics for publishing.

Status assessment

• As of June 2009 all testing will be completed and drafting of the final report will begin.
• Preparations for the continuation of the research will need to occur in the 2009-2010 school year.

Work needed

• The next stage in the project is to write the final report of our study.
• A project proposal will need to be written for the continuation of this work.
• A grant proposal will need to be written to the Conrad Hilton Foundation which outlines the plan and methodology for the next stage in our research.

Annual plan

Methods and deliverables

1. Dr. Norman will write the final report but will need assistance in the following areas:
   • More details will need to be added to the documentation written in S09.
     • The pump sub-team will prepare a document summarizing the research that shows pictures of what has been accomplished and gives the rational for the changes made between designs. A document giving a verbal history of the work will need to be written no later that the middle of October.
     • The latrine and sanitation sub-teams will add needed details to the documentation done in the previous year no later than the middle of October.
     • The transportation sub-team will reorganize the documentation already finished and add needed detail.
   • Time-lapse photography has been taken in Mali and needs to be analyzed.
     • In the first two weeks we will decide to do the work ourselves or pay others to do our work.
     • If we choose to do the work ourselves we will need to plan work times that meeting.
2. Grant Proposal (written according to the Conrad Hilton Foundation Standards)
   • A section outlining our need for an employee and our requirements will be included.
   • An outline for the need to disperse our information will be needed. This will include reasons and methods for designing workshops in the next five years.
   • Focuses for different geographical areas will be outlined.
   • An outline of the phases of the five year project will be included.
   • A budget that accounts for a full time employee, materials and site trips will be included.
   • Data handling methods will be included that outline how we will organize the information we accumulate through the five years.
3. New Advisors
   • Due to the nature of the amount of writing this year our needs will be different from other years. We will decide on what our needs are and look for an advisor or two to help fulfill those needs.
   • We will need to fulfill this goal within the three weeks of the first meeting.
4. A project proposal will have to be written for the next phase of the research outlining many of the similar items in the Grant Proposal. This will be written according to the Collaboratory guidelines.
5. Employee Requirements
   • Research will be done to see what the requirements of the Collaboroatory and Messiah College are for hiring a full time employee with our grant money.
   • Requirements for a full time employee will be written.
   • Negotiable requirements for a full time employee will be written.
   • Methods for finding an employee will be outlined and implemented.
6. Marketing
   • A pamphlet outlining what we have accomplished will be written.
7. Connections with Joni Eareckson Tada
   • Representatives from her organisation will be coming in October 5th, we will need to host them and meet with them extensively.
   • Through the year we will need to be in contact to continue discussion on how we can partner.

Time line

Timeline 2009-2010

Personnel

• It would be helpful to recruit communications and/or English composition majors to help in writing our final report and new grant proposal.
• We are not focusing on recruiting engineers this year due to the fact that we will not be working on many hands-on projects this year.
• Dr. Widmer is on sabbatical this year and Dr. Norman will be focusing more on his responsibilities as Dean so we are looking into recruiting a new adviser.

Facilities

The Mali Water and Disabilities Study will continue to meet in Frey 343. We will not need any additional working space.

Housekeeping

• Have you updated your project article? - Yes
• Have you updated project photographs on the cumulus database? - Yes

Budget

• Our budget is rather complicated and incredibly hard to follow. However, Lori Zimmerman always takes scrupulous care of recording our expenses and submitting them post site-team trip. According to the budget worksheet for our project as of 08/19/2009, we have a balance forward of over $46,000. We also do not have any student site teams planned for this year, although Dr Norman will be traveling to Ghana in September 2009. Our project is in a transition phase, but it is fairly certain that we will be continuing on to another 5-year phase of this project, with another grant from the Hilton Foundation. Details to follow. In conclusion, we will not be exceeding our budget and I will submit tentative overhead costs for the year ASAP, for administrative purposes.

Budget 09-10

For more information about this template, please read Help:Project planning article and Help:Template. Lzimmerman 15:51, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

	Approved on 2009 09-08
	Leaders Committee: 2009 09-08