Techniques for need analysis.

Marmaduke

The first step to implement a project that produces a positive impact is to determine the needs that must be tackled. Projects aim to solve problems of the beneficiary people or organizations, in favour of which the programming choices have planned to allocate resources in the form of programs or projects. The designed plan must start from a detailed description of the main problem that the project intends to address and, subsequently, the call for tenders in which it intends to participate. Only by identifying a real need is possible to write a project that has a positive impact on society. An essential method to achieve this objective is represented by the model of threes; at first, we design the tree of problems, in which the cause-effect connection of a certain problem is shown. Subsequently, we define the tree of objectives, namely how we want to solve the previous problems. The projects Marmaduke is involved, which concern musical and cultural activities, give a solid contribution in this sense. As an example, we may consider the Swinging Europe project. Starting from a real necessity, the lack of a frame of swing musicians around Europe, the project intends to build a network between all European schools and associations, with the purpose to spread the swing culture.