Comprehensive Program on Feasibility Study for Projects

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
14 Jun 2026 Manama, Bahrain $ 4,500 Register
06 Sept 2026 Dubai, UAE $ 3,900 Register

Comprehensive Program on Feasibility Study for Projects

Introduction

This course will discuss;

  • Defining feasibility studies and studying markets.
  • Social and national profitability.
  • Marketing study.
  • Technical study.
  • Financial study and profit analysis for the project.
  • The use of Computer Model for Feasibility Analysis and Reporting (COMFAR), a feasibility studies’ program developed by the UNIDO.

Objectives

    This package is designed to enable trainees to:

    • Achieve a wise investment decision from the individual and social perspectives.
    • Select investment projects with the highest possible net profit.
    • Help economic policymakers in developing countries to evaluate available investment opportunities.
    • Obtain appropriate licenses and approvals.
    • Applying all above with COMFAR III Software

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

  • This course is targeted at Governmental employees.
  • Managers and heads of departments.
  • Financial, operations, and planning specialists.
  • Business owners and/ or new investors.

Course Outline

Day 1:

  • Introduction to feasibility studies
  • Applicable rules and regulation
  • Areas of feasibility studies
  • Difference between pre‐feasibility and detailed studies
  • Social, cultural, religious and location study
  • (Marketing study)
  • Segmenting the market
  • Studying the potential market and the potential demand

Day 2:

  • Potential demand indicators
  • Estimation of the demand gap
  • Estimation of the implicit demand gap
  • Other indicators of potential market
  • Projection of market demand
  • Simple linear regression
  • Quadratic linear regression

Day 3:

  • Estimation of demand for a new product
  • Estimation of demand changes caused by population changes
  • Estimation of demand changes caused by income changes
  • Estimation of demand changes caused by price changes
  • Estimation of demand changes caused by advertising changes
  • (Case study applied)
  • (Technical/Engineering study)
  • Natural environment
  • Technical know how selection scheme
  • Project flow chart and process mapping
  • Final output specifications
  • Equipments and accessories costing centre
  • Manpower costing centre
  • Material costing centre
  • Utilities and consumables
  • Project life cycle
  • Location calculation scheme for every cost centre
  • Project time plan (implementation scheduling)

Day 4: (Financial study)

  • Investment profitability analysis
  • Simple rate of return
  • Pay‐back period
  • Financial analysis
  • Net present value (NPV)
  • Internal rate of return (IRR)
  • Financial appraisal of the project

Day 5:

  • Full detailed case study and exercise on cost estimation, financial projections, Breakeven/sensitivity, and IRR calculation.
  • The use of Computer Model for Feasibility Analysis and Reporting (COMFAR), a feasibility studies’ program developed by the UNIDO

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