Over the past 10 years, PMD Pro has reached 27 thousand professionals, working at 1,250 organizations, in 165 countries. This is the number of professionals that we can acknowledge because they have taken the exam – but we are sure that many more project managers and their teams are applying the PMD Pro best practices. This large community has motivated and helped PM4NGOs and its partners to go beyond the project management level.
PMD Pro has given birth to a family of best practices and methodologies: Program Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Financial Management, PMD Pro Starter, and supplemental materials like the Theory of Change and the Quick Reading Guides.
Informally, we refer to this group of guides and methodologies as the DPro Family.
To better align with the growing DPro family of methodologies and Guides, we rebranded our methodology PgMD Pro to Program DPro. Next year, we will also rebrand PMD Pro to become Project DPro (with a permanent reference to the original brand PMD Pro).
Rebranding is about changing perception. It is more commonly described as a change in how you look, sound, and write. This change will allow practitioners to better recognize all current and future DPro practices as member of one family.
Interesting to learn.
As a Local Founder of an NGO, which of the DPro is recommended for me to be certified on.
Dear Segun Abiri,
Thank you for your contact.
We would recommend starting by taking the PMD Pro training and certification.
Please take a look at the following page that explains in five steps how you can become certified:
https://www.pm4ngos.org/how-to-become-pmd-pro-certified/
If you would like to take a training course before the exam, please check out training partners directory:
https://www.pm4ngos.org/training-orgs/
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions.