Monitoring And Evaluation for Development

PURPOSE

This course focuses on giving participants the tools they need to effectively monitor and evaluate their work. Skills in monitoring and evaluation are in high demand in the contemporary, cutthroat business environment. The participant will thus graduate from this course with monitoring and evaluation abilities that will provide them a competitive edge in the commercial market.

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course the participants will be able to:

  • Create a system for monitoring and evaluating
  • Gain insight into multilateral corporations to better understand management of operations.
  • Learn about metrics including precision, validity, dependability, and credibility.
  • Learn how to use a package for data analysis (Stata)
  • Create a data collection strategy.
  • Recognize how to use GIS and GPS for data collection
  • Interact with people from all around the world who share your desire to develop your monitoring and assessment skills.

Duration: 10 Days

ÂTarget Audience

The training is intended for researchers, project managers for NGOs, government ministries, financial institutions, national statistics officers, and volunteers who are interested in learning about monitoring and evaluation.

 

COURSE CONTENT

TOPIC 1: Fundamentals of M & E

Introduction To M & E

M & E Fundamentals

Including M&E Throughout The Project Cycle

Identifying The Problems M & E Professionals Encounter

 

TOPIC 2: Trends towards M&E that is result-based

Principles of Managing for Development Results (MDFR) Introduction to MFDR Results-based management

 

TOPIC 3: M&E introduction with a focus on results

learning about results-based management (RBM)

Results bases components M&E production

Cycle of M&E depending on results

measuring outcomes

Monitoring, indicators, and performance evaluation

 

TOPIC 4: Situation analysis

preliminary research and analysis

Explanatory examples

Situational analysis tools

 

TOPIC 5: Baseline assessment

Knowing the baseline study

Relevance of baseline research

Initial data and techniques for gathering it

Situation assessments and baseline studies differ from one another

 

TOPIC 6: System design for M&E

M&E impact pathway frameworks

The theory of change

Procedure for performance evaluation

Instruments for performance evaluation

 

TOPIC 7: Methods of assessment

Case study, economic assessment

Dissemination of results

 

TOPIC 8: GIS tools for monitoring and evaluation of development programs

Regional strategies

The benefits of GIS for M & E Analysis and mapping of GIS data