PURPOSE
Planning and project management are greatly aided by participatory monitoring and assessment. Making wise decisions will be made easier thanks to this course’s improved participant grasp of participatory monitoring and evaluation. The principles, components, and methods of participatory monitoring and evaluation will be covered in this course.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of this course the participants will be able to:
- Learn what participatory monitoring and evaluation means.
- Describe the PME’s guiding principles and components.
- Identify the PME tools and methods that are being used.
- Recognize how to utilize GIS and GPS to map PME data.
Duration: 5 Days
Target Audience
The training is designed for professionals with at least two years of experience in organizing and managing activities, such as researchers, extension specialists, managers, advocacy workers, and community facilitators.
Course Content
TOPIC 1: Introduction to Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PME)
Understanding PME Participatory M&E objectives, applications, benefits, and drawbacks of PME PME principle
TOPIC 2: PME creation and implementation
Data gathering
Data evaluation
Establishing the goal and key performance indicators for pme planning information sharing and choosing the appropriate course of action
TOPIC 3: PME structures
A tactical framework
Logical structure
TOPIC 4: Planning PME
Creation of PME plans
Putting PME plans into action
PME integration with program objectives
TOPIC 5: PME methods and equipment
Social indicators and statistics
Appraisal of Rural Participation
Photographing evidence with SARAR and self-evaluation instruments
TOPIC 6: signs of PME
Meaning of an indicator
Factors to take into account while choosing PME indicators
The creation of indicators
Varieties of indications
TOPIC 7: Active Participation Research (PAR)
Separating action research from social research
Planning and mapping out research
Community-based baseline
TOPIC 8: data analysis for PME
Qualitative analysis of data
Community dissemination
TOPIC 9: Tools and procedures for crowdsourcing information
Data validation
NVivo use in qualitative analysis.
Assessing the impact of participation
Acquiring knowledge of participatory impact assessment
TOPIC 10: Participatory impact assessment’s eight stages
Implementing participatory impact assessment: tools and techniques
PME mapping with GIS and GPS
Participatory GIS PME indicator mapping (Quantum GIS)