Monitoring and Evaluation
The number one course for M&E in development
Come and join our most popular course. Identify the key elements needed to make your M&E system work. Learn to develop, maintain and implement an effective M&E system. Including SMART* indicators, data collection, analysis and communicating results for learning purposes.
Emphasis on participatory methods to promote stake holder commitment for sustainability. Take part in an real-time or simulated evaluation exercise enabling you to put into practice the concepts and tools presented, so as to maximise and contextualise learning for you.
Course Outline
- Understand and analyse multiple stakeholder needs
- Use the logframe approach effectively as an active tool for M&E
- Develop and use relevant SMART indicators
- Learn what to monitor, how, when and who for
- Visit a local organisation to understand real challenges facing those managing M&E systems
- Combine qualitative and quantitative tools to gather and interpret data
- Engage in a meaningful, real-life evaluation of a local organisation or a simulation to maximise learning
- Learn to manage people and processes in evaluations
- Establish a baseline and assess your project’s impact
- Get top tips for communicating your findings to stimulate learning and reflection
- Share challenges in monitoring, evaluation and learning
Benefits for your Organisation
- Improved M&E practices to utilise resources more effectively
- Understanding of a project’s processes, outputs, outcomes and impacts
- Increased stakeholder commitment using participatory approaches
- Increased accountability: upwards, downwards and sideways
- More effective decision making and learning
What our participants say
“IMA has an excellent combination of good trainers and staff. A well organised quality training with great content, that combines knowledge with practice and fun. A rich blend of international participation and shared experience. It enhances team work and promotes good partnership. With IMA training, you become an agent for positive change.”
Esinu Abbey,
Community Water and Sanitation Agency Ghana
Daily Course Objectives
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Day 1
- Define working terms for ‘monitoring’ and ‘evaluation’ and establish the purpose of M&E as a driving force of development action
- Analyse how the purpose of M&E varies in different organisational types
- Use specific tools to identify and analyse the stakeholders of your projects or M&E processes
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Day 2
- Converting a problem tree into an objectives tree
- Construct a Logical Framework successfully, understanding the linkages within the logframe matrix
- Define the features of qualitative and quantitative indicators
- Identify the four steps for developing a SMART* indicator set
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Day 3
- How to include pro-poor and gender sensitive indicators in logframes
- Recognising the main types of monitoring activities
- Explain the functions and features of monitoring systems
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Day 4
- Key features of an M&E system for a project
- What are the steps involved in developing an M&E system
- Reflect on critical learning elements
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Day 5
- Distinguish between qualitative and quantitative data
- Be familiar with a range of quantitative tools for gathering information
- Define key concepts in Participatory M&E and discuss how it may be integrated into the development process
- Get to grips with a range of tools for gathering information
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Day 6
- Explore a range of tools for preparing and processing data
- Evaluations: assigning key tasks and roles appropriately
- Describe the components covered by evaluation terms of reference
- Review a selection of frameworks and tools for gender analysis
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Day 7
- Establishing baseline data for your project
- Impact assessments: what factors need to be taken into account?
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Day 8
- Design and carry out a real-time evaluation of a local project OR carry out a simulated impact assessment exercise
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Day 9
- Communicating findings to bring about change
- Presenting M&E results: deciding what communication media to use
- Present clear and concise messages
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Day 10
- Introducing new concepts and approaches successfully
- Building your effectiveness as an internal consultant
- Describe a structured approach for considering how to introduce change
- How to sustain new ways of working
- Present findings and recommendations
Quick Facts
- Duration:
- 10 days
- Course Fee:
- £2800
- Venues:
- Brighton 20 Sep-01 Oct
Cape Town 18-29 Oct
Kuala Lumpur 08-19 Nov
- Application deadline:
- 09 Aug
06 Sep
27 Sep
- Tailor-made:
- Have this course tailored to your specific needs, at a time and place it suits you. Call or e-mail us for a free quote, or complete our online enquiry form.
