Working with Logframes

Build your confidence to design and use logical frameworks

This programme introduces the core technique used by most development organisations to plan, track and evaluate individual projects. You will leave the course with a thorough understanding of how to design and adapt logical frameworks.

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Why choose this course

This is a new course to help project staff and non-M&E specialists increase their skills in using the logical framework and understand its strengths and weaknesses compared to other approaches.

For a more comprehensive grounding in the underlying principles and pracetical tools, M&E specialists also choose our popular 10-day Monitoring and Evaluation course.

What you will learn

Through short presentations and interactive exercises based on your own work, you will be guided through the steps to design and use a logical framework.

You will learn how to:

• Design projects that address the most pressing problems of the individuals and communities you work with
• Link activities to outputs, purposes and goals
• Create a strong foundation for an effective M&E system
• Develop confidence and ownership of your M&E system among those who deliver it

What our participants say

This new course was developed in response to requests from M&E specialists who had attended out Monitoring & Evaluation course. This is what some of those M&E specialists have to say about our training:

“A well organised and quality training course with great content combining knowledge with practice and fun”
Esinu Abbey, IT Co-ordinator, Community Water and Sanitation Agency, Ghana

"This course has broadened my perspective and helped to logicall organise my previous knowledge. I definitely look forward to future training courses with IMA."
Juliana Abude, Programme Coordinator, Partnership for Transforming Health Systems 2, Nigeria

Daily Course Objectives

• Day 1
  Overview and first steps
  
  

  • Understanding the tools for building a logical framework
  
  
  • Developing a problem tree
  
  
  • Formulating statements of objectives and linking them in result chains
• Day 2
  Objectives and indicators
  
  

  • Identifying the environmental conditions necessary to progress from low to high level objective
  
  
  • Assessing different types of indicator
  
  
  • Developing pro-poor and gender-sensitive indicators
  
  
  • Identifying the main types of monitoring activity and fitting them to indicators
• Day 3
  Strengths, weaknesses, design alternatives and wider options
  
  

  • Evaluating existing logical frameworks using quality criteris
  
  
  • Analysing the overall strengths and weaknesses of the logical framework approach
  
  
  • Understanding how leading development agencies adapt and customise logical frameworks
  
  
  • Exploring alternatives to the logical framework

Quick Facts

This scheduled course can also be tailored for your organisation. To find out how our tailor-made training can help your organisation call Nick on +44(0)1273 833030 or complete the training enquiry form.

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