Duration: 10 days
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Delivered by our practitioners with extensive participatory field experience, this is the leading Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for Results course for development professionals. The course addresses M&E for the entire results chain, including the all-important outcomes. This 10-day course with 5-day option covers the key principles and embeds the practice of M&E for results.
Why choose this course
This course brings learning into practice and enables you to understand the importance of using information and knowledge for evidence-based strategic decision making. M&E for Results is for managers and monitoring and evaluation officers who need to supervise, manage, plan and implement M&E in their projects and programmes. No prior knowledge of M&E is necessary.
What you will learn
Through a mix of practical activities, theory and examples of effective practice you will learn how to:
- decide what and how to monitor with different stakeholders
- clarify key results at the programme-level using logic models
- plan a project using the logical framework
- develop indicators and targets
- use participatory methods for data collection and analysis
- combine qualitative and quantitative approaches to gather and interpret data
- design and manage evaluation
- use your M&E findings to stimulate learning, improvement and stakeholder buy-in
- develop and work with a practical M&E system.
Daily Course Objectives
Day 1
Week 1: Principles of M&E for ResultsThe changing role and practice of M&E
- M&E fundamentals
- results approaches: outputs, outcomes and impact
- relate M&E to your programme and project cycle
- identify stakeholders and their differing needs and roles.
Day 2
Results framework- develop logic models
- work with and beyond logframes.
Day 3
Developing M&E frameworks- criteria for indicators
- develop project indicators
- identify means of verification.
Day 4
Gathering data/information- quantitative and qualitative approaches and instruments
- data organisation, quality assurance and analysis
- design baseline, evaluation and impact studies
Day 5
M&E system and plan- prepare M&E plan
- M&E system
- week 1 learning synthesis.
Day 6
Week 2: Embedding key M&E practices and applying these to a local organisation- practice data gathering tools
- use different tools to gather data in live context
- field work reflection.
Day 7
Theory of Change- develop a theory of change from the live data gathered during fieldwork
- relate theory of change thinking to M&E.
Day 8
Information for decision-making- review monitoring data
- use M&E information and evidence for decision-making.
Day 9
Fostering a learning culture- identify ways to foster a learning culture
- become M&E change agents and champions
- coaching and preparation for participant presentations.
Day 10
Using what you have learnt- participant presentations
- embedding learning for personal and organisational benefit
- becoming change agents for M&E.