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Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for Results addresses M&E for the entire results chain, including the all-important outcomes. This 10-day course with 5-day option covers the principles, and embeds the practice of M&E for results. You can attend the M&E for Results 10 day course and later attend our Theory of Change or Leadership and Management for International Development training (within a 12 month period) and receive our Certificate in Applied Evaluation or Certificate in Development Management.
Duration: 5 days
The price of the course excludes VAT which may be added depending on where you live and status of organisation.
Why choose this course
Delivered by our practitioners with extensive participatory field experience, this is the leading M&E course for development professionals providing latest M&E thinking and practice, including results approaches. The course is for managers and monitoring and evaluation officers who need to supervise, manage, plan and implement M&E in their projects and programmes. This course brings learning into practice and enables you to understand the difference between data, information and knowledge which is a key aspect to ensure strategic decision making. 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 improve learning and stakeholder engagement
- develop and work with a practical M&E system.
Using the results approach for projects and programmes
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.