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
Venue
Date
Application Deadline
Fee
Bangkok
18-22 Nov 19
15 Nov 19
£2000
Please note if your sponsor is registered in the UK, VAT will be added to this course fee at 20%.
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 stimulate learning, improvement and stakeholder buy-in
- develop and work with a practical M&E system.
Using the results approach for projects and programmes
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.