Monitoring and Evaluation for Agriculture and Rural Development Course
Details
Introduction
Agriculture forms the backbone of many developing countries and is the main economic activity for the rural communities. Since its modest beginnings, the agricultural sector has become increasingly complex and multi-faceted. The challenge agriculture faces today is how to feed the world population in an equitable manner while protecting the environment from irreversible negative changes. Monitoring and Evaluation tools and techniques plays a key role in ensuring Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD) projects are designed, implemented as planned to aid in ending hunger and poverty.
This course equips the participants with adequate skills to develop and manage robust M&E systems for effective management of ARD projects and programs. The learner is introduced to M&E frameworks indicators, tools and techniques for M&E for ARD.
Who should attend
This course is designed for researchers, project staff, development practitioners, managers and decision makers who are responsible for project, program or organization-level M&E in Agriculture and Rural Development programs.
Course Duration
5 Days
Course Objective
By the end of this course the participants will be able to:
- Understand monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for ARD programs
- Design ARD projects using logical framework analysis approach
- Define different ARD indicators
- Track performance indicators over the life of the project
- Evaluate ARD programs against objectives and targets
- Understand gender role in M&E in ARD programs
- Conduct impact evaluations of ARD programs
Course Content
Introduction to M&E
- Definition of Monitoring and Evaluation
- Why Monitoring and Evaluation is important
- Key principles and concepts in M&E
- M&E in project lifecycle
- Complementary roles of Monitoring and Evaluation
Agriculture and Rural Development Policy issues
- Sustainable agriculture and rural development
- Economic contribution of agriculture
- Link between agriculture and rural development
- Agriculture and food security
M&E Frameworks in Agriculture and Rural Development
- ARD Conceptual Frameworks
- ARD Results Frameworks
- Logical Framework Analysis (LFA)
- LogFrame - Design of ARD projects using LogFrame
Agriculture and Rural Development Indicators
- Indicator metrics
- Linking indicators to results
- Indicator Matrix
- ARD indicator performance tracking
- Sector-wide indicators for Agriculture and Rural Development
- Specific indicators for Sub-sectors of Agriculture and Rural Development
- Indicators for Thematic Areas related to Agriculture and Rural Development
M&E System and M&E Planning in ARD
- Importance of an M&E Plan
- Documenting M&E System in the M&E Plan
- Components of an M&E Plan-Monitoring, Evaluation, Data management, Reporting
- Using M&E Plan to implement M&E in a Project
Data Management for M&E in Agriculture and Rural Development
Gender integration in M&E for Agriculture and Rural Development
Performance Evaluation of Agricultural and Rural Development programs
Impact Evaluations for Agriculture and Rural Development
M&E Results Use and Dissemination
Certification
Participants will be issued with Upskill certificate upon completion of this course.
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