Monitoring and Evaluation for Food Security and Nutrition Course

Introduction

In order to achieve a world free of hunger and malnutrition, it is vital to provide sustainable solutions that provide the largest impacts on development outcomes. Monitoring and Evaluation tools and techniques plays a key role in ensuring Food Security programs are designed, implemented as plan and that they improve the well-being of the target communities. This course equips the participants with adequate skills to develop and manage robust M&E systems for effective management of FSN programs. The learner is introduced to FSN indicators, tools and techniques for M&E in FSN.

Who Should Attend?

This is a general training is targeting variety of programme staff, management team members and thematic staff, Project Management Officials, government officials, programme managers; policy makers and programme implementers; development practitioners and activists and NGO and CSO members,  Research organizations among others for Agriculture support activities.  

No of Days

10 days

Course Objectives

• Gain skills in both qualitative and quantitate data collection and analysis in M&E for food security and nutrition programs.
• Strengthen their competence in the designing, monitoring, and evaluation of FSN programs.
• Gain insight into the principles of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment in food and nutrition security.
• Appreciate the need to integrate gender role in the development of FSN programs.
• Come up with clear ideas for improving monitoring, evaluation and impact assessments for food security and nutrition programs.

Course Content

Module 1: Fundamentals of Monitoring and Evaluation

• What is M&E?
• Significance of M&E
• Principles and concepts in M&E
• M&E and the project lifecycle
• Complementary roles of monitoring and evaluation

Module 2: Food Security and Nutrition M&E Frameworks

• Food security and nutrition conceptual frameworks
• Food security and nutrition results frameworks
• Logical framework analysis
• Food security and nutrition projects design using LogFrames

Module 3: Food Security and Nutrition Indicators

• Food security and nutrition indicators
• Indicator metrics
• Link between indicators and  results
• Indicator Matrix
• FSN indicator performance tracking

Module 4: M&E System design and M&E Planning in FSN

• Importance of an M&E Plan
• Components of an M&E Plan
• Design Principles for monitoring and evaluation
• Using M&E plan to implement M&E in a project
• M&E plan against performance management plan

Module 5: M&E Considerations for Sector Specific Programming

• Food availability
• Food access
• Food utilization
• Stability
• Market Information

Module 6: M&E Considerations for Health and Nutrition 

• Selection of indicators
• Integrated disease surveillance and nutrition surveillance systems
• Nutrition

Module 7: Data Management for M&E in FSN

• Sources of M&E data
• Qualitative data collection methods
• Quantitative data collection methods
• Participatory methods of data collection

Module 8: Data Analysis

• Data cleaning
• Qualitative data analysis
• Quantitative data analysis
• Data interpretation and reporting

Module 9: Gender consideration in M&E for FSN

• Gender integration during project activities design
• Gender indicators in food security and nutrition programs
• Cross-cutting gender issues in FSN
• Role of M&E in addressing gender
• Measure of gender outcomes

Module 10: Evaluation of Food Security and Nutrition Programs

• Determining evaluation points from results framework
• Components of evaluations, implementation and process evaluations
• Evaluation designs
• Performance evaluation process
• Evaluation findings, sharing, and dissemination

Module 11: Impact Assessment of FSN Programs

• Introduction to impact evaluation
• Impact assessment in program design
• Attribution in impact evaluation
• Impact evaluation methods

Module 12: M&E Results Use and Dissemination

• Use of M&E results to improve and strengthen FSN projects
• Use of M&E Lessons learned and best practices
• M&E reporting
• Design, monitoring, and evaluation of resilience interventions