Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation Course

This AJT course is aimed at providing an overview of results-based monitoring and evaluation methods with practical applications of tools and methods. This course will provide participants with M&E tools, techniques and resources needed for planning, organizing, and/or managing programs and projects. Through exercises and group work, participants will learn the links between results-based measurement, monitoring and program evaluation. Time will be allotted for practical exercises and informal question and answer sessions around common M&E problem areas. Participants will also be provided with additional Resources for further study and research in the M&E field.

• Planners, Monitors & Evaluators
• Project Managers
• Program Managers
• Trainers
• Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

• Participants will gain confidence to apply the acquired skills and knowledge to their M&E work
• Participants will be able to share and learn from other country experiences to strengthen their M&E systems.
• Participants will have an improved understanding of how M&E can improve the quality of their projects while promoting learning and accountability
• Participants will also learn how to be better managers and consumers of evaluations conducted by others

• Definition of M&E
• Why is M&E important
• M&E and the project cycle management
• Step to implementing M&E in a project/programme
• Type of evaluations
• Methods and tools for M&E
• Challenges in M&E

• Managing for Development Results (MfDR)
• MfDR core principles
• MfDR and Result based management (RBM)
• What is RBM?
• Emergence of RBM and its development
• Seven phases of RBM
• Performance measurement, performance indicators and performance monitoring
• Logical framework and results framework

• Result based M&E outline
• Essential actions to build result based M&E
• Result based M&E cycle
• The power of measuring results

• Formative research
• Situation analysis
• Needs assessment
• Tools to conduct a needs assessment
• Illustrative examples of situation analysis and mappings

• The result chain
• Impact path ways
• Logical framework vs Theory of change
• Developing a theory of change
• Components of a theory of change

• Why are M&E frameworks important?
• Considerations when developing an M&E framework
• Steps in developing and M&E framework
• Results frameworks
• Logical frameworks

• What are indicators?
• Characteristics of good indicators
• Challenges and considerations when selecting indicators
• How many indicators are enough?
• Process versus result/impact indicators
• Process indicators
• Result indicators
• Output indicators
• Outcome indicators
• Impact indicators
• Developing internationally comparable indicators

• What does an M&E plan include?
• Important considerations for an M&E plan
• When should M&E be undertaken?
• When monitoring activities should be carried out?
• When should evaluations be conducted?
• Can M&E plans be amended?

• Evaluation questions
• Steps to developing evaluation questions
• Illustrative examples
• Designing evaluations for stakeholder benefit and use
• Choice and use of qualitative and quantitative collection instruments
• Participatory data analysis
• Communicating findings meaningfully for comprehensive stakeholder learning

• What is baseline data and how is it collected?
• Needs assessment versus baseline study
• Questions to ask about a baseline plan
• What kind of baseline data is necessary, useful and practical to collect?
• Examples of baseline surveys

• Quantitative data
• Methods for collecting quantitative data
• Challenges and limitations of quantitative methods
• Qualitative data
• Methods for collecting qualitative data
• Pre/post intervention focus group discussions
• Pre/post intervention interviews
• Illustration and example with selected participatory methods

• Developing a communications strategy based on evaluation findings.
• Communicating findings to bring about change.
• Presenting M&E results using different media.

• Different uses of M&E results
• To whom to give feedback
• When to give feedback
• How to give feed back
• Embedding learning for personal and organisational benefit
• Becoming change agents for M&E.
• Becoming an M&E champion