Advanced Monitoring and Evaluation for Development Results Course
Details
Organizer: Foscore Development Center (www.fdc-k.org)
INTRODUCTION
This 2 weeks training is design to impact job oriented skills for monitoring and evaluation that are highly demanded in the development industry. After following this course you will be capable of designing and managing Monitoring and Evaluation Systems which meet the standards of donor agencies.It is aimed at providing an overview of monitoring and evaluation methods for development results 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 allocated 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.
DURATION
2 Weeks
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Learn how to select data collection strategies and get acquainted with key issues about measures such as credibility, reliability, validity and precision
- Benefit from a hands-on-approach based on real life cases enabling you to immediately apply the knowledge shared throughout course
- Work in groups together with professionals from around the world, in a multicultural and diverse environment
- Gain insights on how multilateral agencies manage their operations
- Get access to all the resources necessary to start your own training program on Monitoring & Evaluation
- Build a Monitoring & Evaluation system throughout the course for a real project
- Use data analysis software package (Stata).
- Use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and GPS to gather data, collaborate and share information.
- Communicate findings to stimulate learning and reflection.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This course targets Project Management Officials from NGO’s, National Statistics Offices, Education Researchers, Government ministries, National Institutes and Planning Ministries, Central banks, and University Researchers among others.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED
M&E fundamentals
- Introduction to M&E?
- Key components of M&E
- Relating Monitoring and evaluation to your project cycle
- Identifying the challenges facing Monitoring and evaluation professionals
- Steps to implementing M&E in a project/programme
- Type of evaluations
- Methods and tools for M&E
- Challenges in M&E
Trends towards result based M&E
- Managing for Development Results (MfDR)
- MfDR core principles
- MfDR and Result based management (RBM)
- Defining RBM
- Emergence of RBM and its development
- Seven phases of RBM
- Performance measurement, performance indicators and performance monitoring
- Logical framework and results framework
Introduction to result based M&E
- What is RBM?
- Results based M&E outline
- Result based M&E cycle
- Performance measurement, performance indicators and performance monitoring
- Essential actions to build result based M&E
- The power of measuring results
Situation analyses/Needs assessment
- Formative research
- Situation analysis
- Needs assessment
- Tools to conduct a needs assessment
- Illustrative examples of situation analysis and mappings
Baseline assessment
- 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
Designing the M&E system
- The result chain
- Impact path ways
- Logical framework vs Theory of change
- Developing a theory of change
- Components of a theory of change
M&E frameworks
- The importance of M&E frameworks
- Considerations when developing an M&E framework
- Steps in developing and M&E framework
- Results frameworks
- Logical frameworks
M&E plans
- 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?
Designing indicators and evidence
- Defining indicators
- Characteristics of good indicators
- Challenges and considerations when selecting indicators
- Knowing how many indicators are enough
- Process versus result/impact indicators
- Process indicators
- Result indicators
- Output indicators
- Outcome indicators
- Impact indicators
- Developing internationally comparable indicators
Performance monitoring
- Definition and process
- Tools used
Evaluation techniques
- 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
Gender M&E
- Introduction to M&E in Gender and development
- Prioritizing gender in M&E plans
- Exploring gender in M&E plans
- Selecting indicators to measure gender related outputs and outcomes
- Gender considerations for data collection, interpretation and use