WORKSHOP ON MONITORING AND EVALUATION FOR HEALTH PROGRAMS

WORKSHOP ON MONITORING AND EVALUATION FOR HEALTH PROGRAMS

Start Date: 14/02/2022 End Date: 18/02/2022 for 5 days

Organizer: Skills for Africa Training Institute 

Course fee: USD 1,200

INTRODUCTION

Making informed decisions, improving effectiveness and health programs is achieves in the health sector via the use of proper monitoring and evaluation. M 7 E ensures the implementation of health programs to achieve set goals. This course will benefit participants by equipping them with the M & E skills n planning health programs and improving performance. This course will focus on various sectors of health programs namely HIV/AIDs, STDs, TB, family planning, maternal health, child health, and reproductive health.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course the participants will be able to:

• Learn the application of M & E in health programs
• Using a logical framework to design a health project
• Establish the indicators and targets for every result level
• Learn to track all indicators throughout the project life cycle
• Evaluate health projects with respect to the planned outcomes
• Establish and utilize M & E systems
• Create a plan on monitoring and evaluation

DURATION

5 Days

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The course targets researchers, development professionals, managers, project professionals, decision makers responsible for projects and programs in the health sector. 

COURSE OUTLINE

Introduction to Strategic Information in Health Programs

• Information in health programs
• Strategic information in health programs
• Strategic information utilization
• Project life cycle and Strategic information
• Decision making

M&E System in Health Programs

• Importance of M & E system in health programs
• Utilization of M & E system in health programs
• M & E system in health programs content

M&E introduction

• Understanding Monitoring and Evaluation
• Importance of M & E
• Principle and components of M & E
• M&E in program lifecycle
• Roles of M & E

Frameworks of M & E

• Logical Framework Analysis (LFA)
• Results Frameworks
• Conceptual Frameworks
• LogFrame - Design of projects using LogFrame

Indicators of M&E Health

• selection of Indicators
• Indicator metrics
• Correlating indicators to results
• Indicator matrix
• indicators tracking

M&E Gender perception for Health Programs

• Importance of gender in M&E
• Integration of gender to health program
• Gender indicators
• Gathering gender
• Analysis of M & E for gender perception
• Project appraisal for gender perception
• Challenges of integrating gender and M & E in health programs

Evaluation of Health Programs

• Evaluation process
• Evaluation designs
• Process of performance evaluation
• Findings and sharing of evaluation

Impact Evaluation in Health Programs

• Importance of impact evaluation
• Attribution of health project
• IE counterfactual
• Methods of IE

Results and dissemination of M & E

• Utilization of health program data
• M & E practices
• M & E reports
• M & E results

GENERAL NOTES

• This course is delivered by our seasoned trainers who have vast experience as expert professionals in the respective fields of practice. The course is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group works and case studies.
• Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.
• Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be issued with a certificate.
• We can also do this as tailor-made course to meet organization-wide needs. Contact us to find out more: training @skillsforafrica. org
•  The training will be conducted at SKILLS FOR AFRICA TRAINING INSTITUTE IN NAIROBI KENYA.
• The training fee covers tuition fees, training materials, lunch and training venue. Accommodation and airport transfer are arranged for our participants upon request.
• Payment should be sent to our bank account before start of training and proof of payment sent to: training@ skillsforafrica. org