Monitoring and Evaluation for Governance course

Introduction

This is a professional development workshop that seeks to provide the participants with useful knowledge required to develop effective frameworks for monitoring, evaluating, and implementing development plans, programs, budges, and projects. 

Duration

5 Days

Course Objective:

•          Define Theory of Change and Critical pathway
•          Develop and design M&E framework/system for governance program.
•          Develop concise understanding of M&E concepts, principles, processes and framework for 
•          Develop insight in the different stages of the evaluation process and tools/ methodologies that are most appropriate in different types of evaluations.
•          PM&E tools for enhancing the capacities of decentralization at local and national levels and for boosting accountability systems at municipal levels.
•          Identify and develop governance performance indicators
•          Understand how the log frame approach promotes evidence based on policy making

Course content

Module1 introduction

•          Definition of Monitoring and Evaluation
•          Importance of Monitoring and Evaluation
•          Purposes of Monitoring and Evaluation

Module 2: Monitoring and evaluation

•          M&E in the policy process
•          M&E in the planning process
•          The Government-wide M&E System
•          Important institutions with a role in M&E
•          Departments at the center of government on the national
•          Department of Public Service and Administration
•          Department of Provincial and Local Government
•          Available Statistics

Module 3: Evaluation Perspectives

•          evaluation perspective
•          The Balanced Scorecard
•          Programme performance
•          Financial &Governance
•          Human Resource Management (HRM)
•          Ethics perspective

Module 4: Values

•          monitoring and evaluation
•          standards of performance from values
•          values and principles governing public administration
•          principles expressing some dimension of public service performance

Module 5: Evaluating Programme Performance

•          Programme evaluation
•          Logic models
•          Results-Based Management
•          Theory-based evaluation

Module 6: Implementation

•          Focusing monitoring and evaluation
•          Designing monitoring frameworks
•          Framing evaluation questions
•          Examples of monitoring and evaluation of different dimensions