Main Objective

To introduce participants to the basics of monitoring & evaluation, planning, implementation, stakeholder analysis, accountability, and learning.

Minor Objectives

All development projects need constant tracking of progress to capture essential quantitative and qualitative changes. Do you need to design a systematic way to collect, analyse, and use data so that genuine learning by all actors can take place?

This course teaches you practical steps to design M&E systems. It shows various monitoring and evaluation methodologies and tools, which are always practical and easy-to-use, so you can design an M&E system completely customized to your needs.

At the end of the course, you will:

• Describe the interplay and interdependent relationship between monitoring, evaluation, and learning
• Understand effective results-based M&E and how to apply it to your M&E framework
• Know how to turn M&E into a participative and systematic learning practice
• Be able to design and use key performance indicators and apply tools to monitor context
• Identify and collaborate with key stakeholders in MEL partners
• Use causal logic tools to guide program learning, decision-making, and implementation
• Define and address learning questions through the selection and use of quantitative and qualitative M&E methods
• Design effective learning strategies and approaches.
• Share and meaningfully discuss the implications of M&E data with key stakeholders
• Translate data into clear and relevant information for decision-making
• Use effective learning strategies and approaches to inform timely, evidence-based adjustments
• Strengthen your organization’s behavioral, operational practices, and management culture that reinforce learning and promote positive change towards better development results.