Course On Results Based Monitoring And Evaluation

Who should attend?

• • Government & NGOs
  • Food security staff & experts in various sectors like Education & Health
  • Rural Development staff in community development tasked with implementation and developing food security policy.
  • Agriculture, Food security, rural development and Nutrition experts.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• To enhance participants understanding of M&E theory, concepts, methods and tools
• To enable participants develop knowledge and skills to monitor and evaluate programs/projects.
• To train participants on how to use outputs and outcomes (aggregate results) from MIS database in making better management decisions.

EXPECTED OUTCOME

• Improved understanding of M&E theory, concepts, methods and tools among participants
• Increased knowledge and skills of participants to monitor and evaluate projects/programs.
• Increased motivation of program/project Managers to use outputs and outcomes (aggregate reports) from MIS database in making better management decisions

Introduction to Result Based M&E

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

What is Result Based Monitoring and evaluation?

• 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

Trends towards Result Based 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

Situation analyses/Needs assessment

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

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

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

Designing indicators and evidence

• 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

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?

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

Baseline Assessments

• 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

Data Collection and Analysis

• 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

Use of M&E Results

• 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 organizational benefit
• Becoming change agents for M&E.

Communicating M&E information

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

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

Key training methods to be used in this workshop will include lectures, group discussion and presentations, hands-on exercises and case studies. Participants are encouraged to come with case studies to share and to be used as material for practice.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Delegates attending this course should be proficient in English and have basic computer skills.
ACCREDITATION
Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be issued with an Alexander James Certificate.
TRAINING VENUE
The trainings will be held at Alexander James Training Centers.
ACCOMMODATION
We have more than 20 hotels within 5 KM radius of our training center. Accommodation is arranged upon request.
Email:  info@ajtraining.co.za  Mob: +254 727 446 544 Tel: +254 20 2000 957
SELF PACED/TAILOR- MADE
Upon request this course will be customized to fit your organizations objectives and delivered at your preferred location.
PAYMENT
Payment should be made to ALEXANDER JAMES TRAINING account through bank transfer or deposit ONE week before the training date.
Send proof of payment to info@ajtraining.co.za
CANCELLATION POLICY
Payment for the all courses includes a registration fee, which is non-refundable, and equals 15% of the total sum of the course fee.
1.    Participants may cancel attendance 7 days or more prior to the training commencement date.
2.    No refunds will be made 7 days or less to the training commencement date. However, participants who are unable to attend may opt to attend a similar training at a later date, or send a substitute participant provided the participation criteria have been met.
NB: THIS COURSE OUTLINE IS ONLY FOR GUIDANCE PURPOSES AND MAY CHANGE DEPENDING ON CHANGES IN THE COURSE
COURSE DATES: 06-03-2017 TO 10-03-2017
DURATION: 5 DAYS
COURSE FEE:

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