Country: South Africa
Registration deadline: 01 Apr 2019
Starting date: 01 Apr 2019
Ending date: 12 Apr 2019
Delivered by our practitioners with extensive participatory field experience, this is the leading M&E course for development professionals. Those responsible for project or programme-level M&E benefit from the latest M&E thinking and practice, including results approaches. This course will enable you to bring the learning into practice and to understand the difference between data, information and knowledge which is a key aspect to ensure strategic decision making.
Through a mix of practical activities, theory and examples of effective practice you will learn how to:
- decide what and how to monitor with different stakeholders
- clarify key results at the programme-level using logic models
- plan a project using the logical framework
- develop indicators and targets
- participatory methods for data collection and analysis
- design and manage evaluation
- use your M&E findings to stimulate learning, improvement and stakeholder buy-in.
- develop and work with a practical M&E system
Day 1
Week 1: Principles of M&E for Results
The changing role and practice of M&E
- M&E fundamentals
- results approaches: outputs, outcomes and impact
- relate M&E to your programme and project cycle
- identify stakeholders and their differing needs and roles
Day 2
Results framework
- develop logic models
- work with and beyond logframes
Day 3
Developing M&E frameworks
- criteria for indicators
- develop project indicators
- identify means of verification
Day 4
Gathering data/information/knowledge
- quantitative and qualitative approaches and instruments
- data organisation, quality assurance and analysis
- design baseline, evaluation and impact studies
Day 5
M&E system and plan
- prepare M&E plan
- M&E system
- week 1 learning synthesis
Day 6
Week 2: Embedding key M&E practices and apply these to your live work cases or a local organisation
- situation and context analysis
- critical overview of logframes
Day 7
Evaluation techniques
- design evaluations for stakeholder benefit and use
- choice and use of qualitative and quantitative collection instruments
- making use of M&E data/information/knowledge
Day 8
Participatory data collection methods
- Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques
- timeline exercises
- focus group discussions
- key informant interviews
Day 9
Learning synthesis and reflection
- innovative M&E approaches (Theory of Change)
- participant presentations preparation
Day 10
Using what you have learnt
- participant presentations
- embedding learning for personal and organisational benefit
- becoming change agents for M&E.
Fee information:£2350 for more information, please go to https://www.imainternational.com/how-we-work/training/monitoring-and-evaluation-for-results-10-days
How to register:
For more information please visit us at www.imainternational.com, email us on post@imainternational.com or call us on +44 (0) 1273 833030.
We also run this course as in-house training for organisations.