South Africa: Monitoring and Evaluation for Results

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

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We also run this course as in-house training for organisations.