This four week course aims to equip participants with competencies in monitoring and evaluation of health and development interventions at project, programme and organisational level.
The course intends to give participants the following skills:
- Concise understanding of the concepts, principles and processes of monitoring and evaluation
- Knowledge and skills in designing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems
- Competence in formulation of change-oriented indicators and change monitoring frameworks
- Knowledge and skills in using different tools and methods for data collection
- Competence in application of qualitative and quantitative data analysis tools and methods, effective report writing and presentation
The course aims to cover the following content:
Part One
- Conceptual understanding of monitoring and evaluation
Areas of coverage
- Operational definitions of monitoring, evaluation, review and assessment
- Difference between monitoring, evaluation, review and assessment
- Importance of monitoring and evaluation in project/programme development
- Types of monitoring and evaluation
- Planning and implementing participatory monitoring
- Performance indicators.
- Designing and Evaluation
Areas of coverage
- Developing terms of reference for an evaluation
- Tools and methods relevant for data collection
- Sampling methods
- Importance of triangulation in evaluations
- Quality control
- Formulation of questionnaires
- General guidelines to asking questions
- Conducting an Evaluation
Areas of coverage
- Steps in organising and conducting a preparatory training for evaluation teams
- Testing tools for data collection
- Data collection
- Field Visit
- Data collection
- Experiential learning
- Field reporting
Part Two
Part two focuses on data analysis, report writing and presentation of monitoring and evaluation results.
- Qualitative Analysis
Areas of coverage
- Data reduction, organisation and interpretation.
- Methods of qualitative analysis:
- How to interpret qualitative data.
- Quantitative Analysis Methods
Areas of coverage
- Tools and methods for analysing and interpreting quantitative data
- Assessing and judging results
- computer applications using SPSS
- Report Writing and Presentation
Areas of coverage
- Contents and format of an evaluation report
- Report writing skills
- Report presentation skills
- Organising and conducting user workshops
Part Three
- Designing M&E System and Change Monitoring
Designing a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) System: definition, aims and objectives of the system; selection of relevant information and indicators; tools and methods relevant for data collection and analysis in a M&E system; organisation for M&E; presentation and use of results derived from a M&E system.
Performance indicators: What are they? Criteria for selecting performance indicators.
Impact Monitoring: Why impact monitoring; impact monitoring framework.
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