- Duration: 5 days
Course overview
The objective of this course in planning, monitoring and evaluation is to equip delegates with the knowledge and expertise to be able to conduct their own planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting or to be able to guide project partners in doing so. A key objective is to increase the capacity to deliver project outcomes that are efficient and effective, and to be able to measure and evaluate these outcomes.
Participants will leave the course with:
Knowledge and skills of how to plan a development project, using the Logical Framework Approach, and how to design an M&E plan.
Course learning outcomes
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
• An appreciation of the purpose and benefits of planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting
• An improved workable understanding of the key concepts in planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting
• An understanding of the importance of integrating monitoring, evaluation and reporting into project planning, and an understanding of where they fit into the project cycle
• Knowledge of how to plan a project using the Logical Framework Approach
• Knowledge of how to develop a result-based monitoring and evaluation framework
• Knowledge of the different stages of evaluation
• An improved understanding of the different types of evaluation
• A basic knowledge of data collection and analysis techniques, and their relationship to the different types of evaluation.
Course Content
Module 1
Purpose and benefits of planning, monitoring and evaluation
Definitions of planning, monitoring and evaluation
The project cycle
Module 2
Introduction to LFA
Accountability and stakeholder analysis
• Problem analysis
• Objective analysis
• Alternative analysis
• Project elements (description column)
• Assumptions
• Theory of change
• Plan of action
Module 3
• Key concepts: Effectiveness, efficiency, Impact, Relevance, Sustainability
• Key concepts: Outcomes versus outputs
Module 4
• Indicators
• Means of verification
Module 5
• Planning for data collection
• Planning for data analysis
• Planning for reporting
• The monitoring and evaluation framework and system
Module 6
• Stages of evaluation
• Participatory vs non-participatory evaluation
• Key concepts: Values of development work – Accountability
• The evaluation report
• Developing a term of reference and a proposal
Target Audience
Public service departments, entities, municipalities and non-governmental managers dealing with the monitoring and evaluation of public sector policies, programmes and projects.
Training Methodology
State-of-the-art business facilitation methods are transferred by means of short, focused presentations which are followed by experiential learning workshop sessions. In these sessions, the knowledge gained is applied to real-world examples and case studies. Rapid learning of the methods and techniques is achieved by means of group work, individual work, participant discussion, facilitator interaction and constructive feedback.
WHY STUDY WITH US?
Diamond Training Institute give you the opportunity to further your education and acquire the knowledge and skills that are relevant in the workplace.
ON-TRACK FOR GROWTH
The individual leaves this course with a Personal Action Plan to encourage immediate transfer of training to the job.
EVALUATION TO ENSURE CONSISTENT QUALITY
All our courses are evaluated at Kirkpatrick’s Reaction and Learning levels as part of our quality control process.
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