Advanced M&E and Data Management for Health Training

Advanced M&E and Data Management for Health Training

About the Program

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is a critical element of any successful health program. M&E enables programs to track and demonstrate progress, as well as diagnose programs to cultivate better results. This program comes your way with improved understanding of the necessary tools to develop and implement M&E frameworks for your organization’s health programs.

Program Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will have learnt:

• The different tools to develop an M&E framework tailored to the needs of their particular health program and the knowledge to apply it rigorously in field settings.
• How to track performance indicators over the life of the project.
• How to evaluate a health project against the set results.
• About quantitative and qualitative skills for data collection and analysis of health programs.
• Data quality assessment and improvement of health programs.
• To analyze health data spatially using GIS.

Module 1: Introduction to M&E

• Definition of Monitoring and Evaluation
• Why Monitoring and Evaluation is important
• Key principles and concepts in M&E
• Complementary roles of Monitoring and Evaluation

Module 2: Introduction to Strategic Information in Health Programs

• Need for reliable information in health programs
• Components of strategic information
• Uses of strategic information
• Strategic information and program life cycle
• Decision making using strategic information

Module 3: Gender Perspective in M&E for Health Programs

• Importance of gender in M&E
• Integrating gender into program logic
• Setting gender sensitive indicators
• Collecting gender disaggregated data
• Analyzing M&E data from a gender perspective
• Appraisal of projects from a gender perspective
• Issues with integrating gender into M&E

Module 4: M&E Frameworks

• Conceptual Frameworks
• Results Frameworks
• Logical Framework Analysis (LFA)
• Log Framework – Design of projects using Log Framework

Module 5: M&E System Strengthening for Health Programs

• Why M&E System strengthening in health?
• Use of M&E System strengthening tool
• Content of M&E System strengthening tool

Module 6: M&E Health Indicators

• Selection of indicators
• Indicator metrics
• Linking indicators to results
• Indicator matrix
• Tracking of indicators

Module 7: M&E Plans in Health Programs

• Importance of an M&E Plan
• Documenting M&E System in the M&E Plan
• Components of M&E Plan-Monitoring and Evaluation components
• Using M&E Plan to implement M&E in a Project

Delivery Method

This program is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group work and case studies. Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.

CERTIFICATION
Upon successful completion of the training, participants will be awarded a certificate of course completion