About Course

Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Training

About the Program

MEAL involves tracking the progress of programs, making adjustments and assessing the outcomes. To understand this, the program before you is sauced with the acumen that will introduce to you the main MEAL concepts and practices. It will equally impart the participants with knowledge and skills to enable them to develop and apply practical methods, tools and approaches for result based monitoring and evaluation systems for their projects, programs and institutions using Information Management Systems.

Program Objectives

Participants will get hands on skills in the following areas:

• Design and implement MEAL strategies, systems, and frameworks.
• Understand Project reporting through MEAL.
• Project Initiation, Planning, Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Designing M&E Plan Developing M&E systems.
• Formulating Result based M&E.
• Monitoring tools, methods and procedures.

Target Audience

It has been designed for a variety of Senior Project  Team Members, Researchers, Development  Practitioners, Program staff and other Project  Associates

Training Period

• Classroom: 5 Days
• Online: 7 Days

Module 1: MEAL fundamentals.

• MEAL fundamentals.
• Results approaches: outputs, outcomes and impact.
• Relate M&E to your program and project cycle.
• Identify stakeholders and their differing needs and  roles.

Module 2: Results framework.

• Work with and beyond Log Frames.

Module 3: Theory of Change.

• Develop different types of logic models.  Approaches to Theory of Change.

Module 4: Log Frames and Results Frameworks.

• Develop indicators at different results levels.
• Define your assumptions and risks.
• Identify means of verification.

Module 5: Gathering data and information.

• Quantitative and qualitative approaches and  instruments.
• Data organization, quality assurance and analysis.
• Design baseline, evaluation and impact studies.
• Participatory data collection methodologies.
• Digital and remote MEAL.

Module 6: Reviews and Evaluations.

• How to use reviews for agile decision making.
• Using baseline data.
• Evaluation types and methods.
• Developing a ToR.

Module 7: MEAL Systems and Plans.

• Prepare a tailored MEAL plan.
• The complete MEAL system

Module 8: The learning Organization.

• Use M&E information and evidence for decision-  making.
• Identify ways to foster a learning culture.
• Become M&E change agents and champions.

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