Training on Result-Based Monitoring and Evaluation

Training on Result-Based Monitoring and Evaluation

About the Program

Monitoring and Evaluation helps track project performance at any given time and provides reasons for an observed project status. Having the understanding of the challenges faced by professionals in development, this program serves to gain participants with skills that can be applied consistently, thus ensuring positive outcomes both during and after the program. It will provide participants with M&E tools, techniques, and resources needed for planning, organizing, and/or managing programs and projects.

Program Objectives

At the end of this program, participants will:

• Gain confidence to apply the acquired skills and knowledge to their M&E work.
• Be in a position to share and learn from other country experiences to strengthen their M&E systems.
• Have an improved understanding of how M&E can improve the quality of their projects while promoting learning and accountability.
• Learn how to be better managers and consumers of evaluations conducted by others.

Target Audience

This program is designed to embrace professionals  from both the public and private sectors. They include:

Representatives from government, Project Teams,  NGOs, Multi and Bilateral development Organizations,  Consultancies, etc., that are typically employed as  Project Managers and Directors, M&E Specialists,  Technical Specialists, and Researchers.

Training Period

• Classroom: 5 Days
• Online: 7 Days

Module 1: Introduction to Results–Based Management.

• The story of RBM
• What are results?
• The results chain.
• What is results-based management?
• The RBM process.
• RBM in practice.

Module 2: The Logical Framework Approach.

• Introduction to the logical framework approach.
• The narrative summary.
• Objectively verifiable indicators.
• Means of verification.
• Assumptions and testing the logic.
• Ten steps to a logical framework.

Module 3: Analyzing the Project Context.

• Context analysis.
• Focus group discussion.
• Desk study.
• Survey.
• Observation.
• Interview.

Module 4: The Logical Framework Approach – Problem Analysis.

• Circular reasoning
• The problem tree.
• Problem tree analysis tasks.
• Defining the core problem.