The Best Monitoring and Evaluation Training Program in Africa

DATE

August 12th -16th 2024

September 9th-13th 2024

October 7th -11th 2024

November 4th -8th 2024

January 27th -31st 2025

Abuja  – Suite A8,Abuja Shopping Mall,No 8 Maputo Street, Wuse Zone 3

Lagos – No 3 Allen Avenue Ikeja,Lagos

Port Harcourt – Office 15-17,Opus Plaza,No 21 Adam Street,D-Line, Port Harcourt

Online Course available

This course is for managers and monitoring and evaluation officers who
need to supervise, manage, plan and implement M&E in their projects and
programs. The course addresses M&E for the entire results chain, including
the all-important outcomes.

Delivered by our practitioners with extensive participatory field
experience. This course will enable you to bring the learning into
practice and to understand the difference between data, information and
knowledge which is a key aspect to ensure strategic decision making.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Describe and understand the four stages in an M&E system
2. Develop a framework that links project activities to outcomes and
impacts (goals)
3. Develop indicators that effectively identify progress toward project
outcomes
4. Develop a system to collect and compile data
5. Determine an appropriate method of analyzing, presenting and
disseminating information to different stakeholders
6. Demonstrate the ability to use information to identify problems and
implement changes

The whole sessions are spread over five days and use various teaching and learning methods such as case studies, worksheets, role plays, small and large group exercises and interactive presentations. The class will be
provide with a suggested agenda that can be revised as needed based on
discussions with participating organizations. Each session has a guide
outlining the contents, timing, preparation and materials required (e.g.,
handouts, slides, worksheets).

Our Facilitators are world class professionals in M&E that understand the
purpose and use of data, they are able to guide organizations to
strengthen planning and to implement the four M&E stages and are very
familiar with using participatory training methods such as case studies
and role plays. The program follows a learn–practice–do model.
Participants will first learn about a concept/component of the M&E system
through a brief PowerPoint presentation and discussion. Then they will
work in small groups to critique how an organization described in a case
study has tackled this concept (practice) and finally participants will
work with others from their organization to design their own M&E system
(do).

Each workshop participant will receive a packet containing information for
use during and after the workshop (e.g., agenda, worksheets, case study
and templates etc). Handouts for specific sessions will be given out at the
beginning of the workshop.

Through a mix of practical activities, theory and examples of effective
practice you will learn how to:

•  Understand what Monitoring and Evaluation is – and what the differences
  are between these two concepts.
• Get an overview why this area of work is rapidly changing.
• Monitoring and Evaluation planning with a focus on Logframes and Theory of Change
•  Understand what measuring means – and that it is about reducing uncertainty
• Design or critically review a results chain.
• Data Flow, Data Management and Data Quality
• Work with quantitative and qualitative data
• Overview of Creating Smart Phone based form for data collection/record keeping
  • Interface Walk through of the ODK Tool
  • Survey design XLS Form Syntax [Worksheet & Metadata]
  • Question Types
  • Form authoring basic tips with ODK Collect Tool
  • Use of Kobo Collect
• Work with secondary and primary data and be familiar with key tools for collecting data yourself
• Critically review indicators and design high-quality indicators yourself
• Review Case Studies

1.Prepare M&E plan
2. Designing and Implementing Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Assessment
3. Introduction to use of MINITAB 19.0 Statistical Software for the Data
Analysis

Participant presentations using MINITAB 19.0 Statistical Software
Embedding learning for personal and organizational benefit
Becoming change agents for M&E.

• Monitoring and Evaluation data management topics to be covered
  – Descriptive Statistics and Graphical Analysis
  -Types of Data
  -Using Graphs to Analyze Data
  -Using Statistics to Analyze Data
  -Sampling Distributions
  -Tests and Confidence Intervals
  -Control Charts
  -Capability
  -Variance
  -MSA (Measurement System Analysis)
  -DOE (Design of Experiment)