[afro-nets] Monitoring and Evaluation Training by AMREF

["Nicholas Kiambi" <nkiambi@amrefhq.org>]

AMREF International Training Centre is pleased to announce the training course in: Monitoring and Evaluation

Course Dates: 
7 April - 2 May 2008 
7 July - 1 August 2008
21 October - 14 November 2008
 
Fees: US$960
This course equips participants with competencies in monitoring and evaluation of health and development interventions at project, programme and organisational level. The course takes four weeks. 

Course Objectives  By the end of the four weeks, participants would have gained: 

1.       Concise understanding of the concepts, principles and processes of monitoring and evaluation 
2.       Knowledge and skills in designing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems 
3.       Competence in formulation of change-oriented indicators and change monitoring frameworks 
4.       Knowledge and skills in using different tools and methods for data collection 
5.       Competence in application of qualitative and quantitative data analysis tools and methods, effective report writing and presentation  

PART ONE 
Content 
1.       CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION Areas of coverage
o        Operational definitions of monitoring, evaluation, review and assessment 
o        Difference between monitoring, evaluation, review and assessment 
o        Importance of monitoring and evaluation in project/programme development 
o        Types of monitoring and evaluation 
o        Planning and implementing participatory monitoring 
o        Performance indicators. 
2.       DESIGNING AN EVALUATION 
Areas of coverage 
o        Developing terms of reference for an evaluation 
o        Tools and methods relevant for data collection 
o        Sampling methods 
o        Importance of triangulation in evaluations 
o        Quality control 
o        Formulation of questionnaires 
o        General guidelines to asking questions 
3.       CONDUCTING AN EVALUATION
Areas of coverage  
evaluation teams 
o        Testing tools for data collection 
o        Data collection 
4.       FIELD VISIT 
o        Data collection 
o        Experiential learning 
o        Field reporting 
PART TWO 
Part two focuses on data analysis, report writing and presentation of monitoring and evaluation results. 
Content 
1.       QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS Areas of coverage 
o        Data reduction, organisation and interpretation. 
o        Methods of qualitative analysis: 
*         Successive approximation 
*         Analytic comparison: Method of agreement, method of difference

*         Cultural analysis 
*         Contact summary sheet 
*         Codes and coding 
*         Site analysis meeting 
o        How to interpret qualitative data. 
2.       QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS METHODS
Areas of coverage 
o        Tools and methods for analysing and interpreting quantitative data 
o        Assessing and judging results 
o        computer applications using SPSS 
Package: 
*         Introduction to data analysis 
*         Introduction to SPSS 
*         Structure of data bases 
*         Getting from completed questionnaires to a database-coding keys, closed and open ended questions, data entry 
*         Data cleaning- ensuring data is entered correctly 
*         Types of variables; uni- and bi- variate analysis; planning your analysis. 
*         Univariate analysis-frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion 
*         Bivariate analysis: cross-tabulations, measures of significance and correlation 
*         Data interpretation 
*         Printing data 
3.       REPORT WRITING AND PRESENTATION
Areas of coverage 
o        Contents and format of an evaluation report 
o        Report writing skills 
o        Report presentation skills 
o        Organising and conducting user workshops 
PART THREE 
Content 
1.       DESIGNING M&E SYSTEM AND CHANGE MONITORING 
Designing a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) System: definition, aims and objectives of the system; selection of relevant information and indicators; tools and methods relevant for data collection and analysis in a M&E system; organisation for M&E; presentation and use of results derived from a M&E system. 
Performance indicators: What are they? Criteria for selecting performance indicators. 
Impact Monitoring: Why impact monitoring; impact monitoring framework.
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http://www.amref.org/index.asp?PageID=359
 
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