Monitoring and Evaluation for Health Sector Programmes

Course title: Monitoring and Evaluation for Health Sector Programmers

Dates and registration links

20/03/2023 to 24/03/2023: https://bit.ly/3E0I5na

22/05/2023 to 26/05/2023: https://bit.ly/3NztsKJ

07/08/2023 to 11/08/2023: https://bit.ly/3WLmwyr

04/12/2023 to 08/12/2023: https://bit.ly/3WLmsPd

INTRODUCTION

Monitoring and Evaluation helps in collecting, analyzing and transforming health data into strategic information for informed decision making, improved effectiveness and enhanced advocacy in health programs. M&E will help to ensure that health programs are implemented as planned and to assess whether desired results are being achieved. This course aims to build the capacity of M&E professionals working in the health sector. The acquired M&E skills will assist the participants to improve health program planning and performance management and enhance the institutionalization of the collection of health-related data and the analysis of program impact. The main topics covered include the development of monitoring and evaluation for key health sector program areas; HIV and AIDS, STDs, TB, maternal health, family planning, child health and reproductive health.

DURATION

5 Days

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course the learners should be able to:

• Understand monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of health programs
• Design a health project using logical framework
• Develop indicators and targets for each result level
• Track performance indicators over the life of the project
• Evaluation a health project against planned outcomes
• Develop and implement an M&E system
• Develop a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation plan

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1

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

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 2

Introduction to M&E

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

M&E Frameworks

• Conceptual Frameworks
• Results Frameworks
• Logical Framework Analysis (LFA)
• LogFrame - Design of projects using LogFrame

M&E Health Indicators

• Indicators selection
• Indicator metrics
• Linking indicators to results
• Indicator matrix
• Tracking of indicators

Module 3

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

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

Health Programs Evaluation

• Determining evaluation points from results framework
• Components of evaluations: implementation and process evaluations.
• Evaluation designs- experimental, quasi-experimental and non-experimental
• Performance evaluation process
• Evaluation findings sharing and dissemination

Impact Evaluation in Health Programs

• Why impact evaluation is important
• Project attribution
• Counterfactual in IE
• IE Methods; Difference in Difference & Propensity score matching

Module 5

M&E Results Use and Dissemination

• Data demand and use in health programs
• Use of M&E Lessons learnt and Best Practices
• Organization knowledge champions
• M&E reporting format
• M&E results communication strategies