TRAINING ON MONITORING & EVALUATING, ACCOUNTABILITY AND LEARNING

TRAINING ON MONITORING & EVALUATING, ACCOUNTABILITY AND LEARNING

Start Date: 11/10/2021 End Date: 22/10/2021 for 10 days
Register online: https://bit.ly/2NEqIhZ

Organizer: DATA-AFRIQUE CONSULTANCY (www.data-afriqueconsultancy.org)
Course fee: USD 2,000

INTRODUCTION

Monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) are part of everyday programme management and are critical to the success of all programmes. MEAL technical quality is very important across a portfolio of projects. Without an effective MEAL system we would be unable to track progress, make adjustments, discover unplanned effects of programmes, or judge the impact that we have made on the lives of those with whom we are working. A MEAL system also helps individuals and teams to be accountable to stakeholders through information sharing and developing a complaints or feedback mechanism which can help to guide programme implementation. This training introduces participants to MEAL concepts and practices. It will stimulate ideas on how to design and implement monitoring and evaluation processes that strengthen accountability and learning, and so promote project, programme and strategy effectiveness.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the end of this course the participants will be able to:

Develop an understanding of the basic principles underlying MEAL

Design and implement MEAL strategies, systems, and frameworks

Develop and support the use of MEAL tools and practices in program development

Supporting the development of MEAL work pieces such as program baselines, mid-term reviews and end lines

Equip participants with an understanding of the major tools and best practices involved in MEAL

Provide participants effective rules of thumb and a framework to approach methodological issues in MEAL

Collect data, ensure data quality management and analyses the data

Understand project reporting by using MEAL

DURATION                                                          

10 days

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This is a general training is targeting variety of programme staff, management team members and thematic staff, Project Management Officials, government officials, programme managers; policy makers and programme implementers; development practitioners and activists and NGO and CSO members,

COURSE CONTENTS

Module 1: Introduction Monitoring & Evaluation

M&E and the project/programme cycle

Importance of M&E

Purposes and uses of M&E

Identifying gaps in M&E

Barriers to effective M&E

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) overview

Introduction to MEAL

MEAL Components

Purposes and functions of MEAL

MEAL approach

How MEAL changes M&E

Challenges to MEAL

Module 2: Frameworks and MEAL Cycle

Frameworks and approaches informing MEAL

The language used in MEAL

The MEAL cycle

Exploring key elements of a MEAL plan

Defining indicators

Designing, implementation and management of a MEAL framework

Module 3: MEAL Planning and Budgeting

MEAL planning

Planning and budgeting of MEAL

Planning and Budgeting relationship.

Tools for planned monitoring and evaluation activities

How do I get started?- Practical’s and application

Identifying project/programme goals.

Identifying project/programme indicators and targets.

Selecting data collection methods and data sources for prioritized indicators in your MEAL plan

Decide upon your data analysis, quality assurance/validation, and management strategy.

Identify your strategy for reporting and disseminating data.

MEAL Budgeting

Activities based MEAL budgeting

Components of the Budget

Exercise: MEAL Plan and corresponding budget

Module 4: Accountability and Learning

Meaning of accountability mean in practice

Aspects of accountability.

Importance of Accountability

Information sharing

Participation

Handling Complaints

Learning and its role

Exercise: Incorporating Accountability and Learning in Projects

Module 5: Baseline and evaluation design and management

The purpose and use of baselines and evaluations

Purpose and use of needs assessments, situation analysis,

Baselines, evaluations and real-time reviews

Importance of baseline for monitoring and evaluation

Steps in planning and undertaking baselines and evaluations

Module 6: Survey Planning and Implementation Types of surveys

The survey design and process

Methods of survey sampling and determining the Sample size

Data collection techniques and tools

Designing survey questionnaires

Pretesting research tools for Validity and Reliability

Conducting the survey

After the survey

Exercise: Planning for a survey

Module 7: MEAL Data Collection: Mobile Based Data Collection (ODK)

Introduction to mobile phone data collection

Advantages and challenges of Mobile Applications

Components of Open Data Kit (ODK)

Install ODK Collect into mobile devices

Designing and creating Forms

ODK Aggregate Server

Exercise: Mobile Based Data Collection using ODK

Module 8: Data Quality Management, Tabulation and graphical presentation of data (SPSS/Stata/R)

Data quality Management

Types of variables (Numerical, discrete variables, dummy variables,

Entering categorical and continuous data

Defining and labeling variables

Validation and Sorting variables

Transforming, recording and computing variables

Tabulation and graphical presentation of data

Descriptive Statistics

Frequency Tables

Tables for categorical data

Graphs and charts

Exercise: Data Management, Graphing, and Tabulations

Module 9: Data analysis and interpretation and use (SPSS/Stata/R)

Hypothesis testing

Comparing Means.

Regression and Correlation analysis

Interpreting the data

Introduction to analyzing qualitative data and qualitative data analysis software

Exercise: Data Analysis and interpretation

Module 10: Project reporting through MEAL

Use of MEAL data in Reporting

Communication activities to partners and stakeholders

Lessons learned

Decisions making

GENERAL NOTES

• This course is delivered by our seasoned trainers who have vast experience as expert professionals in the respective fields of practice. The course is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group works and case studies.
• Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.
• Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be issued with a certificate.
• We can also do this as tailor-made course to meet organization-wide needs. Contact us to find out more: [email protected]
• The training will be conducted at DATA-AFRIQUE TRAINING CENTRE, Nairobi Kenya.
• The training fee covers tuition fees, training materials, lunch and training venue. Accommodation and airport transfer are arranged for our participants upon request.
• Payment should be sent to our bank account before start of training and proof of payment sent to: [email protected]