Leading Change through Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Excellence: A Masterclass Experience

Introduction and Overview

• Definition and Concepts
• Good Monitoring and Evaluation Design
• The Ten-Step Model
• Key Success Factors

Results-Based Management and Results Framework

• Results-Based Management
• Results Framework & the Results
• Establishing a Baseline and Setting Targets
• Results Chain and Logical Model
• Theory of Change
• Outputs, Outcomes, and Impact
• Being S.M.A.R.T.
• Writing Results

Developing and Selecting Indicators

• Meaning & Types of Indicators
• Output vs Outcome Indicators
• The C.R.E.A.M. of Good Performance Indicators
• Disaggregation
• Gender-sensitive and Gender-specific Indicators
• Indicator Quality Assessment
• Developing & Defining Indicators

Monitoring

• Understanding Monitoring
• The power of Measuring Results & Principles of Monitoring Systems
• Collecting Data and Managing Project Records
• Participatory Monitoring and Methods of Data Collection
• Monitoring Mechanisms & Workplans
• Monitoring Tools & Project (Re) Design
• Critical Success Factors of PM&E
• Quality Assurance, Project Monitoring & Verification Activities

Evaluation

• Introduction
• Evaluation Star
• Evaluation Outputs and the Project/Program Cycle
• Evaluation Steps & Performance Logic Chain Assessment
• Impact Evaluation & Types of Evaluation
• Evaluation Data Collection
• Planning and Managing an Evaluation
• Using Evaluation Outcomes
• Project Audit & Evaluation Report

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