Monitoring and Evaluating Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition Programs Training (Virtually and Onsite)

Food security is paramount in any particular nation and plays a major role towards the achievement of the other sustainable development goals; that is poverty eradication, good health and well-being, decent work and further towards economic growth goals. Rural development not only plays a major role in eradicating poverty by providing alternative sources of livelihoods but also significantly contributes to agricultural growth which in turn contributes to food security.

This training, therefore, aims at aiding personnel in the agricultural sector in; monitoring and evaluating of rural development; assessing their impact, and data management and analysis and its interpretation for policy making for development agenda.

Duration

10 days

Cost

The individual cost for the onsite training workshop is USD 1700 for individual participants and USD 1300 for groups above 10 participants exclusive of 16% VAT.  Participants attending the training onsite will be responsible for their own travel expenses and arrangements, such as airport transfers (and visa application, where necessary), food and accommodation, health/accident insurance, and other personal expenses. The Virtual Cost of the training is USD 1,300 for individual participants and USD 1000 for groups above 10 participants exclusive of 16% VAT This covers the training fee, resource materials, and conference package.

Intended Attendees

This is a general training is targeting a variety of program staff, management team members and thematic staff, Project Management Officials, government officials, programme managers; policymakers and programme implementers; development practitioners and activists and NGO and CSO members, Research organizations among others for Agriculture support activities.

Aim

This course that is delivered through interactive lectures, case studies, and simulation aims to provide competency and skills to technical staff to create cutting-edge monitoring and evaluation staff across organizations who can effectively monitor, and evaluate agriculture, food security, and nutrition programmes.

Objectives

At the end of this training you will be able to:

• Gain insight into the principles of monitoring, evaluation, and impact assessment in food and nutrition security.
• Strengthen their competence in the designing, monitoring, and evaluation of FSN programs.
• Come up with clear ideas for improving monitoring, evaluation, and impact assessments for food security and nutrition programs.
• Appreciate the need to integrate gender roles in the development of FSN programs.
• Gain skills in both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis in M&E for food security and nutrition programs.

Post-Training Mentorship

All SDSL participants who successfully complete the training are provided with dedicated coaches to accompany them after completion of the training including receiving recent and relevant journals, research, and benchmarking practices on topical issues in respective disciplines.

Entry Requirements

This course has beginners and advanced modules and SDS will advise individuals appropriately after reviewing their applications.