Monitoring and Evaluation for Community and Development Programs

Monitoring and Evaluation are essential tools for successful program implementation and management. Their importance elevates for contemporary projects as they are being enacted in an extremely complex and constantly evolving environments. The uniqueness of each program’s context and strategy requires an ongoing learning effort. As community and development projects are being financed through public sources, the donors and other stakeholders demand demonstrated achievements in sustainable changes. Measuring the progress of community and development projects can be attained only through incorporating M&E tools into the project design is the only tangible way to ensure accountability and transparency of project performance.

Program Objectives

• Acquire quality knowledge of theories and approaches to Development Project Monitoring & Evaluation
• Use various soft and managerial skills to ensure stakeholder participation in M&E Processes
• Design and apply various mechanisms for Participatory project M&E
• Plan for an operational monitoring and evaluation system: identify purposes and intended users, define data management plan, and allocate resources.
• Activate and run the M and E system: collect, triangulate, process, and analyse program or project data and prepare progress reports.
• Improve professional capacity to formulate, monitor and evaluate projects.

Modules

Module 1

• The foundations of Project Management; Concepts and Principles
• Issues in Development and Development Frameworks
• Understanding the types of Communities
• Empowerment and Community Development
• Distribution of Development resources
• What are the community and development Projects?
• Essential concepts and theories of M&E
• Technical competencies and soft skills for M&E related activities
• Introduction to Results-Based Management

Module 2

• Defining and linking Monitoring, reporting, control, audit, research, and evaluation
• Designing the community Projects
• Community Involvement in Initiating Development Projects
• Incorporating M&E system while designing the community Projects
• Project Cycle Management
• Problem Diagnosis Techniques – Project Stakeholder Analysis
• The Log frame Approach
• Community/Stakeholder Influence Mapping
• Effective tools and techniques for project implementation and control
• Managing Development Stakeholders

Module 3

• Evaluating Project Management Systems and Practices
• Designing Development Project M &E System
• Setting and validating Monitoring Indicators and KPIs
• Defining the Baseline
• Data Collection Methods
• Data Processing, Analysis, Use and Storage
• Determining and Presenting Data Outputs
• Monitoring, Evaluation Variables, Indicators and Measurements
• Monitoring, Evaluation Data Analysis, and Interpretation

Module 4

• Conducting evaluations
• Effective Monitoring Techniques; Appraisal and Rapid Appraisal Techniques
• Community Involvement in Project Monitoring
• Coordinating with national bodies, project steering committees, and project staff
• Evaluation concepts, purposes, objectives, and techniques
• Utilization-focused approach to evaluation
• Evaluating social and institutional change
• Stakeholder Engagement in Evaluation
• Measuring results and impacts
• Assessing the economic, social, and environmental impact
• Post-project evaluation
• Developing the Project Performance Audit Report

Certification

• Upon successful completion of the training, participants will be awarded Cynet East Africa Consultancy certificate.

N/B

• Training will be facilitated by Cynet East Africa Consultancy seasoned trainers.