When: Monday to Friday June 7-11, 2010
Where: Copenhagen, Denmark (Event in English)
What: This course aims to equip practitioners, project partners or external evaluators with the knowledge and expertise to be able to conduct their own planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting which is critical to any organisation or government department involved in development projects and programmes. The course will be using the Logical Framework Approach, and will run in a workshop style with a high degree of participant involvement. As a case study approach will be used, the participants should come to the workshop with a project to work on throughout the course.
Delegates will be able to:
- Produce a stakeholder analysis, a problem analysis and an objective analysis, using Logical Framework Approach
- Identify goal, outcome, outputs, activities and inputs
- Identify and develop "SMART" objectives and indicators
- Identify and develop risk factors and assumptions
- Develop a plan of action
- Develop a Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for their projects
- Know when an evaluation should take place and by whom (participatory evaluation)
- Identify appropriate qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques
- Construct an evaluation report and terms of reference
Course outline:
- Purpose and benefits of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
- The project cycle
- Introduction to the Logical Framework Approach
- Stakeholder analysis
- Problem analysis
- Objective analysis
- Alternative analysis
- Presentation of the project description in a Logical Framework Approach Matrix
- Identification of Indicators and Means of Verification
- Identification of Assumptions and Risks
- How to produce a Plan of Action
- Key concepts and approaches in evaluations (effectiveness, efficiency, impact, relevance and sustainability)
- How to develop a monitoring & evaluation plan
- Towards developing a M&E system
- Terms of reference
Find out more: For more information, visit www.southernhemisphere.co.za/ or contact Pippa Segall at training@southernhemisphere.co.za or by phone at +27214220205.
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