Enhancing Project Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (17th-28th August 2020)

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RE: Enhancing Project Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning

FineResults Research Services would like to invite you to high impact training on Enhancing Project Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning to be held in Nairobi from 17/08/2020 to 28/08/2020

COURSE PROFILE
Course Name: Enhancing Project Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning

Date: 17/08/2020 to 28/08/2020

Duration: 10 Days

Venue: FineResults Research Training Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

Cost: USD 1600

Online Registration: REGISTER HERE

INTRODUCTION
Data gathered during monitoring and evaluation reveals the success or failure of a project. Moreover, captured data also helps in guiding strategic planning, to design and implement programs and projects, and to allocate, and reallocate resources in efficient ways. What’s more, monitoring, and evaluation helps with identifying the most valuable and efficient use of resources. This 10 days course will equip participants with knowledge in capturing quantitative and qualitative data, learn how to design a Monitoring and Evaluation system, gain practical and participatory Monitoring and Evaluation methodologies and tools to boost their program and organizational accountability, decision-making, and learning practices.

Duration
10 days

Who should attend?
• Project managers
• Staff managing projects
• Staff in non-government organizations
• Donors
• government officials,
• CBO operatives, NGO employees,
• Anyone involved in project management activities

Course objective
At the end of the training participants will learn:
• The main terms and concepts associated with the processes of monitoring and evaluating projects and programmes.
• The major tools and best practices involved in Project Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning
• What results-based M&E is
• How to capture qualitative and quantitative data, analyse and communicate results to relevant stakeholders.
• How to design and use key performance indicators and collect monitoring data.
• Get familiar with the evaluation process, the criteria and the role of the different players involved.
• How to turn monitoring and evaluation into a participative and systematic learning practice.

Course Content
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

Project Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning PMEAL overview
• Introduction to PMEAL
• PMEAL Components
• Purposes and functions of PMEAL
• PMEAL approach
• How PMEAL changes M&E
• Challenges to PMEAL
Module 2: Frameworks and PMEAL Cycle
• Frameworks and approaches informing PMEAL
• The language used in PMEAL
• The PMEAL cycle
• Exploring key elements of a PMEAL plan
• Defining indicators
• Designing, implementation and management of a PMEAL framework

Module 3: PMEAL Planning and Budgeting
PMEAL planning
• Planning and budgeting of PMEAL
• 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 PMEAL plan
• Decide upon your data analysis, quality assurance/validation, and management strategy.
o Identify your strategy for reporting and disseminating data.
PMEAL Budgeting
• Activities based PMEAL budgeting
• Components of the Budget
• Exercise: PMEAL 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: PMEAL 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 PMEAL
• Use of PMEAL data in Reporting
• Communication activities to partners and stakeholders
• Lessons learned
• Decisions making

ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation is arranged upon request. For reservations contact us through Mobile: +254 759 285 295 or Email: [email protected]

PAYMENT
Payment should be transferred to FineResults Research Limited bank before commencement of training. Send proof of payment through the email: [email protected]

CANCELLATION POLICY
• All requests for cancellations must be received in writing.
• Changes will become effective on the date of written confirmation being received.

GENERAL NOTES
• All our courses can be Tailor-made to participants needs
• The participant must be conversant with English
• Presentations are well guided, practical exercise, web based tutorials and group work. Our facilitators are expert with more than 10years of experience.
• Upon completion of training the participant will be issued with FineResults Research Services certificate
• Training will be done at FineResults Research Services center in Nairobi Kenya. We also offer more than five participants training at requested location within Kenya, more than ten participants within east Africa and more than twenty participants all over the world.
• Course duration is flexible and the contents can be modified to fit any number of days.
• The course fee includes facilitation training materials, 2 coffee breaks, buffet lunch and a Certificate of successful completion of Training. Participants will be responsible for their own travel expenses and arrangements, airport transfers, visa application dinners, health/accident insurance and other personal expenses.
• One year free Consultation and Coaching provided after the course.
• Register as a group of more than two and enjoy discount of (10% to 30%) plus free four hour adventure drive to the National game park, in Nairobi.

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How to participate

Individual Registration

Contact information

Email: [email protected]

TEL: +254 759 285 295

Website: fineresultsresearch.org/training/

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