INTRODUCTION
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) skills are fundamental to the process of designing and implementing programs that impact human beings positively, analyzing and using data, and conducting advocacy for human rights-based programs.
In order to build the capacity of M&E professionals who are actively engaged in the human rights sector, this two weeks programme will provide hands-on training in M&E systems and the application of M&E data to decision making in human rights programming. The workshop offers intensive training that will cover the fundamental concepts and tools for M&E in human rights programmes.
DURATION
10 days
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Monitor programme inputs, processes, and results required for management of human rights programs performance
- Understand concepts, methods, and tools for monitoring of human rights programs
- Identify ways to overcome barriers to conducting effective human rights program monitoring.
- Select appropriate indicators for measuring program outputs and outcomes.
- Conduct human rights program monitoring using appropriate methods and tools.
- Competently use data analysis software package (STATA)
- Get basic knowledge of analyzing qualitative data for human rights programmes
- Use NVivo qualitative data analysis software
- Communicate findings to stimulate learning and reflection.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED IN THE PROGRAM
M&E fundamentals
- What is M&E?
- M&E Plans
- M&E Frameworks
- Indicators
- Data sources collection and use
- Relating Monitoring and evaluation to your project cycle
- Identifying the challenges facing Monitoring and evaluation professionals in the health sector
Fundamentals of Human Rights: Introduction to Human Rights
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Introduction to the concept of human rights
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Human Rights and Human Security
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History and Philosophy of Human Rights
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Concepts and Nature of Human Rights
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Human Rights Standards at the Universal Level
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Implementation of Universal Human Rights Instruments
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Human Rights and Civil Society
M&E frameworks in the respect of human rights
- M&E Frameworks basics for human right based programmes
- M&E in a human rights context
- M&E Frameworks
- Developing and operationalizing M&E frameworks
Human Rights Indicators
- Human rights indicators (both qualitative and quantitative)
- Indicator metrics
- Link between indicators and results
- Indicator Matrix
- Human rights indicator performance tracking
Data collection, management, and data quality
- Data collection methods: How to undertake data collection (quantitative and qualitative)
- Data collection versus data analysis
- Data quality and data management
- Data quality dimensions
- Functional areas of data management systems
- Double counting
- Obtaining data from Social media
- ICT tool for Data processing
- Using Mobile phones for data collection
Data use
- Introduction
- Data use frameworks and key concepts
- Data demand
- Information availability
- Information use
Introduction to data analysis and interpretation for human rights programmes
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Introduction
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Data analysis key concepts
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Types of variables
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Basic analysis
Summarizing data
- Numerical summaries for discrete variables
- Tables for dichotomous variables
- Tables for categorical variables
- Tables for ordinal variables
- Graphs and charts for dichotomous and categorical variables
- Graphs and charts for ordinal variables
- Tabulations for summary statistics for continuous variables
- Graphs and charts for continuous variables
Introduction to qualitative Human rights data analysis
- Planning for qualitative data analysis
- Reviewing the data
- Organizing your data
- Coding the data
- Introduction to using a qualitative data analysis software (NVivo)
Quantitative Data Analysis
- Planning for qualitative data analysis
- Comparison of Data analysis packages
- Basics for statistical analysis
- Testing for normality of data
- Choosing the correct statistical test
- Hypothesis testing
- Confidence intervals
- Tests of statistical significance (Parametric and non-parametric tests)
- Hypothesis testing versus confidence intervals
- Interpreting the data
Evaluation of Human rights affiliated Programs
- Determining evaluation points from results framework
- Components of evaluations, implementation and process evaluations
- Evaluation designs
- Performance evaluation process
- Evaluation findings, sharing, and dissemination
Impact Assessment
- Introduction to impact evaluation
- Impact assessment in program design
- Attribution in impact evaluation
- Impact evaluation methods
M&E Results Use and Dissemination
- Use of M&E results to improve and strengthen Human rights-related programmes
- Use of M&E Lessons learned and best practices
- M&E reporting
- Design, monitoring, and evaluation of resilience interventions
CUSTOMIZED TRAINING:
This training can also be customized for your institution upon request. You can have it delivered your preferred location.
For further inquiries, please contact us on details below:
Tel: +254 (0) 739167709.
Email: training @versedpro.com
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