DESIGN AND ENHANCE YOUR MEAL SYSTEM TO IMPROVE PROGRAM QUALITY AND IMPACT
Go deep into the concepts, practises, frameworks, and tools to draw from so that you can design your own monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) system, or enhance the one already in place. In this course, you’ll have the opportunity to learn about the components of a robust MEAL system and how to use your MEAL system to track and measure progress. Simultaneously, you will explore various techniques for collecting and analysing data to inform program decisions and adjustments, and to understand the effects and impacts of a given program or project on the communities you serve. Please note that you can choose from various levels of the MEAL course, depending on the knowledge and skills that you are looking to gain:
- Level 1: Introduction to Monitoring & Evaluation basis + project/programme lifecycle.
- Level 2: Results-based management, participatory M&E frameworks, and data collection.
- Level 3: Data collection software and analysis, accountability, learning, baseline evaluations and surveys.
- Level 1 +2 + 3: M&E basics, project/programme lifecycle, results-based management and participatory M&E frameworks, data collection software and analysis, accountability and learning, and baseline evaluations and surveys.
COURSE OUTCOMES
- Understand various approaches and frameworks to draw from to develop and support your MEAL plan.
- Learn how to use your MEAL system to inform management decisions, guide program implementation, and measure programme impact.
- Discover how to Integrate MEAL tools and practises into your program development.
- Appreciate how you can use your MEAL system to strengthen accountability within your organisation and to your program stakeholders.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- Monitoring Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Concepts, terms and theories.
- Log Frame and Outcome Mapping.
- Hierarchy of Objectives (Impact, Outcomes and Outputs).
- Developing Performance Indicators.
- Assumptions and Risk Analysis.
- M&E Data collection, Analysis and Reporting.
- Results-based Financing and Value for Money.
- Designing Tools for Participatory M&E Data Collection.
- Management Information System.
- Basic introduction to SPSS package.
- Questionnaire Coding and Development of SPSS Coding Sheet.
- Presentation of Data.
WHO THE COURSE IS FOR
Organisation leaders and program officers
OTHER SERVICES
VINCENT OTIENO
‘’The classes are very interactive. Not for any moment, I have felt like I was afraid to approach my trainer or facilitator whenever I had difficulties. I felt like my friend was standing in front of me and teaching me a new method. Anything that I needed as a foreign student at MS TCDC was there”
Alumnus - BA in Governance and Development
HELLEN WILSON LUTTA
‘‘It has been good for me as a project manager, to learn different ways of resource mobilization and how I can improve my skills in proposal writing. This is a very important course that I can recommend for every project or program manager as it is a very important skill that managers need to know how to mobilize resources."
Project Manager - Marie Stopes Tanzania
RICHARD OLONG
“There is a big impact that I have seen not only from my perspective but also the perspective of my fellow participants. A lot of them have moved forward to develop resource mobilization strategies, and some of them are using those skills to engage with relevant donors to access funding. I know quite a few that have accessed funding as a result of that training - for instances our grantees in Rwanda, Zambia and Malawi who have been able to use those skills to access funds from GIZ.’’
Regional Programme Manager OXFAM
ISAKWISA MBYALE
Climate change reporting is important because it directly relates to human life. Therefore, we report it to make sure that the community and government take adaptive measures against climate change.
Isakwisa participated in our course: 'Climate Change Reporting'
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