DESIGN AND ENHANCE YOUR MEAL SYSTEM TO IMPROVE PROGRAM QUALITY AND IMPACT
Go deep into the concepts, practices, 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, how to use your MEAL system to track and measure progress and discover techniques for collecting and analysing program data.
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: Overview of Managing for Development Results (MfDR), Overview of Project Monitoring and Controlling, and Performed Project Accountability
- Level 2: Participatory M&E approaches (PM&E), outcome mapping, outcome harvesting, most significant change techniques, and documenting best practices
- Level 3: Data Analysis and interpretations
- Comprehensive (Levels 1, 2 and 3): MEAL basics, project/programme lifecycle, managing for development results and participatory M&E frameworks, accountability and learning, outcome harvesting, and outcome mapping and data analysis.
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.
- Demonstrate appreciation for managing projects for development results.
- Recognise the significance of project monitoring and control in the MfDR agenda
- Analyse and intereprent quantitative and qualitative data
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
LEVEL 1
- Managing for Development Results (MfDR)
- Project Monitoring and Controlling
- Understanding the MEAL Function
- Monitoring and Evaluating Projects
- Documenting Lessons-Learned and Good Practices
- Performing Project Accountability
LEVEL 2
- Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) Approaches
- Outcome Mapping
- Outcome Harvesting
- Most Significant Change Technique
- The Use of Documentation of Best Practices in MEAL
LEVEL 3
- Introduction to Quantitative Data Analysis, and Qualitative Data Analysis
- Introduction to IBM SPSS package
- Data Analysis and Presentation
- The basics of qualitative data and Introduction to NVivo
- Memos and notes, Coding Stripes & highlights, and classifying Interviews and Focus groups
- Open-codes and thematic coding structure, Idea of queries, Idea of nodes and codes, and Data organization and management
- Setting up projects (using concept and project maps to visually explore patterns and relationships in your data)
WHO THE COURSE IS FOR
- Development workers in development organizations and the private and public sectors
- Data processing coordinators and supervisors
- Data Entry Operators
- Researchers
- Demographers
- Data managers.
FEE FOR THE COURSE
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
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