Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Bootcamp

What will you get?

Become part of this learning community; meet other monitoring and evaluation practitioners; advance your career and learn from Southern Hemisphere’s network of leading monitoring, evaluation and learning practitioners and from your peers; access great resources and be inspired.

What will it cover?

1. Introduction to Programme Design, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL)

·        Demystify your understanding of Planning, monitoring, and evaluation terms and approaches through this module which provides an  overview of:

• Approaches to programme design (Logical Framework Approach, Theory of Change and Outcome mapping
• Results based M&E
• Key programme planning concepts: Impact, outcomes, outputs, activities
• Key monitoring and evaluation concepts: effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, sustainability, impact, coherence.

 2. Programme design using Theory of Change

• Understand the Theory of Change as a planning approach, product and process and how it informs evaluation design
• Design a Theory of change:
• Identifying your long term goal
• Build pathways of change
• Identify programme assumptions
• Communicate your theory of change 

3. Developing Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning plans

• Developing plans for monitoring, evaluation and learning (including plans for data collection, analysis, reporting and learning)

 4. Measuring change - data collection for Outcomes

• Sampling
• Designing tools for data collection
• Qualitative and quantitative methods
• Remote data collection
• Interviewing hints and tips
• Ethics of data collection

5.  Communicating evaluation results

• Planning communications
• Report writing hints and tips
• Data visualization
• Developing a user friendly evaluation summary

 6.   Approaches for Impact Evaluation  / evaluating impact

• Most Significant Change
• Contribution Analysis
• Outcome Harvesting
• Experimental / quasi-experimental methods

 7.  Building leadership buy-in and institutional support for MEL

• Elements of a monitoring, evaluation and learning system
• Organisational culture, leadership and its impact on MEL
• The importance of capacity strengthening  for MEL
• Learning and reflection practices

 8.  Gender responsive evaluation

• Using gender transformative approach in your evaluation practice

 9.  Coaching

• Group or individual coaching sessions with lead MEL practitioners

 10. Case clinics

• Practice collective intelligence with your peers in these dynamic case clinics.
• Generate new ways to look at a challenge or question. 
• Develop new approaches for responding to this.