Monitoring and Evaluation for Governance
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Monitoring and Evaluation for Governance Course
Introduction:
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This course on Monitoring and Evaluation for Governance provides a useful basis to develop effective frameworks for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of development plans, budgets, programs, and projects. The course adopts a perspective of using M&E to improve governance and looks at the M&E system too
Course Objectives:
By the end of the M&E for Governance course participants will be able to:
- Develop a concise understanding of M&E concepts, principles, processes, and framework for governance program.
- Achieve a sound understanding of the role that M&E can play in improving project and program management as well as policydecision-makingg.
- Develop insight into the different stages of the evaluation process and tools
- Get familiar with challenges and tools for monitoring and evaluating
- Get tips on how to use PM&E tools for strengthening the capacities of stakeholders of decentralization at the national and local levels and for strengthening accountability systems at the municipal level.
- Define the Theory of Change and Critical pathway
- Identify and develop governance performance indicators
- Develop and design an M&E system/framework for the governance program.
- Assess the relevance and effectiveness of different tools and methods applied in monitoring and evaluating governance program
Who Should Attend?
The M&E for Governance course is ideal for:
- Government officials and Development advisors involved in the design, implementation, management and oversight of national and sector plans, budgets, programs and projects.
- Program managers; Program staff in charge of monitoring governance projects; practitioners working in civil society organizations, governmental agencies involved with M&E, and those interested in M&E.
- It especially targets staff in Monitoring and Evaluation units within Government Ministries as well as Parliamentarians and other oversight agencies.
Course Outlines:
Overview of Monitoring and Evaluation
- Definition of Monitoring and Evaluation
- Importance of Monitoring and Evaluation
- Purposes of Monitoring and Evaluation
- Governance, Leadership & Public Value
- Development Interventions
- Key principles and concepts in M&E
- M&E in the project lifecycle
- Complementary roles of Monitoring and Evaluation
M&E for governance programs
- Evaluation Process
- Evaluation Criteria
- Developing Evaluation Questions
- Evaluation findings sharing and dissemination
Data demand and use in Governance Programs
- Document of M&E LessonsLearntt and Best Practices
- Information Sharing
- Setting performance indicators
- Developing governance general performance frameworks/M&E system
- M&E tactics and applications for governance programs
Evaluating governance program
- Managing Monitoring as well as Evaluation Practice
- Impact Evaluation Designs
- Implementation of Impact Evaluations in Governance programs
- Monitoring Systems
- Project Cycle management
- Participatory Evaluation and Monitoring
Public Performance and Finance Budgeting
- Building necessary statistical and also analytical capacities
- Communicating and reporting M&E results
- Focus on several recent trends and also interesting practices
- The significance of strategic alliances as well as harmonized approaches
- Data demand and use in Governance Programs
- Document of M&E LessonsLearntt and Best Practices
