Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

About the workshop
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) skills have been in demand for a long time, but in recent years there is an increasing emphasis on learning the lessons from M&E reviews to improve planning of future programmes and projects. In the world of international development, policy makers, politicians, programme designers and project managers need to be able to produce evidence-based results so as to demonstrate to the public that money is being well spent and that real benefits are being achieved. Good M&E plays a vital part in enabling this.

This one-week intensive workshop will give you a thorough understanding of the skills needed and the tools available for developing sustainable and cost-effective Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) processes and practices, from the policy development stage through to final outcomes.

What the workshop will cover
It will draw on a wide variety of scenarios and examples to demonstrate the tools, processes and procedures that will cover:
• How to use logical frameworks, Theory of Change, and other key M&E techniques
• Building in learning opportunities from the start
• Results-based MEAL
• Qualitative evaluation approach
• Using impact assessments
• Identification of key performance indicators and how to use them
• Modern data collection techniques, data analysis and management
• Practical approaches to MEAL
• Planning and tracking the benefits of projects, starting from the outline business case
• Value for money
• How to collect and use lessons learned for future programmes.

How participants will benefit
The workshop will enable you to:
• View the MEAL process from end to end
• Establish the basics for setting up a MEAL facility
• Obtain “ready-to-use” templates
• Through a series of practical exercises, help you to practise using processes and procedures
• Improve the effectiveness of the MEAL process to help assess programme impacts and give assurance to existing and potential stakeholders
• Use trending and risk management to ensure ‘early warning’ and other strategies for preventing failures
• Identify problems; better decision making.