About the course
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems are
vital mechanisms for protecting and enhancing the
success of social protection initiatives. The
process of monitoring programme inputs, outputs
and developmental outcomes provides useful
feedback and articulates lessons to further
improve programme design and implementation. This
enables proactive adjustment, helps quantify
programme cost and efficiency, and facilitates
knowledge-sharing between projects, sectors and
countries. Likewise, impact assessment
(evaluation) documents the achievement of a
programme’s strategic objectives, supports
operational improvements and strengthens the
global evidence base. Further, it can mobilize
and reinforce the political will necessary for
expanding pilot programmes to a national scale
and extending and sustaining successful social
protection programmes.
The Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), in
partnership with the African Institute for Health
and Development (AIHD), is offering a two-day
intensive course that aims to develop
participants’ capacity to use monitoring and
evaluation as operational tools for achieving
these objectives. The course will be offered as
an elective module to delegates attending a two-week course offered by EPRI and
African Institute for Health and Development
(AIHD), but we are pleased also to be able to
offer participation as a two day stand-alone
event to other participants.
What the course will cover
The short course will cover the following topics:
• Monitoring systems for social protection
programmes
• Analytical tools and approaches for
effective monitoring
• Foundations of impact assessment
(evaluation)
• Elements of introduction to programme
monitoring
• Quantitative, qualitative and integrated
approaches to M&E
• The use of administrative data (management
information systems) in impact evaluation
• Experimental and non-experimental
methodologies
• Designing and managing an impact
evaluation
About
EPRI
The Economic
Policy Research Institute is a South
African-based non-governmental organisation with
extensive experience in social protection
research, policy advisory work and
capacity-building. EPRI has designed and taught
tailor-made courses and programmes to meet the
specific needs of national parliaments,
government departments and civil society
organisations.
About
AIHD
The African
Institute for Health and Development is a
Kenyan-based non-governmental organisation whose
aim is to build the capacity of communities for
better health and lives. AIHD has been involved
in poverty and health-related research since
2004. It has a major interest in capacity
building for evidence-based programming in the
region. AIHD has a working partnership with the
University of Nairobi, Institute for
Anthropology, Gender and African Studies.
About
DFID
The Department
for International Development (DFID)
leads the UK government's fight against world
poverty. Since its creation in 1997, DFID has
helped more than 250 million people lift
themselves from poverty and helped 40 million
more children to go to primary school. But there
is still much to do to help make a fair, safe and
sustainable world for all.
Through its network of offices throughout the
world, DFID works with governments of developing
countries, charities, non-governmental
organisations, businesses and international
organisations, like the United Nations, European
Commission and the World Bank, to eliminate
global poverty and its causes. DFID also responds
to overseas emergencies.
DFID's work forms part of a global promise, the
eight UN 'Millennium Development Goals', for
tackling elements of global poverty by 2015.
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Who is it for?
The course is designed for government
policymakers and social protection programme
officials, representatives from bilateral and
multilateral development partners, programme
practitioners and staff members from
non-governmental organisations. It will be
particularly useful for professionals who are
engaged in monitoring and evaluation (M&E),
those who are hoping to implement or strengthen
M&E systems, and those who rely upon and
interpret M&E assessments to make decisions.
How participants will
benefit
Successful participants will gain an in-depth
conceptual and practical understanding of how
monitoring and impact evaluation can be used as
operational tools to evaluate programme success,
analyze alternative designs and intervention
schemes, draw lessons from programme operations
in light of global experience, improve programme
design and operation, enhance cost-effectiveness
and ensure programme sustainability. Participants
will learn about global good practices, conduct
exercises, undertake case studies and work in
teams to develop the foundational skills in
monitoring and impact assessment (evaluation).
Participants will also develop expertise in
commissioning and managing technical assistance
to support rigorous integrated quantitative and
qualitative impact assessments, including
practical, theoretical and ethical dimensions of
these types of project.
Use monitoring and evaluation tools
to test and document the achievement of strategic
objectives, improve operational performance,
understand the global knowledge base (and
contribute to it), and mobilise and strengthen
the political will that sustains social
protection programmes.
Fees
and other costs
The cost for this two-day course is £520 (GBP),
which includes tuition, materials and the
comprehensive facilities fee. Packages including
accommodation, meals and airport transfers in
Mombasa are also available.
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