<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head> <title></title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"><style type="text/css">body, html { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-size-adjust: none; width: 100% !important; }table td, table { }#outlook a { padding: 0px; }.ExternalClass, .ExternalClass p, .ExternalClass span, .ExternalClass font, .ExternalClass td, .ExternalClass div { line-height: 100%; }.ExternalClass { width: 100%; }@media only screen and (max-width: 480px) { table, table tr td, table td { width: 100% !important; } img { width: inherit; } .layer_2 { max-width: 100% !important; } .edsocialfollowcontainer table { max-width: 25% !important; } .edsocialfollowcontainer table td { padding: 10px !important; } }</style><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.7.2/css/all.css" integrity="sha384-fnmOCqbTlWIlj8LyTjo7mOUStjsKC4pOpQbqyi7RrhN7udi9RwhKkMHpvLbHG9Sr" crossorigin="anonymous"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/spectrum/1.8.0/spectrum.min.css"></head><body style="padding:0; margin: 0;background: #efefef"> <table style="height: 100%; width: 100%; background-color: #efefef;" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" id="dbody" data-version="2.31" style="width: 100%; padding-top: 30px; padding-bottom: 30px; background-color: #efefef;"> <table class="layer_1" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 600px; box-sizing: border-box; width: 100%; margin: 0px auto;"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="drow" valign="top" align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0px; text-align: center; background-color: #ffffff;"> <div class="layer_2" style="max-width: 600px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; width: 100%;"> <table class="edcontent" style="border-collapse: collapse;width:100%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="edtext" valign="top" style="padding: 20px; text-align: left; color: #5f5f5f; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-break: break-word; direction: ltr; box-sizing: border-box;"><div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hello there,</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We believe this will be beneficial to you.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>PROJECT MONITORING AND EVALUATION</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong><br> Overview<br> </strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This course familiarizes participants with various project monitoring and evaluation systems and tools that focus on results in international development. The course offers participants both a conceptual framework and practical skill development.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong><br></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Course Outline</strong></p> <ul> <li>Results-Based Management (RBM) in International Development</li> <li>Understanding and distinguishing between monitoring and evaluation in the context of RBM</li> <li>Results Chain: inputs, processes, outputs, outcomes and impacts for development projects, programs or strategies</li> <li>Importance of feedback and lessons learned</li> <li>Role of partners and stakeholders</li> <li>Significance of "soft" assistance</li> <li>Implications for country offices</li></ul> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Planning for and Executing on the Monitoring and Evaluation Processes</strong></p> <ul> <li>Key principles for overall work planning</li> <li>Purpose and timing (including ex-post) of monitoring and evaluation</li> <li>Involving key partners and stakeholders</li> <li>Building monitoring and evaluation teams with defined roles and strong capabilities</li> <li>Establishing a hierarchy of project objectives</li> <li>Defining scope of monitoring and evaluations</li> <li>Selecting analytical tools, methodologies or approaches enabling measurement and attribution</li> <li>Importance of data quality and collection and baseline data</li> <li>Measuring and assessing project/program output relevance, efficiency and effectiveness in achieving outcomes</li> <li>Measuring and assessing level, sustainability, innovativeness, replicability and scalability of impacts from project/program outcomes on physical and financial assets; human assets; social capital and people's empowerment; food security; environment and communal resource base; institutions, policies and regulations</li> <li>Budgeting</li> <li>Managing monitoring and evaluation processes</li> <li>Anticipating and resolving problems</li></ul> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Tools, Methods and Approaches Facilitating Monitoring and Evaluation</strong></p> <ul> <li>Performance indicators and common rating systems</li> <li>Logical framework approach (Log Frame)</li> <li>Theory-based evaluation</li> <li>Formal surveys</li> <li>Rapid appraisal methods</li> <li>Participatory methods</li> <li>Field visits</li> <li>Public expenditure tracking surveys</li> <li>Economic analysis, including cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis</li> <li>Project evaluations</li> <li>Impact evaluation analysis</li> <li>Evaluation and tracking plans</li> <li>Annual reviews and reports</li> <li>Comparative overview of other tools, methods and approaches used by leading global institutions</li></ul> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br> <strong>Learning and Improvements</strong></p> <ul> <li>Learning from evaluative evidence and applying recommendations from feedback</li> <li>Publication of evaluative evidence and feedback material</li> <li>Improving evaluation feedback</li> <li>Knowledge management</li> <li>Institutionalization of learning</li></ul> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>DURATION AND VENUE</strong><br>1 week <br> <br> Mbabane,Swaziland.<br> Pretoria, South Africa.<br> Cape Town, South Africa<br> Dubai, UAE</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Zanzibar, Tanzania</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Victoria, Seychelles<br> <br> <strong>WHO SHOULD ATTEND?</strong><br> The course is designed for representatives from government, project teams, NGOs, multi and bi-lateral development organizations, consultancies, etc, that are typically employed as project managers and directors, M&E specialists, technical specialists, and researchers.<br></p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br> Looking forward to welcoming you.<br> <br><br></p></div><p style="margin: 0px; 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