Afghanistan: Monitoring & Evaluation Training Workshop

Monitoring & Evaluation Training Workshop

Time: 09:00 am to 03:30 pm

Background:

Monitoring and evaluation are essential to improving the effectiveness of any project. Careful project monitoring allows managers to make appropriate decisions on a day-to-day basis and ensures that projects are carried out as designed and modified when necessary. Evaluation enables project managers to understand and demonstrate the results of their work, determine the best strategies for achieving their goals and document lessons learned to improve future programs.

Who should attend?

Monitoring and Evaluation Managers, Middle and senior level Project Managers, Project Monitors, Evaluators, Team Leaders and Volunteers directly or indirectly involved in monitoring and/or evaluating. It can benefit participants from industry, social sector, development organizations, academia, international funding agencies and NGOs.

Course contents

Day 1 agenda (Tentative)

1. Introduction and opening
2. What is a project & Project Management
3. Introduction to Project Management Cycle (PCM) and the M&E Phase
4. What is Monitoring?
5. What is Evaluation?
6. Monitoring Vs. Evaluation,
7. Why Monitoring and Evaluation? Objectives of an Evaluation?
8. Need of M&E Results in a project/program cycle,
9. Primary and Secondary Data
10. M&E Terminologies,
11. Assessment of “What We have Learned” & Wrap-up of Day 1
12. Closing

Day 2 Agenda (Tentative)

1. Review of day 1
2. Levels of Results/Chain of Results: Inputs, Activities, Outputs, Outcomes and Impact
3. What is Data?
4. Types of Data, & Types of Evaluations,
5. Introduction to Surveys, KAP Surveys,
6. The need for sampling,
7. Types of sampling (Probability & Non-probability), basics
8. Questionnaire development,
9. Ethical procedures in surveys, informed consent, confidentiality,
10. Indicators, types of indicators, development of indicators, and setting targets
11. Assessment of “What we have Learned” & Wrap-up of Day 2
12. Closing

Day 3 Agenda (Tentative)

1. Review of Day 1 and Day 2
2. Types of M&E Tools, data collection tools, survey tools and instruments,
3. Development of M&E Tools,
4. OECD/DAC Criteria for evaluations,
5. Understanding Logical Framework Approach (LFA)
6. Developing work plans
7. Introduction to a common M&E system
8. Assessment “What we have learned” & Post-test
9. Closing

Course Details

Language: English, the trainer will explain the main ideas in Dari / Pashto also – if needed
Dates: 24^th to 26^th November, 2015
Course fee: USD 300
Venue: Kabul, Afghanistan (The course fee includes training venue, quality lunch, refreshments, training material, handouts and recognized certificate)

Discounts 15% discount for self-sponsored participants. And 20% Discount will apply to the group of minimum 3 participants from one organization.

Wireless network connection

Free wireless internet connectivity is also available in training hall at Green Alternative Org for personal computers.

Booking

To book a place on this course, please contact us:

Cell phone#: 0093781601230 / E-mail: training@greenalternative.af

Address: Apartment#1, Asia Plaza, Taimani Square, Kabul, Afghanistan