Event: Project Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Gauteng

Objective and Methodology

This accredited course aims to equip practitioners, project partners or external evaluators with the knowledge and expertise to be able to conduct their own planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting which is critical to any organisation or government department involved in development projects and programmes. The course will be using the Logical Framework Approach, and will run in a workshop style with a high degree of participant involvement. As a case study approach will be used, the participants should come to the workshop with a project to work on throughout the course.

Outcomes 

Delegates will be able to

• Produce a stakeholder analysis, a problem analysis and an objective analysis, using Logical Framework Approach
• Identify outputs, activities and inputs
• Identify and develop “SMART” objectives and indicators
• Identify and develop risk factors and assumptions
• Develop a plan of action
• Monitor their projects
• Know when an evaluation should take place and by whom (participatory evaluation)
• Identify appropriate qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques
• Identify the elements of a monitoring and evaluation framework and system
• Construct an evaluation report
• Design a Terms of Reference for an evaluation
   

Course outline

• Purpose and benefits of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
• The project cycle
• Introduction to the Logical Framework Approach
• Stakeholder analysis
• Problem analysis
• Objective analysis
• Alternative analysis
• Presentation of Logical Framework Approach
• Identification of Indicators and Means of Verification
• Identification of Assumptions and Risks
• How to produce a Plan of Action
• Key concepts and approaches in evaluations (effectiveness, efficiency, impact, relevance and sustainability)
• Research, data analysis techniques and reporting
• Towards developing a M&E system
• Terms of reference