Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation

This is an outline of the basics of setting up and using a monitoring and evaluation system for a project or an organisation. It illuminates what monitoring and evaluation is, how to plan M&E activities, and how to design a system that helps you monitor and an evaluation process.

With a focus on health interventions, it looks at how to collect the information needed and analysing the information in a relatively straightforward way. Finally it raises, and attempts to address, some of the issues to do with feedback (taking action on the basis of findings).

This course is targeting professionals in the monitoring and evaluation sector area including M & E officers, M & E assistants, data collectors, field monitors, any NGO staff and employee, government civil servants, students in colleges or universities, proposal writers, programme managers, management and implementation staff, community volunteers, health promoters and other professionals.

• -Identify the basic purposes and scope of M&E
• -Differentiate between monitoring functions and evaluation functions
• -Describe the functions and main components of an M&E plan
• -Identify and differentiate between conceptual frameworks, results frameworks, and logic models and describe how frameworks are used for M&E planning
• -Identify criteria for the selection of indicators and describe how indicators are linked to frameworks
• -Identify types of data sources and data analysis
• -Describe how information can be used for decision-making