Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Professional Certificate – Foundation | Online Course
Details
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) activities are vital to the effective project management of development programs. MEL activities make sure that the project’s activities are relevant to the context, coherent with other interventions, achieve their objectives, deliver results in an efficient way, and have positive impacts that last.
The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Professional Certificate – Foundation training course will enable training participants to implement the day-to-day job activities often required from a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Officer. The course includes the foundational competencies, critical and evaluative thinking skills necessary to enable MEL officers to meaningfully design their projects, effectively manage their development projects, learn from results, make informed decisions and be accountable to their funding organizations as well as to the children, men, and women they serve.
Join our experienced facilitator, and together with a peer group, you will learn using a mix of participatory training activities and case examples over 4 weeks including 12-hours trainer-led online sessions.
Learning Outcomes- Develop results-based logical framework for development projects.
- Explain the differences between the various levels of results: outputs, outcomes, and impact.
- Develop smart quantitative and qualitative Key Performance Indicators to measure project’s progress meaningfully, accurately and adequately.
- Design project’s MEL Plan and articulating its key sections.
- Learn the latest DAC evaluation criteria and its relationship with the results framework.
- How to use learnings to improve project’s performance in one hand and to enhance organizational growth and sustainability on the other hand.
This course is a foundation to intermediate level. It is designed for development practitioners working in local and international NGOs, government agencies, donor-funded development projects, social enterprises, philanthropic organizations, development consulting firms among others. Targeted audience include:
- Monitoring. evaluation and learning officers.
- Development Project officers / coordinators
- Development programs managers
- Project field officers
- Grants management specialists
- Resources mobilization, fundraising and communication specialists.
- 8 interactive online session facilitated by our highly experienced consultant. Each live session lasts 90 minutes.
- The course focuses on a mixture of Theory and practice individually and in small group discussions..
- Presentations, materials, and training instructions are in English.
- Our trainers are bilingual, English, and Arabic
- On average, we estimate participants should set aside 4-6 hours per week to complete this course.
You will get your certificate by either one of the following conditions:
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- Attend at least 65% of the live sessions.
- Passing the final test with at least a grade of 56%.
The final online test consists of 23 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) in 35 minutes.
Course date:
3 June - 3 July 2024 | Mondays and Wednesdays
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (Egypt time)
About Beit Al Karma Academy
Beit Al Karma Academy aims to develop the capacity of development professionals and practitioners who will then support the competitiveness, sustainability and resilience of their organizations.
Outline
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Week 1: Design Your Project
- Monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) definitions and interlinkages
- Why MEL
- Results chain and results framework. Activities, outputs, outcomes, and impact
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Week 2: Measure and Monitor
- Develop SMART quantitative and qualitative Key Performance Indicators
- Data collection tools
- Prepare and structure project’s MEL plan.
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Week 3: Learn and Adapt
- Collaborative learning from monitoring and evaluation.
- MEL uses and organizational implications of M&E.
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Week 4: Evaluate
- Introduction to evaluation
- DAC evaluation criteria
- Evaluation process management
- Evaluation report outline
Speaker/s
Alaa is a senior international development specialist with 25+ years of experience in activity monitoring, evaluation, and learning, mixed evaluation methods, business development, proposal development, training and capacity building in Egypt and the MENA region. Alaa has supported the management, sustainability and resilience of profit and non-profit organizations by using knowledge as a key factor for their own revival, survival, and success in competitive and non-competitive environments.
Alaa has participated in the final evaluation, mid-term evaluation and baseline studies of 25 development-aid funded projects across Egypt and the MENA region. During these assignments, he has employed quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods and has placed particular emphasis on the development of context-aware recommendations. Alaa has provided training and technical assistance in theory of change, design and implementation of MEL plans and associated results-based monitoring and data quality assessment tools.
Special Offer
Schedules
| No. of Days: | 8 |
| Total Hours: | 12 |
We empower individuals and strengthen organizations to design, deliver and evaluate projects that create meaningful benefits, profitable and sustainable growth for themselves, their clients, project’s beneficiaries and stakeholders alike.
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