
Master the foundations of monitoring and evaluation, including logical framework design, methods, tools, sampling, ethics and consent, data analysis, and presentation for government and development projects.
Identify and track only predefined project indicators within a logical framework through continuous data gathering, analysis, and reporting to inform decisions.
Explore the objectives of monitoring and evaluation, including tracking timeliness, effectiveness, outputs, results, and changes in behavior and attitudes, while assessing context, efficiency, lessons learned, and partner coordination.
Explore the logical framework, a project management tool that links means and ends in a four-by-four matrix, and the rogue frame, a dynamic system for planning, monitoring, and evaluating projects.
Identify means of verification as the sources of information for indicators, such as progress reports, survey reports, and government documents, to measure indicators in monitoring and evaluation.
Develop a logical framework for a dairy value chain project, linking goal to outputs, indicators, verification, and assumptions. Pursue two objectives: boost milk production and establish a dairy market system.
Use data types to choose monitoring and evaluation tools. Distinguish quantitative data with numerical responses and close-ended questions from qualitative data with detailed narratives and open-ended responses.
The tools' choice in monitoring and evaluation depends on data type (quantitative or qualitative) and data collection method, guiding questionnaires, focus group discussion guide, or observation checklist.
Explore how a questionnaire uses open ended and closed questions with yes or no options, alternatives, and recant scales to guide data collection in surveys for monitoring and evaluation.
Design questionnaire for monitoring and evaluation by reviewing log frame indicators, covering qualitative and quantitative indicators across outcomes, outputs, impacts; group questions into sections, pretest, deploy with odk or kobo.
An observation checklist serves as a harmony tool, guiding trained observers to list and record what they see, using yes/no, blank entries, or notes within a guided protocol.
Learn how indicators can be misinterpreted, too numerous or few, data reporting errors, and incompatibility with standards, which hinder informing decisions and consistent reporting in monitoring and evaluation.
Explore the XLSForm question types in Kobo toolbox, from integer and decimal numbers to text, date, time, image, audio, video, GPS, and calculations, including single and multiple selections.
Download and install the Kobo Toolbox Android app on a mobile device, navigate its forms and settings tabs, and prepare to connect the ODC hub to the online server.
Suppress the calendar in the date question by setting the appearance to no calendar, enabling a birth date picker with date, month, and year selection and easy navigation on mobile.
Learn how to create integer questions that restrict input to whole numbers, using an integer type and a numeric mobile keyboard (for example, number of household members).
Explore calculate type questions by multiplying water cost per liter by daily liters. Use Dora curly bracket references in Excel form and practice basic operators to compute daily water expenditure.
Learn to design select-one questions from a list of options, enforce a single response, reuse choices across questions, and label with groups like gender in COBOL Android Hub.
Master the select_multiple question type to let respondents choose multiple answers. Capture multiple economic activities shaping livelihoods and implement the format in xls forms and Android Kobo.
Learn how to control image pixels at capture time by setting a maximum pixel size via parameters, ensuring uploads meet external system requirements with the ODC Android app.
Use the image question type with signature or draw appearances to capture signatures or sketches, up to 1080 pixels wide, with height auto-adjusted, stored as images in Kobo Toolbox.
Explore the question type range by switching between picker and vertical appearances, showing how the same range shifts from horizontal to vertical and uses a picker for rating (1–5).
Explore the data analysis process, including means, medians, modes, and standard deviation, and visualize results with charts and tables. Interpret findings to inform timely decisions in quantitative and qualitative analyses.
Explain the varieties of beneficiary feedback, including information requests, assistance requests, satisfaction reports, safety concerns, staff behavior complaints, and program compliments, all conveyed through available channels.
Receive complaints and feedback through multiple channels, acknowledge receipt, and register them in a database; process and resolve issues, escalate sensitive cases, and disseminate donor reports while protecting beneficiaries' confidentiality.
This course discusses in details key concepts of Monitoring and Evaluation, to enable the students better understand, participate in, and contribute to the Monitoring and Evaluation processes of the organizations. The essential topics covered include;
1. Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation
2. Designing logical framework in Monitoring and Evaluation
3. Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
4. Monitoring and Evaluation methods
5. Monitoring and Evaluation Tools
6. Sampling in Monitoring and Evaluation
7. Ethics & Informed Consent in Monitoring and Evaluation
8. Data analysis and presentation in monitoring and Evaluation
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is used to assess the performance of projects, institutions and programmes set up by governments, international organizations and NGOs. Its goal is to improve current and future management of outputs, outcomes and impact. Monitoring is a continuous assessment of programmes based on early detailed information on the progress or delay of the ongoing assessed activities. An evaluation is an examination concerning the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and impact of activities in the light of specified objectives
Monitoring and evaluation are critical for building a strong, global evidence base around projects for assessing the wide, diverse range of interventions being implemented to address it. At the global level, it is a tool for identifying and documenting successful programmes and approaches and tracking progress toward common indicators across related projects. Monitoring and evaluation forms the basis of strengthening understanding around the many multi-layered factors underlying projects and the effectiveness of the response at the service provider, community, national and international level.
At the programme level, the purpose of monitoring and evaluation is to track implementation and outputs systematically, and measure the effectiveness of programmes. It helps determine exactly when a programme is on track and when changes may be needed. Monitoring and evaluation forms the basis for modification of interventions and assessing the quality of activities being conducted.
Monitoring and evaluation can be used to demonstrate that programme efforts have had a measurable impact on expected outcomes and have been implemented effectively. It is essential in helping managers, planners, implementers, policy makers and donors acquire the information and understanding they need to make informed decisions about programme operations.
The course will enable you build basics understanding of monitoring and Evaluation