Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Projects

Monitoring and Evaluation Workshop

Most organizations still have challenges in determining the extent to which their operations are contributing to the achievement of the desired goals and objectives. Examples of some of the questions that still remain unanswered in some could be: We are working hard but how can we effectively measure the progress we have made in our work? Is our service delivery producing the desired impacts? Are our operations sustainable? How can we ensure our activities are relevant, effective and efficient in the context of inputs to expected outputs? How are our development interventions contributing to the welfare of our clients or stakeholders? Why have things happened the way they did?

Centre for Environmental Management and Planning-Africa’s Monitoring and Evaluation workshop provides solutions to the above and more related challenges. It will introduce and equip participants with skills to be able assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, (both expected and unexpected), in the light of specified objectives, as well as the impact, sustainability and the appropriateness of the institutional framework.

Monitoring and Evaluation Basic Concepts

While monitoring and evaluation are two distinct elements, they are decidedly geared towards learning from what you are doing and how you are doing it by focusing on many essential and common objectives. The course considers important concepts and activities from inception through to outcome evaluation and additionally includes valuable project management and leadership techniques. The objective of this course is to enable the participants to understand the basic concepts of monitoring and evaluation, and how these can be applied to ensure the direction of the project activities achieve the desired project outcomes and results.

Monitoring and Evaluation of development projects

Monitoring and evaluation of project provides managers, project management team, funders and stakeholders with better means for learning from past experience, improving service delivery, planning and allocating resources and demonstrating results as part of accountability to key stakeholders.

The objective of this course is to enhance development practitioners’ knowledge, skills and attitudes in assessing needs of clients, determining desired outcomes and designing and implementing a plan to reach those goals and document impact.