Designing a programme is one thing, making it truly work and showing its results is another. Many organisations end up building monitoring and evaluation systems that focus heavily on reporting, not responding enough to the needs of staff and stakeholders for decision making and programme steering and adaptation. Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) should not be a burden. Done well, it provides clarity, supports decision-making, and helps adapting programmes and organisations to context and needs.
This 3-day in-person course gives you the essentials to make MEL both practical and effective. You will learn how to create a system that reflects your programme’s unique context, generates useful evidence, and fosters learning among all stakeholders. Through interactive sessions, peer exchange, and a hands-on demonstration programme, you will gain the skills to use MEL as a driver for results and growth.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Use Theory of Change and Results-Based Management to design realistic result chains and appropriate intervention strategies
- Build a MEL system that meets the real information needs of your stakeholders
- Adapt MEL to your intervention strategies: choosing appropriate MEL methods and tools for raising awareness, empowerment, capacity strengthening, advocacy and policy influencing, partnership and network building, direct service delivery, and others
- Explore innovation: understanding good practice for complex programmes and making considerate use of AI
- Evaluate with purpose: from applying principles and criteria to drafting concise Terms of Reference and how to turn validated findings into useful conclusions and recommendations
- Use monitoring and evaluation to harvest lessons that support adaptive management.