Course Overview
In order to meet standards, organizations demand higher accountability for development-project funds and transparency regarding a program’s results. It’s understood now that you’re more likely to receive future funding if you can demonstrate how a program performs. That’s why employees who have specialized Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) skills are in demand. This key knowledge helps to assess a project or program’s performance and its lasting impact.
Project monitoring has the task of establishing sufficient controls over a project and to ensure that it stays in track in terms of achieving its objects and serves purposes for the various stakeholders. Project monitoring is an integral part of day to day management of projects. It provides information by which the project implementers can identify problems, and solve them or assess progress.
Course Objectives
The program provides students with competencies in the following areas:
- International development project design and implementation
- Monitoring and evaluation methods
- Quantitative and qualitative research methods for field-based monitoring and evaluation
- Historical contexts and critiques of monitoring and evaluation
- Innovations and the practice of impact evaluation for organizational learning
- Management of monitoring and evaluation functions and teams
The program will include opportunities to learn monitoring and evaluation techniques that are connected:
- To specific sectors and are connected to the values of the organizations, including
- health, economic development, gender, youth, environment, education, and government.