Results-based project monitoring and evaluation systems provide feedback on the actual outcomes and goals of government programmes and projects. Results-based systems require answers to questions like:

1. What higher-order objectives and expected outcomes has the department set?
2. Have measurable outcomes and impacts been achieved?
3. Are these outcomes and impacts sustainable?

From this point of departure, it is essential that leaders, managers, teams, and individuals in organizations, public and private, develop their skills to understand, track and report on monitoring and evaluation. This course on Project Monitoring and Evaluation will empower you to understand, direct and implement the phases of a robust and results-based Monitoring and Evaluation framework.

Upon completing this course, the participants should be able to:
Develop an understanding of Project Monitoring and Evaluation and how these tools fit into the related processes of strategic management, project management, and policy implementation;
Learn about the Government-wide Project Monitoring and Evaluation framework and other related guidelines (Stats SA, Presidency indicators, etc)
Understand key Project Monitoring and Evaluation concepts, processes, and practices
Understand a results-based management approach
Understand and apply problem analysis tools
Design a results chain and work-breakdown structure and Gantt Chart
Understand Monitoring and Evaluation indicators
Understand data collection and data analysis for Project Monitoring and Evaluation
How to set up a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
Evaluation types, concepts, and tools

Course Schedule
Introduction and course overview
Organizational performance management
Project Monitoring and Evaluation concepts and context
Preparing for Project Monitoring and Evaluation in your work processes and projects
Developing a work-breakdown structure
Developing and selecting appropriate indicators for project outputs and outcomes;
Linking your indicators to baselines, milestones, and targets
Setting up a monitoring and evaluation framework;
Build capacity for Project Monitoring and Evaluation in your teams – responsibilities, delegations, and quality
Facilitate team performance improvements using assessment findings;
Establish performance standards and monitoring systems – linking individual and organizational processes
Understand methods and tools for basic data collection;
Understand methods and tools for basic data analysis;
Understand the key uses of monitoring data: project management, evaluation, and reporting;
Understand the difference between process and outcome evaluation practices; and
Develop project evaluation reports.

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This course will present an overview of the major techniques for impact evaluation (with a practical guide to using them and the assumptions under which they are valid) and focus on the design, execution, analysis, and interpretation of randomized field experiments.

This course will also show how qualitative methods can be combined with quantitative methods to both measure the impact of interventions and understand the processes and mechanisms underlying that impact. It will briefly introduce methods to collect qualitative data such as open-ended interviews, Participatory Appraisal Methods, Focus Group Discussions, and textual data. It will also introduce methods for analyzing that data, including coding systems and structures, and text-as-data methods.

And it will show how qualitative methods can be integrated with quantitative methods by studying papers using mixed-methods analysis for different topics and contexts.

Who is it for?
This short course is designed for researchers, teachers, and consumers of impact evaluation and will provide opportunities for discussion of practical issues in implementing each of these techniques.
The goal is to get participants comfortable with reading and evaluating papers using these techniques, implement them in your own research, and teach them to your students in advanced undergraduate and master’s courses.

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