Monitoring and Evaluation Human Resources Department for Growth

Monitoring & Evaluation is an important management function in today’s business, NGO and government landscape. Monitoring and Evaluation systems essentially focus on the tracking and evaluation of organizational performance. Governments, as well as business managers are increasingly challenged to provide evidence for whether their projects or policies are achieving clearly defined outcomes and impacts.

CONTENT

• Introduction and course overview
• Organisational performance management
• Monitoring and evaluation concepts and context
• Preparing for M&E 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 M&E 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.

FOR WHOM:

Human Resources Managers, Admin Managers, Senior Managers, Directors, Admin Officers and others who perform related functions.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.