Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning & Impact
A practical M&E and learning programme that helps NGO and humanitarian teams connect activities to results, develop meaningful indicators, collect and analyze data, evaluate programmes, and use evidence to improve impact.
What this programme addresses
This workshop strengthens the ability of NGOs and humanitarian organizations to design and operate practical monitoring, evaluation and learning systems. Participants connect organizational goals and programme activities to outputs, outcomes and impact, develop meaningful indicators, design data-collection approaches, analyze results, conduct evaluations and use evidence to improve decision-making and programme performance.
Workshop objectives
- Apply results-based management principles to connect organizational goals, project activities, outputs, outcomes, and intended impacts.
- Develop meaningful indicators and performance measures that clearly assess project progress, effectiveness, efficiency, outcomes, and impact.
- Design effective data-collection approaches by identifying appropriate data sources, methods, tools, responsibilities, and quality-control measures.
- Analyze and interpret programme data to identify trends, performance gaps, successes, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
- Apply evaluation techniques to assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, and outcomes of NGO programmes and projects.
- Use monitoring, evaluation, and learning findings to improve organizational impact by translating evidence and lessons learned into better decisions, programme adjustments, resource allocation, and future planning.
Recommended participants
- Monitoring and Evaluation Officers
- M&E Managers
- Programme Managers
- Project Managers
- Project and Programme Officers
- Executive Directors and NGO Leaders
- Results and Performance Officers
- Data and Research Officers
- Learning and Knowledge Management Personnel
- Grant Managers
- Donor Reporting Personnel
- Community Development Managers
- Humanitarian Programme Staff
- Strategic Planning Personnel
- Staff responsible for programme evidence, reporting or impact measurement
Best suited for
Monitoring and evaluation officers, programme managers, project managers, NGO leaders, results specialists, and other professionals responsible for measuring programme progress, outcomes, impact and organizational learning.
How the learning can be applied
Especially valuable for organizations that need to strengthen results frameworks, indicators, data quality, evaluation, donor reporting, organizational learning, programme accountability and evidence-based decision-making.
Key topics
- Results-based management
- Results chains and logic models
- Inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and impact
- Indicator development
- Performance measurement
- Data-collection planning
- Data quality
- Programme data analysis
- Evaluation approaches
- Learning and adaptive management
- Impact measurement
- Evidence-based decision-making