Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning Training

Overview

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) or sometimes summarized as Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) are an essential part of every organization’s work and a requirement for almost all donor funded projects. Thus INGOs, NGOs, CSOs and local community groups needs to know how to develop proper MEAL policies, procedures, frameworks, plans and to implement them successfully along with doing the needed baselines, mid-term evaluations, end-line evaluations, impact assessments, lessons learned exercises to feed into future programming. All those cannot be kept for trial and error but rather require a well trained and equipped team to know how to implement them up to international best practices and ensures that the organization is in compliance with the donor requirements and international standards. Accordingly, this training is developed to empower participants with all the need to excel in their MEAL work whether they are working at a Donor agency, INGO, NGO, CSO, local community organization or even an M&E Consultant.

Target Group

This training course is targeting MEAL Managers, Coordinators, Project & Program Managers, Proposal & Grant Writers, M&E Consultants, Researchers, Data Collection Officers & Enumerators and Researchers in international NGOs, development organizations, local NGOs and Community Based Organizations.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the MEAL and its related components
• Know what should be included in an organizational MEAL Policy & Procedures Manual
• Understand how to develop a Project/Program MEAL Framework & Plan
• Practice Developing LogFrames, PITT Sheets and Theory of Change
• Understand how to develop Results Measurement Frameworks
• Develop related MEAL Tools from Questionnaires, Observation Checklists, Interview Questions, Satisfaction Forms, among others.
• Know what should the Accountability Approach and the Complaint Mechanism be in an organization
• Understand the difference between Baselines, Benchmarks, Mid-Terms Evaluations, End-Line Evaluations, Impact Assessments & Lessons Learned Exercises.
• Practice linking findings of MEAL into future programming
• Know the Best practices in MEAL Report Development