Evaluation Workshops/ Training

The World's Leading Project Evaluation Training at your venue or at our state of the art training venues

Objective and methodology

Our training aims to equip practitioners, project partners or external evaluators with the knowledge and expertise to be able to conduct their own planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting which is critical to any organisation or government department involved in development projects and programmes. Our training uses the Logical Framework Approach, and runs a workshop style with a high degree of participant involvement.

Delegates will be able to:

• Produce a stakeholder analysis, a problem analysis and an objective analysis, using Logical Framework Approach
• Identify outputs, activities and inputs
• Identify and develop “SMART” objectives and indicators
• Identify and develop risk factors and assumptions
• Develop a plan of action
• Develop a Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for their projects
• Know when an evaluation should take place and by whom (participatory evaluation)
• Identify appropriate qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques
• Construct an evaluation report and terms of reference

Training Outline

• Purpose and benefits of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
• The project cycle
• Introduction to the Logical Framework Approach
• Stakeholder analysis
• Problem analysis
• Objective analysis
• Alternative analysis
• Presentation of the project description in a Logical Framework Approach Matrix
• Identification of Indicators and Means of Verification
• Identification of Assumptions and Risks
• How to produce a Plan of Action
• Key concepts and approaches in evaluations (effectiveness, efficiency, impact, relevance and sustainability)
• Research, data analysis techniques and reporting
• Towards developing a M&E system
• Terms of reference