Course Type: Short Courses
Training Provider: University of East Anglia
School/Institute/Dept./Centre: International Development UEA

The overall objective of the course is to provide participants with the competences, tools and concepts which they will need for both their present and future work in specifying and implementing cost-efficient M&E systems to support more effective decision–making across the whole range of organisational and sectoral settings.

Objectives
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) has been constantly evolving over the past thirty years. It has had to respond to changing conceptualisations of development and the various types of agency involved in developmental interventions, funding bodies, government and para-government agencies, the profit-seeking private sector, and non-governmental not-for-profit organisations.

M&E professionals need to be aware of the current debates in development thinking and the implications for information collection. For instance, how did the the Millennium Development Goals come into existence and what are the implications for developmental impact indicators.

At the heart of M&E is providing evidence for improved decision-making. This evidence can take a variety of forms – from more quantitative statistics to more qualitative case studies. A M&E professional should have competencies in gathering all kinds of data cost-efficiently,  converting them into usable information, and communicating the results effectively.

M&E professionals are expected to engage with all aspects of the managerial process from day to day Management Information Systems to final developmental impact assessments. M&E has developed into an advisory role for management alongside its original compliance oriented role for funders. The course in 2010 has been designed to meet both these demands combining institutional relational analysis alongside more conventional activities analysis.

The annual International Development UEA Monitoring and Evaluation course has had more than three hundred development professional participants from more than fifty countries since the first course in 1981.

Course contents
The course is structured to encourage participants to share their ideas through small-group work and the preparation of a work-related project.

The main four-week course will cover:

 - Concepts and definitions of M&E and its relationship to developmental thinking
 - Economics of information for effective management decision-making and practical Social Cost-Benefit Analysis
 - The role of information systems in organisational structuring and public sector reform
 - The analysis of institutional relationships and stakeholding
 - Design, analysis and critiques of planning systems from an M&E perspective, including logical frameworks
 - Data collection (both formal questionnaires and semi-structured participatory methods/focus groups)
 - Sampling methods and choosing sample size
 - Field management of data collection
 - Data analysis and attribution of intended impact
 - Effective communication
 - The course is supported by visits to, and visitors from, outside organisations with relevant experience and skills.

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Staff:
Dr John \\\\\\\'Jock\\\\\\\' Cameron has been working as an M&E professional since the early 1980s. He has worked in Africa, Asia and Oceania as a consultant on more than thirty missions for UN (FAO and ILO), regional (the EU), governmental and non-governmental organisations. Highlights of his M&E consultancy work have been evaluating food and nutrition programmes in Ethiopia and South Pacific countries; evaluating performance of non-governmental organisation programmes in Ethiopia, Ghana, Nepal, Palestine and Pakistan; designing information systems for observing livelihoods in Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal and Pakistan; and training for improved information collection, decision-making and wider dissemination by the Indian milk co-operative movement, Sudanese NGOs, Malawian government economists, Eastern European governments in transition, UK NGOs and the Community Fund, and the East Africa Statistical Training Centre in Tanzania. He has directed the International Development UEA annual Monitoring and Evaluation course nine times, starting in 1982. He is enthusiastic about the current changes in M&E towards more accessible participatory process, institution relationships focused, and quality-oriented information to inform decisions, but hard-headed about the need for accurate data and rigorous analysis to inform development policy.

Entry Requirements:
To participate effectively, it is necessary for participants to have full workshop level competence in English

Intake/Applications (previous year):
Max 25

Course Duration:
Four week full-time course Monday July 19th to Friday August 13th 2010

Language(s) of Instruction:

• English

Mode of Study:

• residential

Thematic Focus:

• Agricultural Development
• Civil Society/NGO Management
• Development Economics
• Development Finance
• Development Studies
• Environmental Issues
• Education
• Engineering Sciences
• Gender Issues
• Globalisation
• Governance
• Health/Public Health
• Human Resources
• International Relations
• Participatory Approaches
• Poverty Analysis
• Project Planning
• Rural Development
• Social Policy and Development
• Training and Training Techniques
• Urban Studies and Planning

Country(ies):

• United Kingdom

Town(s) or City(ies):
Norwich

Course fees:
4,500 to include everything (except meals). Contact devco.train@uea.ac.uk for all further details.

Further Funding Information:
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Course's Webpage:
https://www.uea.ac.uk/dev/co/prodev/Monitoring