This professional development workshop on monitoring and evaluation for governance provides a useful foundation to create successful frameworks for checking and analyzing the implementation of development plans, budgets, projects, and programs. The course uses a viewpoint of utilizing M&E to improve governance therefore also considers the M&E within an oversight role.

The primary framework adopted will be the logical framework or maybe logframe that is based on the results chain logic. The Logframe is something that could communicate the crucial components of a complex program, clearly, along with succinctly during the entire program or maybe the project cycle. The Logframe is utilized to produce the general style of a task, to enhance project implementation monitoring, and also to improve periodic project evaluation. The Logframe is a cause and effect type of project interventions to produce desired outcomes. The focus on a logical framework strategy offers the participant with compelling and relevant tools to evaluate and understand an extensive range of methods to calculate and assess progress in the long run.

The Evaluation and Monitoring programme seeks to enhance capacity in management, checking and evaluation. It is a reaction to the government 's need for personnel who could effectively measure outcomes and outputs of its interventions as a means of improving evidence-based decision making.

Who Can Attend

The program is the intended for Government officials and also Development advisors associated with the design, implementation, oversight, and management of national and sphere plans, budgets, projects and programs. Programme managers; Program staff members in control of checking governance projects; professionals doing work in civil society groups, governmental agencies involved with M&E and all those interested in M&E.

It focuses explicitly on staff members in Monitoring and Evaluation devices within Government Ministries along with Other oversight agencies and parliamentarians.

Objectives of training on monitoring and evaluation for governance

By the conclusion on the M&E for Governance program participants will have the ability to:

• Develop succinct comprehension of M&E principles, principles, framework and processes for governance programmes.
•  Achieve a good comprehension of the job that M&E can play in boosting project and program control and policy decision making.             
•    Develop insight into the different stages of the evaluation process and tools/ methodologies that are most appropriate in different types of evaluations.
•  Get acquainted with debates on tools and challenges for checking and evaluating support of local governance and decentralization.
•  Get suggestions on how you can utilize PM&E resources for building up the capabilities of stakeholders of decentralization on the local and national level and also for strengthening accountability devices at the municipal level.
•  Understand precisely how the log frame strategy promotes evidence based policy making; permits stakeholders being engaged in the policy cycle as well as process; supports a specific, sequenced and long term perspective; and also supports specific routes of interaction.
•  Define Theory of Change along with Critical pathway
•  Identify and produce governance performance indicators
•  Develop and develop M&E system/framework for governance program.
•  Assess the importance and usefulness of various methods and tools used in checking as well as evaluating governance programmes.

Topics To Be Covered

Module1 introduction

o   Definition of Monitoring and Evaluation

o   Importance of Monitoring and Evaluation

o   Purposes of Monitoring and Evaluation

Module 2: Monitoring and evaluation

o   M&E in the policy process

o   M&E in the planning process

o   The Government-wide M&E System

o   Important institutions with a role in M&E

o   Departments at the center of government on the national

o   Department of Public Service and Administration

o   Department of Provincial and Local Government

o   Available Statistics

Module 3: Evaluation Perspectives

o   Evaluation perspective

o   The Balanced Scorecard

o   Programme performance

o   Financial & Governance

o   Human Resource Management (HRM)

o   Ethics perspective

Module 4: Values

o      Monitoring and evaluation

o      Standards of performance from values

o      Values and principles governing public administration

o      Principles expressing some dimension of public service performance

Module 5: Evaluating Programme Performance

o   Programme evaluation

o   Logic models

o   Results-Based Management

o   Theory-based evaluation

Module 6: Implementation

o   Focusing monitoring and evaluation

o   Designing monitoring frameworks

o   Framing evaluation questions

o   Examples of monitoring and evaluation of different dimensions