COURSE BRIEFS
DIPLOMA IN MONITORING AND EVALUATION FOR HUMANITARIAN PROGRAMS & PROJECTS.
Africa Center for Project Management is pleased to announce Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation for Humanitarian Programs & projects. This is both an online and Distance Learning Course, which starts 1st of every month.
Overall Course Overview:
The course aims at outlining the fundamental principles and methodologies for program monitoring and evaluation while underscoring the practical application for humanitarian practitioners, Aid workers and researchers.
Concrete conceptual frameworks for mixed methods use (both qualitative and quantitative) in program monitoring and evaluation.
Methodological and implementation challenges as well as applications in program assessment, impact, development, interventions, and overall implementation.
Introduction to the capabilities of the new digital tools, methods and research resources for increasing quality and efficiency of data collection, access, analysis, and visualization.
- Understand the principles underlying the selection of an appropriate design for program evaluation and monitoring;
- Understand how to design research tools, identify data sources and methods used to acquire information to assess program impact;
- Able to design a strategy to monitor a program and/or assess impact;
- Critically analyze both the opportunities and the limitations that emerge when working with digital technology for program monitoring and evaluation
At the end of this course the participant will be able to:
Target Audience
NGO and UN workers, national and local government disaster preparedness planners, and other professionals involved in the development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian programs.
- Introduction to Multi-level Mixed Method Evaluations
- Theory of Change, Log Frame and Program Monitoring
- Program Monitoring
- Introduction to Impact Evaluation / Comparison of Evaluation Designs
- Impact Evaluations: Randomized Impact Evaluations
- Humanitarian and Measurement Concepts
- Minimizing Error and Bias
- Sampling
- Analysis and Threats
- Introduction to Digital Research and Assessment Methods
- Ethical Issues
- Practical Issues in Data collection
There are four assignments (continuous assessment tests),research paper and one examination to be offered at the end of the course. Assignments account for 40%,research paper counnts for 30% while Examination accounts for 30% of the mark. Upon completion of the course you shall be issued with a Diploma Certificate and a course transcript.
Examination
Certificate and Transcripts will be sent after successful completion of the course.
DURATION AND COURSE LOAD: 24 Weeks - 5 to 6 hours per week
DATES: (Six Months) Course Starts 1st of Every Month.
PARTICIPANTS: Development Professionals
REGIONS TARGETED: Global
ORGANIZERS: Africa Center for Project Management
LANGUAGE: English only
FORMAT: Web-based and Distance Learning facilitated
GENERAL COURSE CONTACT: info@onlinelearningcentre.org
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