Monitoring and Evaluation for Governance

Why Attend

The approaches used in implementing governance-leadership are important in determining whether the company’s objectives are being met effectively. When the goals of the governance-leadership strategy are reviewed, the company can tell if the objectives are being met. Definite scores, such as one to nine, are assigned to the expected results of governance-leadership initiatives. A low score implies that the effectiveness of governance-leadership is low.

M&E is an approach that has mainly been developed to measure and assess the success and performance of projects, programs or entire organizations. These two concepts are of core importance while putting together your proposal.

This course on Monitoring and Evaluation for Governance gives a useful basis to develop effective frameworks for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of development plans, budgets, programs, and projects. The course adopts a perspective of using M&E to improve governance and looks at the M&E system too

Overview

Course Outline

Schedule & Fees

Course Methodology

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Course Objectives

By the end of the M&E for Governance course participants will be able to:

Develop a concise understanding of M&E concepts, principles, processes and framework for governance programmes.
Achieve a sound understanding of the role that M&E can play in improving project and programme management as well as policy decision making.
Develop insight into the different stages of the evaluation process and tools
Get familiar with challenges and tools for monitoring and evaluating
Get tips on how to use PM&E tools for strengthening the capacities of stakeholders of decentralization at the national and local level and for strengthening accountability systems at the municipal level.
Define the Theory of Change and Critical pathway
Identify and develop governance performance indicators
Develop and design M&E system/framework for governance programme.
Assess the relevance and effectiveness of different tools and methods applied in monitoring and evaluating governance programmes.

Target Audience

The M&E for Governance course is ideal for:

⦁ Government officials and Development advisors involved in the design, implementation, management and oversight of national and sector plans, budgets, programs and projects.
⦁ Programme managers; Program staff in charge of monitoring governance projects; practitioners working in civil society organizations, governmental agencies involved with M&E and those interested in M&E.
⦁ It especially targets staff in Monitoring and Evaluation units within Government Ministries as well as Parliamentarians and other oversight agencies.

Target Competencies

DAY 1: Overview of Monitoring and Evaluation

Definition of Monitoring and Evaluation
Importance of Monitoring and Evaluation
Purposes of Monitoring and Evaluation
Governance, Leadership & Public Value
Development Interventions
Key principles and concepts in M&E
M&E in project lifecycle
Complementary roles of Monitoring and Evaluation

DAY 2: M&E for governance programs

Evaluation Process
Evaluation Criteria
Developing Evaluation Questions
Evaluation findings sharing and dissemination

DAY 3: Data demand and use in Governance Programs

Document of M&E Lessons learnt and Best Practices
Information Sharing
Setting performance indicators
Developing governance general performance frameworks/M&E system
M&E tactics and applications for governance programs

DAY 4: Evaluating governance programme

Managing Monitoring as well as Evaluation Practice
Impact Evaluation Designs
Implementation of Impact Evaluations in Governance programs
Monitoring Systems
Project Cycle management
Participatory Evaluation and Monitoring

DAY5: Public Performance and Finance Budgeting

Building necessary statistical and also analytical capacities
Communicating and reporting M&E results
Focus on several recent trends and also interesting practices
The significance of strategic alliances as well as harmonized approaches
Data demand and use in Governance Programs
Document of M&E Lessons learnt and Best Practices

Arusha

Arusha (Tanzania)2025-11-17$1995

Kigali

Kigali (Rwanda)2026-06-15$2100