Description

Course Objectives

By the end of this course the participants should be able to:

• Learn the application of M & E in health programs
• Using a logical framework to design a health project
• Establish the indicators and targets for every result level
• Learn to track all indicators throughout the project life cycle
• Evaluate health projects with respect to the planned outcomes
• Establish and utilize M & E systems
• Create a plan on monitoring and evaluation

Course Content

• Introduction to Strategic Information in Health Programs
• Information in health programs
• Strategic information in health programs
• Strategic information utilization
• Project life cycle and Strategic information
• Decision making
• M&E System in Health Programs
• Importance of M & E system in health programs
• Utilization of M & E system in health programs
• M & E system in health programs content
• M&E introduction
• Understanding Monitoring and Evaluation
• Importance of M & E
• Principle and components of M & E
• M&E in program lifecycle
• Roles of M & E
• Frameworks of M & E
• Logical Framework Analysis (LFA)
• Results Frameworks
• Conceptual Frameworks
• LogFrame – Design of projects using LogFrame
• Indicators of M&E Health
• Selection of Indicators
• Indicator metrics
• Correlating indicators to results
• Indicator matrix
• Indicator tracking
• M&E Gender perception for Health Programs
• Importance of gender in M&E
• Integration of gender to health program
• Gender indicators
• Gathering gender
• Analysis of M & E for gender perception
• Project appraisal for gender perception
• Challenges of integrating gender and M & E in health programs
• Evaluation of Health Programs
• Evaluation process
• Evaluation designs
• Process of performance evaluation
• Findings and sharing of evaluation
• Impact Evaluation in Health Programs
• Utilization of health program data
• M & E practices
• M & E reports
• M & E results

Training Format:

• All materials are made available through our online learning platform
• Students should commit approximately 5-6 hours of their time per week

Assignments:

In order to demonstrate their understanding of the course content, students will be required to submit assignments at the end of every month.