Practical Tools for Monitoring and Evaluation of Project/Program

Monitoring and evaluation are essential to improving project/program efficiency and effectiveness. It is usually required by the donor board of directors as part of the project management cycle. In most cases of the proposal for the grant, investment fund, the M&E should be well defined to ensure the great impact of the project/. program It helps organizations/entities to understand to what extent they have achieved what they intended to achieve. The monitoring allows the project team to make appropriate decisions on a day-to-day basis and ensures that projects/program are carried out as planned and modified when necessary, while the evaluation enables manager as well as donor and/or board director to understand and demonstrate the results of the project/program team’s work, determine the best strategies for achieving the objectives and document lessons learned to improve future programs.

  • The difference between project and program
  • Reviewing the project management cycle
  • Who is involved? why stakeholder is important  
  • Typical content of project document/project charter
  • Why do we need to understand the results chain?
  • How to verify results chain, If-Then concept
  • Results statement in relation to stakeholder
  • Understanding external factors, assumptions, and risks

 

  • Conceptual of the M&E Framework
  • Assigning SMART indicators for each level of results
  • How to define the target, source of data, methods, frequency
  • How to verify the M&E framework/plan and implement it
  • Tool for monitoring, how to 
  • Tool for evaluation, how to
  • Review data collection methods, pros, and cons
  • On-line survey, telephone interview and a face-to-face interview, observation technique
  • Steps in data analysis, how to prepare
  • Quantitive data analysis, how to
  • Qualitative data analysis, make it easy
  • Typical structure of reporting and procedure
  •  Data presentation in M&E report
  • Key questions for communication and stakeholder
  • Communication-based on audience assessment
  • Some practical tools for today communication

Nguon Chamnit

Operations Manager of European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia

Mr. Nguon Chamnit has over 9 years of program/project design, planning, and management, community development, research, monitoring and evaluation with the NGO sector in Cambodia. Currently, he is in charge of Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Officer of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), responsible for Malaria and TB-Global Fund Grant. He a strong skill in Monitoring and Evaluation technical and extensive experience in leading the whole process of monitoring, evaluation, baseline, and end-line survey. He has practical skill inexperience in the M&E system and framework design, planning, methodology and tools, data collection, data analysis, and report writing. 

His Education: 

  • He holds a master’s degree in development management.

 

Work Experience History:

  • Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Officer-Global Fund Grant (CRS-Cambodia)
  • Monitoring and Evaluation Officer-EU Grant (Plan International Cambodia)
  • Design, Monitoring and Evaluation ProgramOfficer (responsible for Baseline and Evaluation-World Vision Cambodia)
  • National M&E Officer-Multi Donors Grant (National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development (NCDD)-Secretariat)
  • Short Term Consultancy Service Provided:
  • Developing Life Skill Guidebook for Adolescent and Youth, NGOCRC-UNICEF funding project
  • Market Assessment, Fishery Collective Center Study, ICCO
  • Final Project Evaluation, KYSD-ForumSyd funding project
  • Baseline Study, Empowering Women through improving Livelihood Project, Banteay Srei-UNWOMEN funding
  • Youth Models Review for World Vision Cambodia, 2016
  • KAP survey study for the Project Improving Community Base Child Mechanism, CCASVA organization; funding by ChildFund Cambodia
  • Training consultant to Khmer Youth Association
  • Training consultant to WOMEN organization
  • Final Project Evaluation, Dialogue on Democracy Project Gender Base ViolenceProject - Open Institute
  • This course provides participants with the key elements needed to make their M&E work.
  • Learn to develop and implement an M&E framework set forth in a project document.
  • Learn how to set appropriate indicators at each level of results, develop mock forms to collect data, making an analysis and communicating the results.
  • The participant will understand a project as unique in that it is not a routine operation, but a specific set of operations designed to accomplish a singular goal.

 

These practical tools are for any Project/Program Managers/Directors, Supervisor, Evaluator, M&E chief officers who have recently been appointed to manage a project and anyone who is new to the project/program monitoring and evaluation, implementation. This course is essential for those, who facing difficulty to design and implement their M&E framework/plan to support day-to-day decision- making as well as organizational accountabilities and learning for their donor and/or board of director future funding and/or investment.

Course Detail

  • Trainer :Nguon Chamnit
  • Class Start :26 Nov 2016
  • Class End :27 Nov 2016
  • Seat Availble :25 Seats
  • Time : 08:00 - 05:00
  • Fee :245 $
  • Early Bird : 195 $
  • venue :Hotel/Restuarant