This toolkit course combines the following courses:

Best Practice Project and Programme Management 05 days
Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation 05 days

In week one of this course, delegates will learn best practice project and programme management, as a tried and trusted set of practical techniques, tools, skills and knowledge to help ensure your programmes and projects deliver targeted outcomes and outputs. They will explore how to effectively start, plan, manage and control a complex project and examine how to identify and overcome the common causes of project failure thereby increasing their chances of successful implementation.

In week two, this course will equip participants with the knowledge to understand where and how M&E fits within the organisational or national framework, and the strategies required for its successful design, build and integration.

Course Objectives

On completion, you will be able to:

• Define, appraise, plan, implement and control programmes and projects
• Devise and deliver strategic benefits to your organisation
• Effectively supervise, monitor and evaluate a range of programmes and projects
• Understand the essentials of M&E, how to design and implement an M&E system and the factors involved in setting up an M&E unit
• Know where and how M&E fits within the organisational or national framework and strategies for successful integration
• Set up a database to collect, analyse, interpret and report on performance
• Design monitoring systems incorporating routine and ad-hoc data collection and reporting techniques

Key Topics

• Organisational goals and scope of projects and programmes
• Identify, analyse and engage stakeholders
• Project phases and tools for project planning, scheduling and control
• Identify and track benefits and risks
• Team management in a project environment
• Systematic monitoring, tracking and reporting on progress
• From traditional financial reporting towards results-based performance management
• RBM&E methods and performance indicators
• Building a national M&E system or organisational M&E unit
• M&E for improvements in value for money
• Computerised M&E and database management systems

All courses will be conducted entirely in English. A proficient level of both spoken and written English is required by all delegates so that they are able to fully benefit from the course and participate in our interactive style of training.