Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for Development Professionals
MEL4DP is a five-month long extensive certificate course designed to enhance MEL knowledge, skills, and perspectives of early and mid-career development professionals located in or working for the global south. This course will be extremely beneficial for professionals seeking to build skills in evidence-based policymaking and program development, set up MEL systems within organizations, or mark a career transition to monitoring and evaluation.
Starting from 29 October , 2022
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Course Structure
| 29 October 2022 | Introduction to MEL | 1 Week |
5 November 2022, 12 November 2022, 19 November 2022 | Locating MEL in a project cycle and theory of change | 3 Weeks |
| 26 November 2022 | Contexts of Monitoring and Evaluation | 1 Week |
| 3 December 2022 | Monitoring for Program and Policy Ecosystems – I | 1 Week |
| 10 December 2022 | Monitoring for Program and Policy Ecosystems – II | 1 Week |
17 December 2022 7 January 2023 14 January 2023 | Evaluation approaches and frameworks | 3 Weeks |
21 January 2023 28 January 2023 | Evaluation Design | 2 Weeks |
4 February 2023 11 February 2023 18 February 2023 4 March 2023 | Doing evaluation: Data collection, methods, sampling, and Analytics | 4 Weeks |
| 5 March 2023 | Workshop I: Quantitative analysis (Optional) | |
| 11 March 2023 | Learning and utilization of evaluation | 1 Week |
| 12 March 2023 | Workshop II: Storytelling and visualisation | |
| 18 March 2023 | Course project and convocation. | 1 week |
* Level of effort 4 hours per week
Course Fee
700 USD
Complete and partial scholarships will be available to some candidates
Discounts on course fee in case of institutional sponsorships & participants from grassroot organizations
Duration: 29 October 2022 – 18 March 2023
Total Seats: 30
Last date to Apply: 10 October 2022
Course Details
- Provide conceptual clarity on MEL through a practitioner’s lens.
- Equip participants with the knowledge and practical skills to plan, conduct, and manage effective M&E of programs to facilitate continuous learning and program improvement.
- Contextualize the application of existing MEL frameworks and approaches by drawing from case studies and examples from the global south.
- Build critical perspectives on various aspects of MEL practice and theory,
- Foster cross-sectoral and cross-disciplinary dialogues by using examples from different sectors and theories that have emerged from different disciplines.
- Create a space for peer-learning, collective thinking, and networking for early-career development professionals.
- Practitioners’ lens: developed and facilitated by MEL practitioners & experts, for practitioners.
- Multi-sectoral perspective: uses case studies & real-world examples from different sectors
- Real-world examples: application-based interactive learning through classroom activities
- Context specific: builds critical perspective for the global south
- Merit-cum-means scholarship: scholarships and discounts offer available
- Mixed method approach: uses hands on tools and approaches from quantitative and qualitative perspective.
- Weekend learning for working professionals: tailored for early career professionals with weekend classes
- Differentiate between Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning, and gain a nuanced understanding of MEL vocabulary, contextualize MEL in Program Cycles, and define pathways of change using Theory of Change approaches,
- Gain an understanding of different monitoring typologies, use publicly available datasets for monitoring, and construct interactive monitoring dashboards,
- Define and utilize different evaluation approaches, frameworks, and designs and Keep pace with contemporary trends in evaluations,
- Practically implement an evaluation by developing an understanding of Evaluation Cycles, Implementation, Designs, Methods, and Tools, and
- Harvest learnings from evaluations, and utilize them for continuous program improvement.
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Certificate Course:
Upon completion of course modules and capstone, students will be awarded a course completion certificate
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