The British Academy for Training and Development offers a professional training course in Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation. Good project management is the foundation of project impact and essential to achieving results for development and humanitarian organizations. This course is a comprehensive review of project design, planning, and project management. Our project management course is designed to provide participants with enhanced competencies in development organizations. The highly interactive course uses a collaborative learning approach, based on various case studies and real-life examples. It considers the latest developments in project planning, project execution, project management, financing, monitoring and evaluation. This course is suitable for those who are already familiar with project management in humanitarian aid or development cooperation.

Project management involves planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources for the successful completion of specific project goals. This course covers project management methodologies, toolsets, and project analysis, needs analysis/planning, design, project execution, log frame development, work planning, indicators, inputs, outputs, understanding results, monitoring and evaluation. Describes the documents it contains. This course is provided by a team of internationally experienced Managers.

Who should attend? 

• Those who are already familiar with project Management in Humanitarian Aid or Development Cooperation.
• Project Managers in the Public and Private Sectors.
• Project Management Team Members.
• Project Supervisors.
• Project Monitors.
• Entrepreneurs.

How attendees will benefit? 

After completion of the course, delegates will understand: 

• Understand key aspects of project design, planning, implementation,
  Administration, Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Understand how to design, implement, monitor and evaluate projects.
• Train learners on how to link and translate logical frameworks for clear and transparent budgets and simple work schedules.
• Use a logical framework to design effective monitoring and evaluation systems to track and report results for individual organizations.
• Understand best practice techniques for managing projects, monitoring, and evaluation.

• Introduction to Project Management.
• Project Design and Planning, Indicators.
• Project Implementation.
• Budgeting.
• Work plan Development.
• Project Finance.
• Log Approach to Project Planning and Execution.

Contents of Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation Terms and Concepts.
• Difference Between Monitoring and Evaluation.
• The Need for Monitoring and Evaluation in Development Projects.
• Monitoring all Processes of the Project Cycle.
• Identifying Metric Types and Outcome Metrics
• Plan.

Monitoring and Evaluation Framework: 

• Types of Frameworks.
• Role in Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation Plan
• Features of an M&E Plan.

Key Elements of an M&E Plan:

• Criteria of an M&E Plan.
• Some of the Complexities of M&E Plan.
• Overview of How the M&E plan Implemented.
• Data Collection, Acquisition and Data Quality Checks.
• Identify Types of Data Collection Tools.
• Identify Types of Tools at Each M&E Level.
• Definition of Data Collection.
• Identify Critical Steps in Data Collection.
• Definition of Data Quality.
• Quantitative Methods.
• Qualitative methods.
• Data Analysis, Interpretation and Reporting.
•  The Role of Data Analysis in Monitoring and Evaluation
•  Types of Data Analysis.
• Data Interpretation.
•  Decide Which Reporting Methods to use.
• How to Write an Effective M/E Report.