Center for Global Affairs
Monitoring and Evaluation for Global Affairs
This course is designed to provide hands-on, real world
experience in the area of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) via case studies
of organizations that need M&E programs put into place. The course is
applied in nature and is designed for students to gain exposure to core
knowledge and practices in this field. Students are subsequently asked to
apply these gained skills to a real cases and develop all required content
of an M&E initiative. The course will introduce participants to the main
tools and techniques used to build M&E programs from beginning to
completion. This includes building the theoretical framework,
operationalizing the framework into measurable variables and indicators,
developing reliable and valid tools for data collection, designing data
collection methodology, carrying out the M&E initiative, data analysis
techniques, and report writing. Students will learn about stakeholder
engagement, including internal and external stakeholders, donors, funders,
supervisors and the populations being served. Students will organize
according to organizational/concentration interests, and will be conducting
their M&E projects in these small groups.