In the world of monitoring and evaluation, insights are only as powerful as your ability to communicate them. This course empowers professionals to transform evaluation findings into compelling, actionable, and audience-tailored reports and presentations that drive decision-making, accountability, and institutional learning.
 
You'll build on your prior knowledge of program design and evaluation methods to master strategic communication tools, data visualization techniques, and persuasive storytelling. Through applied exercises and case studies, you'll develop and present a final evaluation product that integrates your learning and showcases your capability.
 

What You Will Learn & Be Able To Do
 

• Design evaluation reports suited to different stakeholders (donors, senior leadership, program teams)

 

• Plan a strategic communications approach for evaluation results (messaging, timing, format)

 

• Engage stakeholders early and align dissemination with organizational needs

 

• Use data visualization and dashboards to make complex findings accessible and actionable

 

• Apply principles of effective presentation and persuasion to deliver evaluation outcomes

 

• Produce a concise, audience-appropriate evaluation product (e.g. executive summary, dashboard, slide deck, infographic)

 

Why This Course Matters for Professionals
 
Evaluation results that sit unread have little impact. Employers and organizations increasingly demand professionals who can bridge evidence with action; those who can not only analyze data but also package it into strategic, usable insights. This course provides the skills to ensure your evaluation deliverables influence real-world programming, policy, and funding cycles.
 

Format & Prerequisites
 

• Delivered in a virtual format combining asynchronous weekly modules with synchronous live sessions

 

• Students must attend at least 80% of synchronous sessions

 

• Ideal for participants approaching the final term of the Certificate in Monitoring & Evaluation

 

• Prerequisite: completion (or equivalent knowledge) of evaluation design and methods coursework

 
By the end of this course, you'll walk away with a polished evaluation deliverable and the confidence to present your findings compellingly to stakeholders and decision-makers.
 

Upon completing this course and the other courses in this program, students should fill out this completion form to request certificate conferral.
Continuing Education Units (CEU) : 3

You'll walk away with

• The knowledge to draft measurable project goals, outcomes, objectives, and activities
• The skills to create a clear and concise design for a monitoring and evaluation framework
• The ability to apply new and/or additional reporting skills using infographics and presentation software
• The confidence to package and present a final work product to an audience of peers and industry experts

Ideal for

• Professionals interested in the field of monitoring and evaluation
• Students pursuing the Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation