Design, Monitor & Evaluate Development Projects That Get Results & Attract Donor Support
- How Confident Are You That Your Projects Are Relevant And On-Target?
- Do You Know What To Do At Each Step Of The Planning Process?
- And How Do We Ensure M&E Is Carried Out Smoothly, So The Project Stays On-Track?
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A Poorly Planned Project Will Always Fail To Deliver **
Successful projects have to meet stakeholders' needs and align to donors' interests. And they need to be built around a logical chain of results. If we don't get the planning right, a project will miss the mark from the start. It can promise results that cannot be delivered, or fail to achieve its full potential.
Poor Monitoring Leads To Poor Decisions
We need to ensure that our team consistently collects data on the right things using the right methods at the right time. But without a comprehensive M&E plan, projects will always go off track. That means outcomes not achieved, chasing after data and extra cost to the project.
Communities Lose Out, Donors Become Dissatisfied And Project Teams Pull In Different Directions
It's a simple fact that a well-designed and well-monitored project will get better results - while poor design and inadequate monitoring lead to:
- Poor outcomes for target groups
- Lack of support from donors
- Poorly performing project teams
And while RBM has been a top priority of the United Nations and other donor agencies since 2005, many organisations are still planning and monitoring projects in the same old way.
A Results-Based Approach
Imagine being able to consistently deliver projects that achieve real, measurable results - the kind of results that address the needs of communities and stakeholders, and align with your donors' strategic objectives.
Imagine having an M&E plan in place, from the very start, so that you can measure progress towards those results. The whole team know what they are doing; data collected flows to where it is needed - when it is needed; and managers can make those vital decisions that steer a project to a successful outcome.
Results-Based Management gives us a framework to:
- Better plan interventions that create positive, measurable outcomes for stakeholders
- Meet donor requirements for relevance, effectiveness and value-for-money
- More easily track progress and steer projects towards success
- Get your project teams working together towards a common purpose
About This Course
This flexible, self-paced, practical course will teach you how to:
- Apply the Results-Based Management philosophy and principles to drive highly impactful development results
- Use the Logical Framework Approach (LFA) to easily design, monitor and evaluate humanitarian and community development projects
- Use RBM and LFA in a collaborative way to consistently deliver a high level of positive, measurable change that will keep your stakeholders and donors satisfied
Clear, Straightforward & Practical
While you will get all the theory you need, we want you to learn the steps and tools in a way that you can apply time after time after the course is over.
This means creating your own project from scratch - from problem identification through designing the project right through to building your M&E plan .
And we know development practice can often be very confusing. We take current best-practice and explain it in the most clear way possible - cutting through to what's important in ways you can understand and apply.
What's In The Course?
You will learn a step-by-step method you can use every time to identify, plan and monitor projects. This practical course will teach you how to:
- Design your own results-based project from start to finish
- Build a Monitoring & Evaluation plan so everyone knows what they are doing
How It Works
As soon as you enroll you get immediate, lifetime access to a step-by-step course full of short, clear and practical videos, examples, case studies, discussions and tasks, along with handouts, templates and all the reference materials you will ever need - all downloadable so you don't miss a thing.
The course is self-paced - which means you decide how many hours a week, when you study, and when you complete. You work at your own speed, giving you enough time to actually test out what you learn and seek support if you have any issues. (Including the tasks, it should take 30 - 40 hours to fully complete the course).
During the course you can leave comments and questions for the trainer, and respond to other participants' comments.
When you reach the end of the course you also get one-to-one, personal feedback on your project plan and M&E Plan, so your certificate is based on real achievement.
How to register:
Sign up at https://eldtraining.teachable.com/p/mfr