Project Management and Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit

Dates:

• 21 October - 1 November 2024 - London (£4,450)
• 9 - 20 June 2025 - London (£4,750)
• 15 - 26 September 2025 - London (£4,750)

This toolkit course combines the following courses:

Best Practice Project and Programme Management - 5 days

Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation - 5 days

Trained project and programme management practitioners are essential for the successful delivery of strategic outcomes, however, as professionals from a range of disciplines become increasingly involved in projects, all managers now need a good understanding of the principles of sound project management.  Results-Based M&E (RBM&E) enables the public sector to focus its efforts on monitoring performance rather than just spending, and on evaluating long term results rather than short term outputs.

In week one of this course, delegates will learn best practice project and programme management, as a tried and trusted set of practical techniques, tools, skills and knowledge to help ensure your programmes and projects deliver targeted outcomes and outputs. They will explore how to effectively start, plan, manage and control a complex project and examine how to identify and overcome the common causes of project failure thereby increasing their chances of successful implementation.

In week two, this course will equip participants with the knowledge to understand where and how M&E fits within the organisational or national framework, and the strategies required for its successful design, build and integration.

Course Objectives

On completion, you will be able to:

• Define, appraise, plan, implement and control programmes and projects
• Devise and deliver strategic benefits to your organisation
• Effectively supervise, monitor and evaluate a range of programmes and projects
• Understand the essentials of M&E, how to design and implement an M&E system and the factors involved in setting up an M&E unit
• Know where and how M&E fits within the organisational or national framework and strategies for successful integration
• Set up a database to collect, analyse, interpret and report on performance
• Design monitoring systems incorporating routine and ad-hoc data collection and reporting techniques

Key Topics

• Organisational goals and scope of projects and programmes
• Identify, analyse and engage stakeholders
• Project phases and tools for project planning, scheduling and control
• Identify and track benefits and risks
• Team management in a project environment
• Systematic monitoring, tracking and reporting on progress
• From traditional financial reporting towards results-based performance management
• RBM&E methods and performance indicators
• Building a national M&E system or organisational M&E unit
• M&E for improvements in value for money
• Computerised M&E and database management systems