Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Bootcamp – virtual and in-person
Empower yourself with knowledge and sharpen your Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning skills through our virtual MEL Bootcamp.
Course description
The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning field is continuously advancing and it’s imperative to keep up with the movement. We’ve got just the tools and skills to help you do that.
From the curious novice to the more seasoned monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) practitioner, our Bootcamp has a wide range of modules suited to your needs and level.
Course Level: Beginner – Intermediate – Advanced
Enjoy our VIRTUAL classes from the comfort of your own environment or join us for an IN-PERSON Coaching Clinic in beautiful Cape Town. Either way, you will benefit from an engaging and interactive session with your trainer and classmates as well as an opportunity to network.
Who is this for?
This course is for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Practitioners/Consultants; Emerging Evaluators; Program managers or co-ordinators; Data collectors; Communications officers/managers; and Fundraisers.
It is targeted at people working in international development, government, or local non-governmental organisations or charities.
How will this help you?
Practical and easy to implement tips and skills that will strengthen the impact of your projects
Help you collect the most useful and insightful data, and learn from it
Help you with the essential collation and reporting of project data for stakeholders, funders and beneficiaries
Improve your career prospects with tangible skills and respected certification credentials!
Our training allows you the flexibility to learn from an environment that works best for you with the benefit of engaging content, practical solutions and is engineered for active participation.
We have designed this Bootcamp to give you the best of virtual and face-to-face capacity building.
Our Bootcamp offers a modular learning approach that allows you to create your own learning journey and experience; bespoke to your needs. We have made this more affordable by giving you the opportunity to pick and pay for only the modules you choose! See the modules below.
For those who are ready for face-to-face engagement, we will offer a face-to-face coaching clinic where you have the opportunity to bring your real-life MEL case, and discuss potential solutions with consultants and peers.
We have added the opportunity to book a personalized individual coaching session or to take deeper dives into specific topics of interest to you.
Our trainers have over 150 collective years of training experience and have trained over 2,000 people in 23 different countries.
Emerging Evaluators; Evaluators; Learning facilitators; MEL coordinators; Analysts; Grantmakers; Fundraisers and those responsible for planning, monitoring, evaluating, managing and implementing programs
Entry requirements: Basic understanding of key concepts in PMEL such as results chains and objectives. We suggest you take module 1 to catch up on this.
What’s covered:
Take a dive into a popular approach to program design – Theory of Change. This module will help you understand Theory of Change as a planning approach, product and process.
The process of developing a Theory of change
Defining your impact and outcomes
Designing pathways of change
Assumptions
Module 3: Developing monitoring, evaluation, and learning plans
Emerging evaluators; Evaluators; Learning facilitators; MEL coordinators; Analysts; Grantmakers and those responsible for planning, monitoring, evaluating, managing and implementing programs
Entry requirements: Basic understanding of key concepts in PMEL such as results chains and objectives. We suggest you take module 1 to get up to speed on this.
What’s covered:
The objective of this model is to help you to systematize your MEL practice by:
Developing indicators, targets, and baselines
Plans for monitoring, evaluation, and learning (including plans for data collection, analysis, reporting, and learning)
Module 4: Measuring change – data collection for outcomes – Online
Emerging Evaluators; Evaluators; Learning facilitators; MEL coordinators; Analysts; Grantmakers; Those responsible for planning, monitoring, evaluating managing and implementing programs; Analysts; Report writers
Entry requirements: An understanding of Results-based Monitoring and Evaluation, Indicators, data collection methods are needed. Modules 1, 2, and 3 would be a great foundation for this course
What this module will cover:
Designing qualitative and quantitative tools for data collection
Interviewing hints and tips (including remote data collection)
Planning the data collection process
Ethics of data collection
Module 5: Evaluation Design – Quantitative Approaches for Evaluating Impact
Evaluators, those responsible for monitoring and evaluating programs, managing or commissioning evaluations.
Entry requirements: An understanding of Results-based Monitoring and Evaluation, Indicators, and data collection methods. If you do not have this, we recommend modules 1, 3 and 4 as good foundations for this module.
What’s covered:
This course will help you make better decisions about designing or commissioning evaluations that make a difference.
Evaluation design
Quasi-experimental approaches to outcomes and impact evaluation
Module 6: Qualitative Approaches for Evaluating Outcomes and Impact
Evaluators,those responsible for monitoring and evaluating programs, managing or commissioning evaluations.
Entry requirements: An understanding of Results-based Monitoring and Evaluation, Indicators, and data collection methods. If you do not have this, we recommend modules 1, 3 and 4 as good foundations for this module.
What’s covered:
This course will help you make better decisions about designing or commissioning evaluations that make a difference.
Most Significant Change Technique
Outcome Harvesting
Contribution Analysis
Module 7: Putting Learning back into Monitoring & Evaluation
Evaluators and program implementers responsible for designing and evaluating programs, communicating evaluation results to funders and other stakeholders
Entry requirements: Basic information on what an evaluation is and how to develop an MEL plan
What this module will cover:
This course will improve the use of your evaluation findings and contribute to better development impacts.
Stakeholder analysis and the project cycle
Stakeholder engagement for design & implementation of projects and MEL systems
Stakeholder relationships – learning and reporting – engaging stakeholders with data for decision making
Those responsible for monitoring and evaluating programs, managing or commissioning evaluations, users of evaluations, leaders of organisations.
Entry requirements: Participants will need an understanding of Results-based Monitoring and Evaluation, planning approaches, MEL planning, managing, and designing evaluations. If you do not have this, modules 1, 2, 3 and 4 will bring you up to speed.
What this module will cover:
Key concepts related to gender, intersectionality, and gender transformative evaluation
How to design, implement and use gender transformative evaluations
A set of practical measures to inform your evaluation practice to enable gender transformative program assessments
In these sessions, training participants will share practical MEL cases discuss the challenges and identify solutions together. You can bring your own MEL challenge/case or learn from others. This dynamic coaching clinic will help you think through how you can respond to MEL challenges, by applying the knowledge and skills learned in the training modules.
Dates: TBC from 09h00 until 16h00 (CAT)
Where: In Person, Cape Town
Level: Intermediate to advanced
One-on-one online coaching (1-hour session)
Our leading MEL practitioners will provide one-on-one online support tailored to your MEL needs. Let’s find solutions together, bring us a challenge to work through with you. Sessions will be scheduled daily between from 09h00 until 16h00 (CAT) to suit your needs. You select your coach from our list of available consultants
Where: Online
Who should attend? Anyone who has a particular challenge to work through
Next public course: TBC 2024
Book By: Put your name on the list for early bird registration
“The theory was very well infused with the practical and also the personal. Through small activities like the very first one to reflect on how gender has affected different aspects of our own lives – we were able to engage with the theory in an engaging way. The tech tools were easy to use and engaging as well.“
