Syllabus

UNIT: 1

 Planning, monitoring and evaluation for development results  

• Introduction
• Putting planning, monitoring and evaluation together: Results-based management
• Principles of planning, monitoring and evaluating for development results
• Overview of key roles and responsibilities 

UNIT: 2

Planning for results: Practical applications

• Getting started
• Stakeholder engagement
• The planning exercises
• Finalizing the results framework (deliverable eight)
• Preparing to operationalize
• Putting it together: Planning for change

UNIT: 3 

 Planning for monitoring and evaluation      

• Introduction
• Monitoring and evaluation framework
• Resources for monitoring and evaluation
• Engagement of stakeholders in monitoring and evaluation
• Capacity for monitoring and evaluation

UNIT: 4 

Monitoring for results

• Monitoring policy of UNDP, its operational context and roles and responsibilities
• Preparing to monitor by reinforcing the initial M&E plan
• Monitor: Collection of data, analysis and reporting
• Use of monitoring data for management action and decision making

UNIT: 5 

 Evaluating for results   

• Why evaluate? Uses of evaluation
• Evaluation policy: Principles, norms and standards for evaluation
• Types of evaluation in UNDP
• Roles and responsibilities in evaluation
• Mandatory requirements for programme units 

UNIT: 6 

 Initiating and managing an evaluation

• Involvement and roles of stakeholders and partners in managing an evaluation
• Key steps in decentralized evaluations
• Key elements of the joint evaluation process

UNIT: 7 

 Assuring the quality of evaluation design and methodology

• Overview
• Defining the context
• The evaluation purpose
• Focusing the evaluation
• Evaluation methodology

UNIT: 8 

 Enhancing the use of knowledge from monitoring and evaluation

• Why use monitoring and evaluation?
• Learning and generating knowledge from monitoring and evaluation
• Knowledge products and dissemination