Monitoring & Evaluation for Organisational Performance

Why this programme?
Monitoring and evaluation are important management tools to track the organisational progress, performance and facilitate decision making. It contributes towards good governance in terms of, improved accountability and transparency, improved evidence-based budget decision making, policy development and management to mention a few. This programme is designed for individuals in management level of both private and public organisations who require the knowledge and skills to effectively monitor and evaluate organisational performance.

Target Audience
This programme is designed to prepare and enable individuals at management levels to acquire knowledge, skills and competencies in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) in the public and private sectors in order to effectively monitor and evaluate organisational performance.

Admission Requirements
Applicants should have a completed diploma at NQF Level 6 / second year post Matric, be proficient in English and preferably employed within an M&E or Strategic Management environment- ideally for not less than six (6) months. A Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) process could be considered if an applicant is not in possession of the required qualification.

Duration
The total programme duration is 5 days / forty (40) contact hours.

Programme Outcomes

• Improved understanding of the role and scope of M&E in context of a given sector.
• Contextualised M&E within the broader planning process in the client sector
• Improved design of the basics of an M&E system in the client sector
• Improved ability and competency to undertake an evaluation of projects/policies/programmes in each sector.

Programme Overview:

• Monitoring And Evaluation Defined
• Legal and Policy Framework
• Monitoring And Evaluation Concepts
• Purposes of Monitoring and Evaluation
• Principles of Monitoring and Evaluation
• Evaluation Perspectives
• Government-Wide Monitoring and Evaluation Roles & Responsibilities

• Contextualise Monitoring and Evaluation within the Broader Planning Process
• Planning, Budgeting and Reporting

• Developing a result- based Monitoring and Evaluation System

• Step 1: Conduct a readiness assessment
• Step 2: Specify the intervention
• Step 3: Selecting key indicators
• Step 4: Establish baseline data on indicators
• Step 5: Planning for improvement – selecting results targets
• Step 6: Select a data collection strategy
• Step 7: Monitoring of Data
• Step 8: Using Monitoring Data
• Step 9: Evaluation: Evaluation process, undertaking specific types of evaluation and developing a departmental evaluation plan
• Step 10: Sustaining the M&E system within an organisation

Apply by: 05 November 2021
Start date: 09 November 2021
• Schedule: 09, 11, 15, 17, 18, 22, 24, 25, 29 November 2021 & 01, 02, 06, 08 December 2021Times: 09:00 – 12:00
• Venue: Remote Classes presented via Zoom
• Costs: R6500.00 per person
• Apply: Send an email to execedpe@mandela.ac.za or contact Venean Bosch at venean.bosch@mandela.ac.za
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