Monitoring and Evaluation and Impact Assessment for Food and Nutrition Security Programme

INTRODUCTION

This training programme aims to improve the effectiveness of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of Food Security and Nutrition programs through identifying and disseminating successful methods, tools and practices. This will, in turn, improve the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) skills of the personnel implementing food security and nutrition programmes in the implementing agencies.

DURATION

10 Days

TARGET AUDIENCE

This is a general training is targeting variety of programme staff, management team members and thematic staff, Project Management Officials, government officials, programme managers; policy makers and programme implementers; development practitioners and activists and NGO and CSO members, Research organizations among others for Agriculture support activities.

OBJECTIVES

The training will enable participants to;

  • Gain insight into the principles of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment in food and nutrition security.
  • Strengthen their competence in the designing, monitoring, and evaluation of FSN programs.
    Come up with clear ideas for improving monitoring, evaluation and impact assessments for food security and nutrition programs.
  • Appreciate the need to integrate gender role in the development of FSN programs.
    Gain skills in both qualitative and quantitate data collection and analysis in M&E for food security and nutrition programs.

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1: Fundamentals of Monitoring and Evaluation

  • What is M&E?
  • Significance of M&E
  • Principles and concepts in M&E
  • M&E and the project lifecycle
  • Complementary roles of monitoring and evaluation

Module 2: Food Security and Nutrition M&E Frameworks

  • Food security and nutrition conceptual frameworks
  • Food security and nutrition results frameworks
  • Logical framework analysis
  • Food security and nutrition projects design using LogFrames

Module 3: Food Security and Nutrition Indicators

  • Food security and nutrition indicators
  • Indicator metrics
  • Link between indicators and results
  • Indicator Matrix
  • FSN indicator performance tracking

Module 4: M&E System design and M&E Planning in FSN

  • Importance of an M&E Plan
  • Components of an M&E Plan
  • Design Principles for monitoring and evaluation
  • Using M&E plan to implement M&E in a project
  • M&E plan against performance management plan

Module 5: M&E Considerations for Sector Specific Programming

  • Food availability
  • Food access
  • Food utilization
  • Stability
  • Market Information

Module 6: M&E Considerations for Health and Nutrition

  • Selection of indicators
  • Integrated disease surveillance and nutrition surveillance systems
  • Nutrition

Module 7: Data Management for M&E in FSN

  • Sources of M&E data
  • Qualitative data collection methods
  • Quantitative data collection methods
  • Participatory methods of data collection

Module 8: Data Analysis

  • Data cleaning
  • Qualitative data analysis
  • Quantitative data analysis
  • Data interpretation and reporting

Module 9: Gender consideration in M&E for FSN

  • Gender integration during project activities design
  • Gender indicators in food security and nutrition programs
  • Cross-cutting gender issues in FSN
  • Role of M&E in addressing gender
  • Measure of gender outcomes

Module 10: Evaluation of Food Security and Nutrition Programs

  • Determining evaluation points from results framework
  • Components of evaluations, implementation and process evaluations
  • Evaluation designs
  • Performance evaluation process
  • Evaluation findings, sharing, and dissemination

Module 11: Impact Assessment of FSN Programs

  • Introduction to impact evaluation
  • Impact assessment in program design
  • Attribution in impact evaluation
  • Impact evaluation methods

Module 12: M&E Results Use and Dissemination

  • Use of M&E results to improve and strengthen FSN projects
  • Use of M&E Lessons learned and best practices
  • M&E reporting
  • Design, monitoring, and evaluation of resilience interventions

CERTIFICATION

  • Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be issued with Macskills Training and Development Institute Certificate

TRAINING VENUE

  • Training will be held at Macskills Training Centre. We also tailor make the training upon request at different locations across the world.

AIRPORT PICK UP AND ACCOMMODATION

  • Airport pick up and accommodation is arranged upon request

TERMS OF PAYMENT

  • Payment should be made to Macskills Development Institute bank account before the start of the training and receipts sent to info@macskillsdevelopment.com

 

Monitoring And Evaluation And Impact Assessment For Food And Nutrition Security Programme
Dates Fees Location Action
18/11/2024 - 29/11/2024 $2,450 Nairobi Physical Class
Online Class
09/12/2024 - 20/12/2024 $2,450 Nairobi Physical Class
Online Class