POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MONITORING AND EVALUATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM

Post Graduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation for Public Health Program

course overview 

To make informed decisions, increase program efficacy, and strengthen advocacy for public health programmes, monitoring and evaluation assist in gathering, evaluating, and transforming health data into strategic knowledge. M&E will support ensuring that health programmes are carried out according to plan and determining whether targeted outcomes are being attained.

The purpose of this course is to increase the capacity of M&E specialists employed in the health industry. The participants’ improved planning and performance management of health programmes, as well as the institutionalisation of the gathering of health-related data and the analysis of programme impact, will be facilitated by the participants’ gained M&E abilities. The creation of monitoring and evaluation for important health sectors programme areas, such as HIV and AIDS, STDs, TB, maternal health, family planning, child health, and reproductive health, are among the main subjects covered.

Target Participants

This course is designed for researchers, project staff, development practitioners, managers and decision-makers who are responsible for the project, program, or organization-level M&E in the Health sector.

What you will learn

By the end of this course the learners should be able to:

• Understand monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of health programs

• Design a health project using a logical framework

• Develop indicators and targets for each result level

• Track performance indicators over the life of the project

• Evaluation of a health project against planned outcomes

• Develop and implement an M&E system

• Develop a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation plan

Course duration

Course Outline

Introduction to Strategic Information in Health Programs

• Need for reliable information in health programs

• Components of strategic information

• Uses of strategic information

• Strategic information and program life cycle

• Decision-making using strategic information

M&E System Strengthening for Health Programs

• Why M&E System strengthening in health?

• Use of M&E System strengthening tool

• Content of M&E System strengthening tool

Introduction to M&E

• Definition of Monitoring and Evaluation

• Why Monitoring and Evaluation are important

• Key principles and concepts in M&E

• M&E in the project lifecycle

• Complementary roles of Monitoring and Evaluation

M&E Frameworks

• Conceptual Frameworks

• Results Frameworks

• Logical Framework Analysis (LFA)

• LogFrame – Design of projects using LogFrame

M&E Health Indicators

• Indicators selection

• Indicator metrics

• Linking indicators to results

• Indicator matrix

• Tracking of indicators

M&E Plans in Health Programs

• Importance of an M&E Plan

• Documenting M&E System in the M&E Plan

• Components of M&E Plan-Monitoring and Evaluation components

• Using M&E Plan to implement M&E in a Project

Gender Perspective in M&E for Health Programs

• Importance of gender in M&E

• Integrating gender into program logic

• Setting gender-sensitive indicators

• Collecting gender disaggregated data

• Analyzing M&E data from a gender perspective

• Appraisal of projects from a gender perspective

• Issues with integrating gender into M&E

Health Programs Evaluation

• Determining evaluation points from the results framework

• Components of evaluations: implementation and process evaluations.

• Evaluation designs- experimental, quasi-experimental and non-experimental

• Performance evaluation process

• Evaluation findings sharing and dissemination

Impact Evaluation in Health Programs

• Why impact evaluation is important

• Project attribution

• Counterfactual in IE

• IE Methods; Difference in Difference & Propensity score matching

M&E Results Use and Dissemination

• Data demand and use in health programs

• Use of M&E Lessons learned and Best Practices

• Organization knowledge champions

• M&E reporting format

• M&E results in communication strategies

Training Approach

This course is delivered by our seasoned trainers who have vast experience as expert professionals in their respective fields of practice. The course is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group work, and case studies.

Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.

Certification

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be issued a certificate.