Training Date 25 Apr - 28 Apr, 2025
Training Mode Physical
Venue Maarifa Office
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In order to achieve a world free of hunger and malnutrition, it is vital to provide sustainable solutions that provide the largest impacts on development outcomes. Monitoring and Evaluation tools and techniques plays a key role in ensuring Food Security programs are designed, implemented as plan and that they improve the well-being of the target communities. This course equips the participants with adequate skills to develop and manage robust M&E systems for effective management of FSN programs. The learner is introduced to FSN indicators, tools and techniques for M&E in FSN.

objectives

• Understand monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of FSN programs
• Design a FSN project using logical framework
• Understand Food Security and Nutrition programs specific indicators
• Track performance indicators over the life of the project
• Evaluate FSN programs against targets
• Understand gender role in M&E in FSN programs
• Conduct impact assessment of Food Security and Nutrition programs

Outline

  • Introduction to M&E

      • Definition of Monitoring and Evaluation
      • Why Monitoring and Evaluation is important
      • Key principles and concepts in M&E
      • M&E in project lifecycle
      • Complementary roles of Monitoring and Evaluation

  • Food Security and Nutrition M&E Frameworks

      • Food security and Nutrition Conceptual Frameworks
      • Food security and Nutrition Results Frameworks
      • Logical Framework Analysis (LFA)
      • LogFrame – Design of Food security and nutrition projects using LogFrame

  • Food Security and Nutrition Indicators

      • FSN indicators definition: Dietary diversity score, Food Consumption Score, Coping Strategy Index, Nutrition indicators
      • Indicator metrics
      • Linking indicators to results
      • Indicator Matrix
      • FSN indicator performance tracking

  • M&E System design and M&E Planning in FSN

      • Importance of an M&E Plan
      • Documenting M&E System in the M&E Plan
      • Components of an M&E Plan-Monitoring, Evaluation, Data management, Reporting
      • Using M&E Plan to implement M&E in a Project
      • M&E plan vs Performance Management Plan (PMP)

  • M&E Considerations for Sector Specific Programming

      • Food Security Programs: Food Availability, Seasonality, Food Access, Food Utilization
      • Health and Nutrition Programs; Selection of Indicators, sources of data, Reproductive Health
      • Integrating Cross Cutting Issues into Data Collection

  • Data Management for M&E in FSN

      • Different sources of M&E data
      • Qualitative data collection methods
      • Quantitative data collection methods
      • Participatory methods of data collection

  • Gender integration 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
      • Measure of gender outcomes

  • Evaluation of Food Security and Nutrition Programs

      • Determining evaluation points from 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 Assessment of Food Security and Nutrition Programs

      • Introduction to impact evaluation
      • Attribution in impact evaluation
      • Estimation of counterfactual
      • Impact evaluation methods: Double difference, Propensity score matching

  • M&E Results Use and Dissemination

      • Use of M&E results to improve and strengthen FSN projects
      • Use of M&E Lessons learnt and Best Practices
      • Organization knowledge champions
      • M&E reporting

Approach

This course is delivered by our seasoned trainers who have vast experience as expert professionals in the respective fields of practice. The course is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group works and case studies. Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.

Tailor-Made

We can also do this as a tailor-made course to meet organization-wide needs. Contact us to find out more: training@maarifaconsult.com / and cc maarifaconsult@gmail.com
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Fees & Payment

Fees Ugandans: UGX400000 International: USD200

The training fee covers tuition fees, learning materials, Lunch & Breakfast. Payment should be sent to our bank account before start of training and proof of payment sent to training@maarifaconsult.com /or maarifaconsult@gmail.com