Monitoring and Evaluation for Governance

On completing all course requirements:

• You will learn how to utilise the various logics, forms and approaches for the development of results-based management systems relative to local contexts.
• Designing a results-based management monitoring and evaluation system is critical to ensuring your organisation achieves its goals. Our facilitators can help you design a system that includes results indicators at all levels and robust data collection, management, and analysis processes.
• Data is the backbone of smart decision making. We will teach you how to use data to improve decision-making and enable others to do the same.

Status of certificate

• As per the Council for Higher Education (CHE), a short course that does not carry credit towards a qualification on the HEQSF cannot be assigned and allocated NQF levels and credits.

• Short courses are short learning programmes offered by higher education institutions outside their formal structured undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and they, therefore, do not lead to qualifications on the Higher Education Qualifications Sub-Framework (HEQSF). They serve a range of social and educational purposes, including improving or refreshing participants’ knowledge and skills in a particular field, improving participants’ readiness for specific formal higher education programmes, continuing professional development, learning to use technology, personal fulfilment, social development and good citizenship, to mention a few. (https://www.che.ac.za/sites/default/files/publications/CHE%20Good%20Practice%20Guide%20September%202016%20PDF.pdf)

• You will receive a Certificate of Competence on successful completion of this course.

Module 1: DEVELOPING RESULTS-BASED MONITORING AND EVALUATION SYSTEMS

This module aims to walk you through the ten steps to develop and implement a results-based monitoring and evaluation systems. This module is based upon current World Bank textbooks and teaching materials.

Module 2: ORGANISING FRAMEWORK FOR A FUNCTIONAL MONITORING AND EVALUATION SYTSTEM (A)

The purpose of this module is to introduce an organising framework for a functional Monitoring and Evaluation system. The module provides an overview of the organisational, human, planning, budgeting, communications and multi-sectoral implications of a functional monitoring and evaluation system.

Module 3: ORGANISING FRAMEWORK FOR A FUNCTIONAL MONITORING AND EVALUATION SYSTEM (B)

This module focuses on the data collection, verification and analysis that need to be undertaken in building a results-based management system.

Module 4: USING DATA TO IMPROVE DECISION MAKING

This module will focus on using monitoring and evaluation information. The skills developments focus on the analysis, political and technical skills that a person needs to have, to enable them to use data for decision-making. Decision theories in organisations are discussed, as well as research about how executives make decisions. Data use tools and techniques for data presentations are also covered.

Assessment methods:

• Formative Assessment = 50%
• Summative Assessment = 50%

• An NQF 6 or equivalent qualification.
• You should be employed in a monitoring and evaluation role and should be either a (1) Planning, monitoring and evaluation practitioner, (2) Monitoring and valuation officer in the public sector or a civil society organisation, or (3) Evaluation manager or planning specialist concerned with planning for impact.

The five modules will be delivered over five weeks in block release format. Participants will be required to attend class for three days of a week, once a month, over a period of five months.

Start date: 23 March 2024

DELIVERY SITE

• ONSITE course delivery is at the Wits School of Governance located in Parktown, Johannesburg.
• OFFSITE deliveries are offered subject to the commitment of a minimum numbers of participants being registered for the course.
• ONLINE delivery will require the participant to have connectivity and devices.
• Please note that travel and accommodation will be at the cost of the students’ respective organisations.