Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
Introduction to monitoring and evaluation
- Definition of Monitoring and Evaluation
- Why Monitoring and Evaluation are important
- Key principles and concepts in M&E
- M&E in project lifecycle
- Complementary roles of Monitoring and Evaluation
Agriculture and Rural Development Policy issues
- Sustainable agriculture and rural development
- Economic contribution of agriculture
- Link between agriculture and rural development
- Agriculture and food security
M&E Frameworks in Agriculture and Rural Development
- ARD Conceptual Frameworks
- ARD Results Frameworks
- Logical Framework Analysis (LFA)
- LogFrame - Design of ARD projects using LogFrame
Agriculture and Rural Development Indicators
- Indicator metrics
- Linking indicators to results
- Indicator Matrix
- ARD indicator performance tracking
- Sector-wide indicators for Agriculture and Rural Development
- Specific indicators for Sub-sectors of Agriculture and Rural Development
- Indicators for Thematic Areas related to Agriculture and Rural Development
M&E System and M&E Planning in ARD
- 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
Data Management for M&E in Agriculture and Rural Development
- Sources of Data: Information systems, surveys, participatory poverty assessments, financial management tools
- Use of different Surveys in data collection for ARD
- Participatory methods of data collection for ARD
- Data analysis for ARD
Gender integration in M&E for Agriculture and Rural Development
- Gender integration during project activities design
- Gender indicators in ARD
- Cross cutting gender issues in ARD
- Measure of gender outcomes
Performance Evaluation of Agricultural and Rural Development programs
- 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 questions
- Evaluation findings sharing and dissemination
Impact Evaluations for Agriculture and Rural Development
- Introduction to impact evaluation
- Attribution in impact evaluation
- Estimation of counterfactual
- Impact evaluation methods: Double difference, Propensity score matching
