MEAL online training

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning - December 2024

This Monitoring, Evaluation Accountability and Learning online course is a programme specifically designed for development workers in NGOs, government, UN agencies and private sector organisations.

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome to the course!
2. Course Overview
3. Navigation
4. Accreditation and other certificates: HPass and CPD
1. Learning Journal, MEAL handbook and Groupwork Guide
2. Other Useful Resources
1. Community platforms
1. Webinar 1
2. Webinar 2
3. Webinar 3
4. Webinar 4
5. Webinar 5
6. Webinar 6
1. Supplementary reading and module slides
2. Introduction and objectives
3. Session 1: Why do we need MEAL?
4. Session 2: Learning in the project cycle
5. Session 3: The results chain
6. Exercise 1 - Results chain
7. Session 4 - Results chain example
8. Key points
9. Upload your Learning Journal (MEAL16-M1-LJ)
1. Supplementary reading and module slides
2. Introduction and objectives
3. Session 1: Defining stakeholders
4. Session 2: Stakeholder analysis
5. Key points
6. Upload your learning journal (MEAL16-M2-LJ)
1. Supplementary reading and module slides
2. Introduction and objectives
3. Session 1: Logic model basics
4. Exercise - Logic model
5. Session 2: Advice in creating logic models
6. Session 3: Logic model variations
7. Group Work
8. Key Points
9. Upload your Learning Journal (MEAL16-M3-LJ)
1. Supplementary reading and module slides
2. Introduction and objectives
3. Session 1: From logic model to framework
4. Session 2: Results frameworks
5. Session 3: From logic model to framework - an example
6. Exercise 1 - Logic model to framework
7. Session 4: Impacts, outcomes and outputs
8. Exercise 2 - Output, outcome or impact?
9. Session 5: Output, outcome or impact?
10. Session 6: Logframes
11. Session 7: The narrative summary
12. Session 8: Testing the logic
13. Key points
14. Upload your learning journal (MEAL16-M4-LJ)
15. Monitoring survey (MEAL16-M4-MS)
1. Supplementary reading and module slides
2. Introduction and objectives
3. Session 1: Assumptions
4. Session 2: Examples and practical checks
5. Session 3: Assumptions and risks
6. Exercise 1
7. Group Work
8. Key Points
9. Upload your Learning Journal (MEAL16-M5-LJ)
1. Supplementary reading and module slides
2. Introduction and Objectives
3. Session 1 - Indicators and targets
4. Session 2 - Baselines and targets
5. Session 3 - Selecting indicators
6. Session 4 - Indicator types
7. Exercise 1
8. Session 5 - Indicators for our example
9. Key points
10. Upload your Learning Journal (MEAL16-M6-LJ)
11. Quiz for Modules 1 - 6 (MEAL16-Q1)
1. Supplementary reading and module slides
2. Introduction and objectives
3. Session 1 - Data collection methods
4. Session 2 - Selecting methods
5. Session 3 - Data for the results chain
6. Session 4 - Most significant change
7. Session 5 - Sampling
8. Session 6 - Questionnaire design
9. Session 7 - Means of verification
10. Exercise
11. Session 8 - A completed framework
12. Group Work
13. Key points
14. Upload your Learning Journal (MEAL16-M7-LJ)
1. Module 8 - Supplementary Reading and module slide download
2. Introduction and Objectives
3. Session 1 - Why we evaluate
4. Session 2 - Types of evaluation
5. Session 3 - Experimental design
6. Session 4 - Non-experimental design
7. Key Points
8. Upload your Learning Journal (MEAL16-M8-LJ)
1. Module 9 - Supplementary Reading and module slide download
2. Introduction and Objectives
3. Session 1 - The evaluation process
4. Session 2 - The OECD DAC criteria
5. Session 3 - Planning your evaluation
6. Session 4 - Preparing your evaluation
7. Session 5 - Managing your evaluation
8. Session 6 - Finalising the evaluation
9. Key Points
10. Upload your Learning Journal (MEAL16-M9-LJ)
1. Module 10 - Supplementary Reading and module slide download
2. Introductions and Objectives
3. Session 1 - Introduction to participatory MEAL
4. Session 2 - Focus group discussions (FGDs)
5. Session 3 - Spatial and temporal techniques
6. Session 4 - Ranking and classifying
7. Session 5 - Understanding systems
8. Session 6 - Participatory video making
9. Exercise 1
10. InsightShare video - Insights into Participatory Video
11. InsightShare video - Tofiga O Pili Aau
12. Key Points
13. Upload your Learning Journal (MEAL16-M10-LJ)
1. Module 11 - Supplementary reading and module slide download
2. Introduction and Objectives
3. Session 1 - What is digital MEAL?
4. Session 2 - Digital data collection
5. Session 3 - Data collation and analysis
6. Session 4 - AI and emerging tools
7. Session 5 - Big data
8. Session 6 - Which tool?
9. Session 7 - Ethics
10. Key Points
11. Upload your Learning Journal (MEAL16-M11-LJ)
1. Module 12 - Supplementary reading and slide download
2. Introduction and Objectives
3. Session 1 - MEAL plans
4. Session 2 - The MEAL system
5. Session 3 - Movers, blockers & floaters
6. Session 4 - Knowledge management
7. Session 5 - A learning culture
8. Session 6 - Learning from failure
9. Session 7 - Critical success factors
10. Quiz for modules 7 - 12 (MEAL16-Q2)
11. Interactive lesson - MEAL system example
12. Key Points
13. Upload your Learning Journal (MEAL16-M12-LJ)
1. Rate this course (MEAL16-R)
2. Testimonial (MEAL16-T)
3. Accreditation
4. Final Evaluation (MEAL16-FA)
5. Stay in touch

About this course

Free
146 lessons
5 hours of video content

Watch Intro Video

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning - December 2024

Course curriculum

Course orientation

Resources

Community

Webinars

Module 1 - M&E fundamentals

Module 2 - Stakeholder analysis

Module 3 - Logic models

Module 4 - Results and Logical Frameworks

Module 5 - Assumptions and Risks

Module 6 - Indicators and targets

Module 7 - Data collection and Means of Verification

Module 8 - Introducing Evaluation

Module 9 - Managing Evaluations

Module 10 - Participatory Methods

Module 11 - Digital MEAL

Module 12 - MEAL Plans, Systems and Learning

Final course evaluation

About this course

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