Building an organisational culture that values monitoring, evaluation and learning activities is not easy. It all starts with familiarising staff with the core concepts of evaluative research and data collection. 

 

Policy Performance provides training in the following areas: 

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Investment planning and design (one day): 

- applied case-study based learning to define key elements of business cases

- context/problem/opportunity

- stakeholder identification

- role of government

- benefits definition and realisation

- activities, options

- preferred option selection and rationale

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Evaluation core concepts and methods (one day): 

- key term in monitoring and evaluation

- rationale for evaluating

- role of the evaluator

- working with evaluation contractors

- establishing monitoring and evaluation frameworks

- theory of change and logic modelling

- defining key questions

- forming explicit judgements

- approach and methodology options

- data collection practice and pitfalls

- analysis, theming and pitfalls

- reporting and tailoring to audience(s)

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Applied evaluation skills training (one day):  

- interview skills, including theming of notes/transcripts

- survey question design and conduct

- observational study

- case study design and conduct

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Reach out to define a tailored training program that meets the needs of your staff. 

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