Monitoring & Evaluation: Logical Framework Aproach 20th - 24th November

Monitoring & Evaluation: Logical Framework Aproach.

INTRODUCTION

The Logical Framework Approach (LFA) is a highly effective strategic planning and project management methodology with wide application. It comprises an integrated package of tools for analysing and solving planning problems and for designing and managing their solutions (the approach). The product of this analytical approach is the logframe (the matrix), which summarises what the project intends to do and how, what the key assumptions are, and how outputs and outcomes will be monitored and evaluated.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

Introduction to Logical Framework Approach in program design

• What is a frame work?
• Types of frame works-Theoretical framework, Conceptual framework, Logical framework
• Evolution of the logical framework
• Difference between a log frame and LFA
• The causal logic, the vertical logic, the horizontal logic
• Defining the logical framework
• Key steps in the Logical framework approach
• Strengths and limitations of the Log frame
• The Log frame and M&E
• The Objective hierarchy
• Project Strategy – (Objective Hierarchy)
• Logical Framework - Format

LFA and Problem Analysis

• Overview of Project Cycle, Planning, Implementation, & M&E
• Programmatic Language Used in PCM
• PCM Definition of Terms
• Project Hierarchy of Results
• Logframe & the problem tree
• The problem analysis
• Steps in generating a problem tree
• Building a problem tree
• Criteria for Selecting a Problem
• Sample Causal Tree
• Generating Objective Tree
• Group Assignment on Problem Tree

Project Outcomes

• Types of outcomes
• Setting Outcomes
• Identifying Outcomes
• Tracking Outcomes
• Outcome Indicators
• Planning for unexpected outcomes
• Common challenges organizations face when setting project outcomes
• How to demonstrate project outcomes when designing a project
• Outcome and Impact assessment-how to track and assess/evaluate the difference you have made/are making
• Why donors are increasingly getting interested in project outcomes as conditions precedent to the granting of (additional) project funding

Link Between M&E in the Logical Framework

• Complementary Roles of
  Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation
• Evaluation Means Information
• Evaluation Addresses
• Types of Monitoring
• Key Types of Monitoring
• Traditional Monitoring

M&E Framework and Sampling

• How to write an M&E Framework
• Understanding Outputs, Outcomes and Goals
• Developing indicators
• Practicals: Building a Sample framework from Scratch
• Introduction to sampling
• Differentiating common sampling methods
• The sample size calculator
• Practicals: sampling live data

Data Analysis with MS Excel

• Descriptives and inferentials with MS Excel
• Skew and Distribution
• Measures of location with excel functions
• Frequency tables with pivot tables and COUNTIFS
• Data visualization with excel charting

Cross tabulations with excel pivoting

Venue: Westlands, Nairobi.  

Date: 20th - 24th Nov 2017  

Duration: 5 Days 

Fees: 600$ per delegate Inclusive of Meals, Certificates, 6 Month Post training support. (Group discounts available) 

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