Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Activities
School of International Development / Overseas Development Group

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) has been constantly evolving over the past thirty years. It has had to respond to changing conceptualisations of development and the various types of agency involved in developmental interventions, funding bodies, government and para-government agencies, the profit-seeking private sector, and non-governmental not-for-profit organisations.

M&E professionals need to be aware of the current debates in development thinking and the implications for information collection. For instance, how did the the Millennium Development Goals come into existence and what are the implications for developmental impact indicators. 

At the heart of M&E is providing evidence for improved decision-making. This evidence can take a variety of forms – from more quantitative statistics to more qualitative case studies. A M&E professional should have competencies in gathering all kinds of data cost-efficiently,  converting them into usable information, and communicating the results effectively.

M&E professionals are expected to engage with all aspects of the managerial process from day to day Management Information Systems to final developmental impact assessments. M&E has developed into an advisory role for management alongside its original compliance oriented role for funders. The course in 2010 has been designed to meet both these demands combining institutional relational analysis alongside more conventional activities analysis.

The annual International Development UEA Monitoring and Evaluation course has had more than three hundred development professional participants from more than fifty countries since the first course in 1981.

The overall objective of the course is to provide participants with the competences, tools and concepts which they will need for both their present and future work in specifying and implementing cost-efficient M&E systems to support more effective decision–making across the whole range of organisational and sectoral settings

To participate effectively it is necessary to have full workshop level competence in English.

19 July - 13 August 2010

Cost: £4,500 (includes accommodation) Certificate of Attendance on completion For further details, contact: Skills Development & Training Office International Development UEA, University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ Tel: +44 1603 592340 Fax: +44 1603 591170 Email: devco@uea.ac.uk