Training: Monitoring, Evaluation and Adaptive learning (MEAL) Online

The African Academy for Professionals (AAP) is glad to present a new training on learning Monitoring, Evaluation and Adaptive learning (MEAL) for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Private Sector & public institutions) and individuals interested in these skills.

Course: Monitoring, Evaluation and Adaptive learning (MEAL)

Why should you take this MEAL course?

In the word of work, we do our collective effort (projects/programs) and invest our resources to make positive change (results) in improving their people’s lives, livelihoods and prosperities. In order to strive to make such results, we must robustly measure, learn and report our progress and outcomes.

Whether in the government sector, private businesses, development cooperation, non-profit organizations, and community-based organizations, we all need to create monitoring and evaluation systems. Systems that enable us adaptively design and improve programs and systems, make data-informed decisions, improve programs/projects’ performance, and more importantly achieve the desired impact.

MEAL is therefore an essential function of systems, organizations, and result-oriented program management cycle.  

To bring value for money, international humanitarian and development communities, as well as governments and private companies have all been extensively investing for the last decades in designing adaptive systems, frameworks, tools and digital techs innovations to improve monitoring, evaluation, learning and accountability in their perspective sectors. Therefore, a MEAL professional in diverse disciples is now in critical demand. Indeed, it is a promising career for you as well!

What practical knowledge and skills you will acquire from the course?

The course will equip you with the practical and relevant knowledge and skills you need for designing, managing, implementing and improving MEAL systems. It is designed to be delivered through interactive approach and learning-by-doing meaningful case studies scenarios. The course content is made-toiled and guided by internationally recognized and professionally tested MEAL frameworks, tools and templates that are user-friendly and adaptable across diverse range of domains (Business, Education, Health, WASH, Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture, youth/women empowerment, social protections, etc.) and in different contexts (Government sector, private sector, humanitarian actions, development programs, community–based projects, etc.

By the end of the course modules and practical sessions, you will:

1.     Develop better understanding of key MEAL definitions, concepts and frameworks and their inter-connectedness throughout the entire MEAL activities, process, cycle and system;

2.     Develop key performance indicators that measure what matter: aligned with program/project log farm;

3.     Be able to design integrated MEAL plans: Data sources, data collection and analysis tools, MEAL staff, budget plan, Staffing ToR;

4.     How to report and share MEAL results: inform decision making process, feed learnings into program management cycle, organizations development and strategic planning;

5.     Be able to reflect on your own project MEAL or case-studies assigned with small teams to: propose design, recommend improvements, support data-driven decision-making practices, or share knowledge with your projects/programs/ organizations and with the wider stakeholders concerned.

Who should take this course?

This course accommodates large spectrum of participants from different educational and work experiences. It is with particularly importance to those who need to pursue MEAL jobs or currently working in MEAL activities, including but not limited to the following:

ü Program and project coordinators/officers;

ü Government civil servants;

ü Communication and proposal development officers;

ü Independent consultants;

ü Anyone who is planning to grow career in local and international humanitarian and development organizations.

We look forward to receiving your application. The deadline for applications is: Online [9th November 2024]

Duration:   6 Days

Class: 6 Days (6:40pm – 8:40)

Number of Participants: 20 Participants Only in class while online more than that number (Register Early -->> Click Here )

Online Start & End Date: [9th November to 14th November 2024]

Location Office: Ali Gobannimo Building, 3rd Floor, Togdheer, Hargeisa.

Requirement   

Fee: $25.00 (Inclusive Trainer Incentive, Refreshment, Papers & Certificates). For groups of 5 or more, 1 will be free.

Bank Account Details  

Deposit to Bank: Dahabshiil Bank

Account Name: African Academy for Professionals

Account Number: HRGD75468

Zaad Number:  0634730610 African Academy for Professionals

Contact Details:

Mobile Office: +252634730610

Office Line: 523851

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/SLN2ZArBKLTAnFDh8

Web: https://www.aapsom.com

About the Trainer:

Mr. Askar is a senior planning, programming, and capacity-building manager and practitioner at the national level. He is an expanding learner, a very resourceful and practical-oriented trainer with a mix of inter-disciplinary educational backgrounds and diverse work experiences in various sectors, themes, and cross-cutting issues: Health-Education-WASH-Nutrition-Livelihood- Youth empowerment, and social protection: from supporting community-based projects; designing, monitoring and evaluating international development programs; strategic planning and reviews; donor and multi-stakeholder coordination; organizational and systems strengthening interventions; and technical capacity building programs.

Tracking Monitoring, Evaluation, and Capacity development experience for the last 12 years, he has extensively undertaken leadership, management, and technical roles at systems, strategic, planning, and programmatic levels. Whereby he has uniquely interacted with all most all key components of M&E system: developing M&E policies, strategies, frameworks, plans, indicators, data collections, and analysis tools, conducting monitoring and supervision visits, conducting reviews and evaluation, reporting information/evidence to inform decisions, improve accountability and organizational/program learning for improvement. A highlight of remarkable M&E-accomplishments with great opportunities of relevant learning and transferable skills will include:

1.     Contributed to developing and reviewing systems, strategic plans, frameworks, tools, SoPs, ToRs and technical guidelines for improving management and performance of national system-level and program-based M&E systems and Management Information Systems (MIS);

2.     Contributed to developing/reviewing policy and strategic plans, annual plans; and donor-funded programs.

3.     Contributed to developing a national M&E framework/plan to harmonize overlapping multiple program-based monitoring/supervision visits at the operational/implementation level.

4.     Coordinated -and technically contributed- planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of a number of important health, nutrition, WASH, Livelihood, and community resilience programs funded by donors and implemented by partners, such as DFID-funded SHINE (EPHS/HSS) and demand creation (PSI/SAHAN) programs; GAVI funded WHO EPI program, GF funded UNICEF programs, JPLG programs, Finland funded MIDA programs, among others.

5.     Advocated for, and technically contributed to, improving production, dissemination and timely use of reliable information/evidence through integrated tech-supported ONE national M&E framework (HMIS, DHIS2, disease surveillance systems, CRVS, LMIS, program monitoring supervisions, population surveys, and research).

6.     Conducted several baseline assessments, program reviews, project monitoring, and supervision visits and with large spectrum of national and international health development and implementing partners.

From academic and professional education terms, Mr. Askar has pursued an inter-disciplinary career path; from his most recent Geneva Executive Master in development policies and programs; a Master of international public health in 2014; and a Bachelor of Business Management in his first university education. In addition, he has also completed and participated in many advanced professional development courses on: policy/systems analysis, strategic development, leadership, result-based program management, M&E systems, quality improvement, etc. While also attended regional and international seminars, workshops, and conferences organized in Nairobi, Cairo, Khartoum, Doha, Addis Ababa, Kigali, and Dara-Salam, plus some online international courses and virtual events.