PRACTICAL TRAINING: Evaluating Humanitarian And Development Programs/Projects

African Academy For Professionals

Course details

Posted Date

Apr, 15

Expire Date

Apr, 27

Duration

5 Days

Location

online

Qualification

Training

Course description

SENIOR PLANNIING, MONITORING AND EVALUATION TRAINER: AHMED ASKAR, MPH,DPP

RELEVANT TO ALL: Livelihood, Resilience, Youth empowerment, Agribusness, Education, Protection, Food&Nutrition, and community health projects.

THE TRAINING IS FOR ALL OF YOU: evaluation commisioners (funders and implementors), all MEAL teams, independent evaluators, project management/technical coordinators, and young MEAL practiosioners.

TRAINING DELIVARY APPROACH: The training is informed by the up-to-date evaluation practices, tools, methods, and techniques. You will learn through a real project evaluation completed case to practically demonstrate the whole evaluation process, step by steps, from the initial evaluation planning, commissioning, conducting, finalizing report, dessiminating and utilizing findings for accountability, project improvement, and learning purposes.

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.