What you'll learn
DESIGN, MONITOR AND EVALUATE PROJECTS THAT GET RESULTS
APPLY THE RESULTS-BASED MANAGEMENT (RBM) PHILOSOPHY AND PRINCIPLES TO DRIVE HIGHLY IMPACTFUL DEVELOPMENT RESULTS
USE THE LOGICAL FRAMEWORK APPROACH (LFA) TO EASILY DESIGN, MONITOR AND EVALUATE HUMANITARIAN AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
USE RBM AND LFA TO CONSISTENTLY DELIVER POSITIVE, MEASURABLE CHANGE THAT WILL KEEP YOUR STAKEHOLDERS AND DONORS SATISFIED

Requirements
You will have some experience of development, relief or humanitarian work; ideally in an M&E or management role.

Description
This practical self-study course will teach you how to design and monitor projects that deliver measurable results for target groups and communities. You will learn a process for project identification, design and M&E planning that will lead to improved outcomes for your project beneficiaries.Through course videos, practical exercises and extra materials you will learn how to:Apply the Results-Based Management (RBM) philosophy and principles to drive highly impactful development resultsUse the Logical Framework Approach (LFA) to easily design, monitor and evaluate humanitarian and community development projectsUse RBM and LFA to consistently deliver positive, measurable change that will keep your stakeholders and donors satisfiedThe course addresses the challenges faced by development professionals in project design and M&E in a way that allows for maximum practical work. While you will get all the theory you need, you will learn the steps and tools in a way that you can apply time after time after the course is over.As soon as you sign up you get immediate, lifetime access to all the course materials - course videos, worksheets and extra materials. As a self-paced course, you work through a series of video presentations on various aspects of Results-Based Management, Monitoring & Evaluation at your own pace.The first part of the course examines the principles of RBM. We then move into designing results-based projects using the Logical Framework Approach. Finally we look at how to build an M&E plan to keep the project on track towards positive, measurable change for target groups and end users. This is a practical course. At various points you will invited to stop the video and complete different tasks. You will find the worksheets for these inside the course. Please do stop and do the tasks when asked.

Overview
Section 1: WHAT IS RESULTS-BASED MANAGEMENT?

Lecture 1 WELCOME TO THE COURSE

Lecture 2 READ ME

Lecture 3 THE STORY OF RBM

Lecture 4 WHAT ARE RESULTS?

Lecture 5 THE RESULTS CHAIN

Lecture 6 WHAT IS RESULTS-BASED MANAGEMENT?

Lecture 7 THE RBM PROCESS

Lecture 8 RBM IN PRACTICE

Section 2: THE LOGICAL FRAMEWORK APPROACH

Lecture 9 READ ME

Lecture 10 INTRODUCTION TO THE LOGICAL FRAMEWORK APPROACH

Lecture 11 THE NARRATIVE SUMMARY

Lecture 12 OBJECTIVELY VERIFIABLE INDICATORS

Lecture 13 MEANS OF VERIFICATION

Lecture 14 ASSUMPTIONS AND TESTING THE LOGIC

Lecture 15 ASSUMPTIONS AND TESTING THE LOGIC

Section 3: ANALYSING THE PROJECT CONTEXT

Lecture 16 READ ME

Lecture 17 CONTEXT ANALYSIS

Lecture 18 FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION

Lecture 19 DESK STUDY

Lecture 20 SURVEY

Lecture 21 OBSERVATION

Lecture 22 INTERVIEW

Lecture 23 CONTEXT ANALYSIS TASK

Section 4: PROBLEM ANALYSIS

Lecture 24 READ ME

Lecture 25 CIRCULAR REASONING

Lecture 26 THE PROBLEM TREE

Lecture 27 PROBLEM TREE ANALYSIS TASK - ACCESS TO WATER

Lecture 28 PROBLEM TREE ANALYSIS TASK - IDP CAMP

Lecture 29 DEFINING THE CORE PROBLEM

Section 5: ENGAGING WITH STAKEHOLDERS

Lecture 30 READ ME

Lecture 31 THE WHAT AND WHY OF STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS

Lecture 32 THE FOUR STEPS OF STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS

Lecture 33 WIN-WIN STRATEGIES

Lecture 34 STAKEHOLDER COMMUNICATION

Lecture 35 ENGAGING WITH STAKEHOLDERS

Section 6: SETTING OBJECTIVES

Lecture 36 READ ME

Lecture 37 SETTING OBJECTIVES

Section 7: PROJECT STRATEGY

Lecture 38 READ ME

Lecture 39 THE WHAT AND WHY OF PROJECT STRATEGY

Lecture 40 IDENTIFYING APPROACHES

Lecture 41 PRIORITISING APPROACHES - SWOT

Lecture 42 DEFINING THE STRATEGY

Section 8: PROJECT PLANNING

Lecture 43 READ ME

Lecture 44 BUILDING THE LOGICAL FRAMEWORK - THE STEPS

Lecture 45 OUTCOME AND IMPACT

Lecture 46 OUTPUTS, ACTIVITIES AND INPUTS AND TESTING THE RESULTS CHAIN

Lecture 47 ASSUMPTIONS AND PRECONDITIONS

Lecture 48 TESTING THE LOGIC

Lecture 49 MONITORING AND EVALUATION

Lecture 50 THE WHAT AND WHY OF MONITORING

Lecture 51 OBJECTIVELY VERIFIABLE INDICATORS (OVI)

Lecture 52 MEANS OF VERIFICATION (MOV)

Section 9: PLANNING FOR M&E

Lecture 53 READ ME

Lecture 54 PLANNING FOR RESULTS-BASED M&E

Lecture 55 DATA COLLECTION METHODS

Lecture 56 GROUPING INDICATORS

Lecture 57 CREATING A DATA COLLECTION TOOLKIT

Section 10: BUILDING THE M&E PLAN

Lecture 58 READ ME

Lecture 59 BUILDING THE M&E PLAN - OVERVIEW

Lecture 60 THE COVER PAGE

Lecture 61 ABOUT THE PLAN

Lecture 62 THE PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Lecture 63 THE LOGICAL FRAMEWORK

Lecture 64 INDICATORS

Lecture 65 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Lecture 66 DATA FLOW

Lecture 67 DATA MANAGEMENT

Lecture 68 M&E TOOLS

Lecture 69 ACRONYMS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section 11: WRAPPING UP

Lecture 70 READ ME

Lecture 71 RECAP: WHAT IS RBM?

Lecture 72 ESTABLISHING AN M&E SYSTEM

Lecture 73 OPERATIONALISING RBM

Development, relief and humanitarian workers,Monitoring and Evaluation staff,Anyone with a role in Project Identification, Design, Monitoring and Evaluation