This training programme aims to improve the effectiveness of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of Food Security and Nutrition programs through identifying and disseminating successful methods, tools, and practices. This will, in turn, improve the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) skills of the personnel implementing food security and nutrition programmes in the implementing agencies.

Duration   10 Days

Target Audience

This is a general training is targeting variety of programme staff, management team members and thematic staff, Project Management Officials, government officials, programme managers; policy makers and programme implementers; development practitioners and activists and NGO and CSO members, Research organizations among others for Agriculture support activities.

Objectives

The training will enable participants to.

• Gain insight into the principles of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment in food and nutrition security.
• Strengthen their competence in the designing, monitoring, and evaluation of FSN programs.
  Come up with clear ideas for improving monitoring, evaluation and impact assessments for food security and nutrition programs.
• Appreciate the need to integrate gender role in the development of FSN programs.
  Gain skills in both qualitative and quantitate data collection and analysis in M&E for food security and nutrition programs.

Course Outline

Module 1: Fundamentals of Monitoring and Evaluation

• What is M&E?
• Significance of M&E
• Principles and concepts in M&E
• M&E and the project lifecycle
• Complementary roles of monitoring and evaluation

Module 2: Food Security and Nutrition M&E Frameworks

• Food security and nutrition conceptual frameworks
• Food security and nutrition results frameworks
• Logical framework analysis
• Food security and nutrition projects design using Log Frames

Module 3: Food Security and Nutrition Indicators

• Food security and nutrition indicators
• Indicator metrics
• Link between indicators and results.
• Indicator Matrix
• FSN indicator performance tracking

Module 4: M&E System design and M&E Planning in FSN

• Importance of an M&E Plan
• Components of an M&E Plan
• Design Principles for monitoring and evaluation.
• Using M&E plan to implement M&E in a project.
• M&E plan against performance management plan

Module 5: M&E Considerations for Sector Specific Programming

• Food availability
• Food access
• Food utilization
• Stability
• Market Information

Module 6: M&E Considerations for Health and Nutrition

• Selection of indicators
• Integrated disease surveillance and nutrition surveillance systems
• Nutrition

Module 7: Data Management for M&E in FSN

• Sources of M&E data
• Qualitative data collection methods
• Quantitative data collection methods
• Participatory methods of data collection

Module 8: Data Analysis

• Data cleaning
• Qualitative data analysis
• Quantitative data analysis
• Data interpretation and reporting

Module 9: Gender consideration in M&E for FSN

• Gender integration during project activities design
• Gender indicators in food security and nutrition programs
• Cross-cutting gender issues in FSN
• Role of M&E in addressing gender
• Measure of gender outcomes

Module 10: Evaluation of Food Security and Nutrition Programs

• Determining evaluation points from results framework
• Components of evaluations, implementation, and process evaluations
• Evaluation designs
• Performance evaluation process
• Evaluation findings, sharing, and dissemination.

Module 11: Impact Assessment of FSN Programs

• Introduction to impact evaluation
• Impact assessment in program design
• Attribution in impact evaluation
• Impact evaluation methods

Module 12: M&E Results Use and Dissemination

• Use of M&E results to improve and strengthen FSN projects.
• Use of M&E Lessons learned and best practices.
• M&E reporting
• Design, monitoring, and evaluation of resilience interventions.

Certification

• Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be issued with Macskills Training and Development Institute Certificate

Training Venue

• Training will be held at Macskills Training Centre. We also tailor make the training upon request at different locations across the world.

Airport Pick Up and Accommodation

• Airport pick up and accommodation is arranged upon request.

Terms Of Payment

• Payment should be made to Macskills Development Institute bank account before the start of the training and receipts sent to our email.