Monday July 21, 2014 at 8:15 AM EDT
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Saturday July 26, 2014 at 5:30 PM EDT
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Government, UN system, Private Sector
Early Bird - $1650.
NGO/Consultant rate
Early Bird - $1350.
Full-time student
Proof of full time status required - $ 1095
Workshop fees include: registration, binder of workshop materials, coffee, tea and snacks.
Francoise Coupal, Director & Founder
Mosaic.net International
613-728-1439
workshop@mosaic-net-intl.ca
The Facilitators
Françoise Coupal is Director of Mosaic.net International, a private consulting firm. She was instrumental in introducing Results-based Management to CIDA and has served as an RBM technical advisor for the Asia, Africa and Canadian Partnership Branches of CIDA. Françoise has been involved in building the capacity of hundreds of development practitioners working in the field of international development. Françoise authored a UN Handbook on RBM and the RBM Handbook on Developing Results Chains: The Basics of RBM as Applied to 100 Project Examples. She holds graduate degrees from John Hopkins University and an M.A. from Carleton University in International Development. Françoise has championed RBM in her work & in a variety of settings.
Helen Patterson is a partner at Mosaic. She is an organizational development consultant and with over 15 year experience in international development. She has worked with various organizations, including the World Bank, UNDP, CIDA, GTZ , OXFAM, World Vision as well as many local NGOs in Canada. She has lived and worked in Malawi, Madagascar, Costa Rica and Egypt. Helen has used her skills in RBM in a variety of themes and sectors (i.e. HIV/AIDS, poverty reduction, water, soil and waste management, community health, homelessness, leadership and capacity building etc.). She has carried out training in participatory methods for project planning, implementation, monitoring & evaluation with a wide variety of organizations and community groups. Helen holds a B.A. in Economics from McGill University & a M.S.c. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wales and an M.A.in organizational development from Concordia University.
A Six-Day PM& E Workshop That Will Show You How To:
Background
Monitoring and Evaluation is a vital management tool. Communities, organizations and funders need to know how effective their efforts have been. But, a key question being asked is "Who should make these judgments, and on what basis?". Too often, it is outside "experts" who are completing the report card primarily to fulfill an accountability function for the funding organization.
Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) is a different approach involving a wide range of stakeholders such as local people, community organizations, NGOs, and development agencies deciding together about how to measure results and what actions should follow once this information has been collected and analyzed. PM&E can reveal valuable lessons and improve accountability for all stakeholders, not simply the funding organization. For local stakeholders, PM & E is an opportunity to build their own capacity to reflect and analyze their program's progress and the action that might be required to take corrective action. These are essential ingredients to helping stakeholders to establish, own and implement their own monitoring and evaluation systems.
Why You Should Attend
It is imperative that we begin to critically examine more conventional approaches to monitoring and evaluation that are too extractive and have limited use and benefit to stakeholders. Too many times, conventional evaluations inadequately involve stakeholders in reflecting, analyzing and acting on their own initiatives. Development initiatives must be more responsive and accountable to local communities, organizations and Government. Involving local stakeholders in a more participatory monitoring and evaluation process is critical to building capacity, learning and action for informing their own decision-making and moving forward in ways that honors growth and constructive change. Development agencies, NGOs and intermediaries can take a leading role to spearhead such efforts and develop monitoring and evaluation systems that are more responsive.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is intended for:
Workshop Agenda
This is an intensive six-day workshop set in the community to maximize learning, group interaction and networking. Sessions begin at 8:30 in the morning and run all day including some evenings, particularly Monday & Thursday evening. Register early online at www.mosaic-net-intl.ca to reserve your place!
Day 1: Introduction to Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E)
Day 2: Learning the PM&E Tools
Participants will learn a wide range of tools that are essential to facilitating participatory monitoring and evaluation processes including:
Participants will have many opportunities to practice and hone their facilitation skills learning how to effectively deal with saboteurs and dominators.
Day 3: More PM&E Tools, Preparing for the Community Assignment
Day 4 & 5: Practice PM&E Assignments in the Community
Mosaic will organize two-day community assignments based on monitoring and evaluation needs and issues identified by the host organization. Project teams will work together intensively, practicing tools learned in the workshop and adapting them to real life situtaions. To date, workshop particpants have worked with community-based organisations on the following topics targeing youth, vulnerable women and men, the elderly, or the public:
Day 6: Group Reports, Building Your Action Plan & Evaluation
How Will This Be Achieved
This is a practical, iterative and hands-on workshop. The format will vary between small group work and discussion, plenary, and practical community assignments to encourage the sharing of knowledge and application of participatory concepts and tools to real life situations. Participants will go out into the community on a daily basis to apply tools and to learn by doing.
The community practice assignments will be in one of four different communities in and around Ottawa. Teams of participants will carry out a simulated participatory monitoring and evaluation assignment, defined by the host organization, and using tools learned in the workshop. Where appropriate, links will be made to existing community groups and their issues. Evening meetings and on-going team-building exercises will be part of this process.
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