IDS is running a five-day training course in designing and improving monitoring and evaluation systems supporting participatory and adaptive practice. The course runs from 27th May to 31st May 2024, in Regency Angkor Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Increasingly, development organisations are using complexity-aware, learning-based approaches to design and drive their monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems. This enables practitioners to better understand how change actually happens and how impact is achieved in real time in complex social change contexts. There is also growing awareness of the need for downward accountability and supporting greater feedback from those engaging in interventions to those designing and funding them.
Participatory processes can provide practitioners with key insights into how the changes they desire to support (the impact sought) unfolds through the experiences of those engaged directly in the change processes – often marginalised and hard to reach populations. Unlike linear M&E systems whose indicators tend to speak largely to upward accountability demand, participatory and systemic methods are widely recognised for their ability to deeply engage stakeholders at all levels.
This training course is delivered through a partnership between IDS, Voices That Count and Analyzing Development Issues Centre (ADIC), Cambodia.
This course brings together the deep historical experience with participatory approaches and methods that IDS has pioneered, with the rich experience of Voices that Count in building and using systemic M&E.
The course features frontier methods for quality implementation of participatory processes at scale (with large numbers of people and across broader geographical space) to support learning focused and complexity-aware M&E systems.
You will first be introduced to foundational approaches to participatory and adaptive practices for learning oriented evaluation systems.
Practitioners with deep experiences of methods in a range of contexts will share case studies from their own work to illustrate the qualities of particular methods. You will then explore how the methods can be applied in your own organisation or project and will work individually and in peer-support groups to develop your own participatory M&E design.
The learning process is designed to enable you to learn from your peers as well as the facilitators through interactive sessions and we take time to have fun and get to know each other throughout the week.
Prices start from £910. More information, including how to apply, can be found here.