Strengthening the Project Monitoring Capacities of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) - Management of M&E
The efficient management of any infrastructure project entails benchmarking and monitoring of progress against plans. Project monitoring frameworks, processes and tools have developed rapidly over the last two decades with the emphasis on effectiveness of development aid and the development of advanced IT based tools such as Geospatial Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and GPS navigation systems.
With projects, often being implemented in remote areas and/or in insecure parts of a city or country, the ability to inspect progress by implementing partners working on-site may become in certain situations limited and challenging. Furthermore, the high cost of missions and logistics may impose long intervals between on-site checks, making corrective actions sometime difficult and untimely.
Sound project monitoring frameworks and processes together with new technologies can significantly contribute towards more efficient and effective project implementation by supporting operational planning and decision making.
On this note and within the partnership framework between the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, UNITAR is offering an introductory course in modern project monitoring with the overall objective to strengthen project monitoring capacities of BADEA and selected beneficiary countries.
At the end of the course participants should be able to:
- Define and describe the fundamental concepts of project monitoring and evaluation
- Develop and implement project monitoring and evaluation frameworks
- Use project monitoring frameworks and tools for decision-making
- Communicate project results to various audiences
Management of M&E
Session 1: Presentation: Introduction to UNITAR and training programme
Session 2: Presentation: Fundamentals of project monitoring
Session 3: Roundtable: Practice of modern project monitoring
Session 4: Presentation/exercise: Practice of modern project monitoring
Session 5: Presentation: Development of project monitoring frameworks
Session 6: Roundtable: Development of project monitoring frameworks
Session 7: Presentation: Implementation of project monitoring frameworks
Session 8: Presentation/exercise: Implementation of project monitoring frameworks
Session 9: Presentation: New technologies for project monitoring
Session 10: Roundtable: New technologies for project monitoring
Session 11: Presentation: Implementation of new technologies for project monitoring
Session 12: Presentation/exercise: Implementation of new technologies for project monitoring
Session 13: Presentation: Project monitoring and decision-making
Session 14: Roundtable: Project monitoring and decision-making
Session 15: Presentation/exercise: Project monitoring and decision-making
Session 16: Presentation: Communicating project results
Session 17: Presentation/exercise: Communicating project results
Session 18: Roundtable: Development and implementation of modern project monitoring frameworks and processes: The way forward
Session 19: Wrap-up: Evaluation and awarding of Certificate of Completion).
This is a full-time, face-to-face workshop with lectures, round-table discussions, case study exercises, and GIS lab exercises using GIS datasets and real case scenarios (60% case study and lab exercises, 40% lectures and discussions). This workshop is divided into 10 modules. Each module is structured into 4 sessions of 1.5 hour each. The average workload per week is likely to be around 25-30 hours.
The workshop is designed in a way to have a balanced approach between theoretical and practical teaching methods consisting in Power Point presentations, live demos, videos, interactive sessions, and case studies to enable participants to gain maximum knowledge on the subject and enhance technical skills.
The workshop is designed to accommodate BADEA staff and officials from BADEA’s beneficiary countries from a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. Previous M&E and GIS experience is not required.