Country: Uganda
Organization: TransAfrica Management Development Institute
Registration deadline: 12 Jul 2018
Starting date: 16 Jul 2018
Ending date: 27 Jul 2018
How to register:
Organization: TransAfrica Management Development Institute
Registration deadline: 12 Jul 2018
Starting date: 16 Jul 2018
Ending date: 27 Jul 2018
Impact evaluationfor Dev Projects
Course objectives
By the end of this course, a student should be able to:
- Understand the value and practice of impact evaluation within the development community.
- Understand and apply a variety of quantitative methods for estimating the impact of a development program, including randomized controlled trials (RCTs), quasi-experimental designs (regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences) and non-experimental approaches (matching and instrumental variables)
- Critically analyze impact evaluation research and gauge the validity of the findings
- Calculate the costs and benefits of different development interventions
- Calculate the necessary sample size to conduct an impact evaluation
- Analyze existing data from a development project using impact evaluation techniques
Course Content
- Principles of Management and leadership
- Overview of Project Management
- Overview of Monitoring and evaluation (M & E)
- The need and importance of M & E in development projects
- Linking Project to programme and national strategies
- M&E as a Component of the Project Planning & Implementation Process
- Models of evaluation
- Planning an evaluation
- Tools for project control
- Development Project Monitoring
- Designing a Monitoring System
- Designing monitoring and evaluation indicators
- Linking your indicators to baselines, milestones and targets
- Evaluating social and institutional change
- Measuring results and impacts
- Impact Evaluation
- o Why Impact Evaluation?
- Monitoring & Evaluation vs Impact evaluation
- Assessing economic, social and environmental impact
- Selecting Indicators
- Deciding Data Collection Strategies
- Developing Data Collection Instruments
- Monitoring Tools, Methods and Procedures
- Trade-offs
- Evaluation Types (process evaluation, impact evaluation)
- Clarifying Impact Evaluation Objectives
- Choosing an Evaluation Method
- Exploring Data Availability
- Developing Data Collection Instruments and Approaches.
- Designing an Evaluation
- o During project identification and preparation
- o During and after project implementation
- Evaluation Toolbox
- o Randomization
- o Regression discontinuity
- o Difference in differences (double difference)
- o Propensity score matching (Counterfactual Constructing Procedure)
- o Instrumental variables (standard regression analysis).
- o Promotion or encouragement
- o Phased roll-out
- o Variation in treatment
- o Reflexive comparisons,
- Estimation biases when using non-experimental methods
- Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
- Endogeneity & Exogeneity
- Theory-Based Evaluation.
- Cost-Benefit or Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
- Reasons for not doing Impact evaluation
- Operational Implications
- Resource Requirements
- Use of data collection softwares
- o SPSS
- o Excel
- Impact evaluation report writing
Dates:116 - 27 July 2018
Tuition Fees: US$3300
Venue: Kampala, Uganda
Duration: 2 Weeks
Fee information:Tuition fee of US$3300 includes, transport from and to the airport, training materials, teas, afternoon snack, laptop and an excursion.
How to register:
Fill-in the online application form on our website www.tamadi.co.zw under Registration menu or Submit a request for an applications to tamadi@webmail.co.za and cc coordinator@tamadi.co.zw or whatsapp your request including email address to +263 773 976 674 whatsapp also for quick short replies available 24 hours