Monitoring and Evaluating Training

What is monitoring?

• Collecting information about your project

• Planned, organised and regular collection

• Information about activities, services, users, outside factors

What is evaluation?

• Using information collected during monitoring

• Helps to answer:

- How well are we doing?

- Are we doing the right things?

- What difference are we making?

• Analyse/assess key issues → action

Why monitor and evaluate?• Learning and development

- What happened and why?

- What is working? What is not working?

- Adapt to changing needs

• Accountability

- Evidence of successes or challenges for sharing with stakeholders

What should we monitor and evaluate?

• Consider the aim/s of the project

• Prioritise outcomes (things that will happen because of the training)

• Quantitative and qualitative data

Prioritising outcomes

• I’d expect to see…

• I’d like to see…

• I’d love to see…

all participants deliver at least three workshops themselves

regular discussion between all master trainers on the challenges they face and possible solutions

50% of participants training their colleagues to train others

When should we monitor and evaluate?

• Training needs assessment

• During the event

• Immediately after the event

• Some weeks/months later

INASP’s experience

• Work with partner country colleagues to assess needs

• Facilitator/co-facilitator observe/make notes during the workshop

• Evaluation forms completed by participants

• Direct follow-up (by phone or email)

Using evaluation forms• Widely used; great variety

• Relevant questions; useful answers

• Comparing different forms

- 4 forms to look at

- Advantages (pink)

- Disadvantages (yellow)

- Choose a favourite (green)

Bringing information together

• Collected information must be used

• Regular review/evaluation of data

• Locally/regionally/nationally

• Discussion of challenges and solutions

• Lead to action

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