World: Results-Based Management, Monitoring & Evaluation

RESULTS-BASED MANAGEMENT, MONITORING & EVALUATION

Design, Monitor & Evaluate Development Projects That Get Results & Attract Donor Support

• How Confident Are You That Your Projects Are Relevant And On-Target?

• Do You Know What To Do At Each Step Of The Planning Process?

• And How Do We Ensure M&E Is Carried Out Smoothly, So The Project Stays On-Track?

A Poorly Planned Project Will Always Fail To Deliver

Successful projects have to meet stakeholder needs and align to donors' interests. It's a balancing act.

And they need to be built around a logical chain of results.

If we don't get the planning right, a project will miss the mark from the start. It can promise results that cannot be delivered, or fail to achieve its full potential.

Poor Monitoring Leads To Poor Decisions

How do we ensure that our team consistently collects data on the right things using the right methods at the right time?

Without a comprehensive M&E plan, projects will always go off track. That means outcomes not achieved, chasing after data and extra cost to the project.

Communities Lose Out, Donors Become Dissatisfied And Project Teams Pull In Different Directions

It's a simple fact that a well-designed and well-monitored project will get better results - while poor design and inadequate monitoring lead to:

• Poor outcomes for target groups;
• Lack of support from donors
• Poorly performing project teams

And while RBM has been a top priority of the United Nations and other donor agencies since 2005, many organisations are stillplanning and monitoring projects in the same old way.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results." Attrib. Albert Einstein, Physicist

A Results-Based Approach

Imagine being able to consistently deliver projects that achieve real, measurable results.**
The kind of results that address the needs of communities and stakeholders, and align with your donors' strategic objectives.

Imagine having an M&E plan in place, from the very start, so that you can measure progress towards those results. The whole team know what they are doing; data collected flows to where it is needed - when it is needed; and managers can make those vital decisions that steer a project to a successful outcome.

Results-Based Management gives us a framework to:

• Better plan interventions that create positive, measurable outcomes for stakeholders
• Meet donor requirements for relevance, effectiveness and value-for-money
• More easily track progress and steer projects towards success
• Get your project teams working together towards a common purpose

The Result?

A reputation for success as a team that creates positive, measurable change for communities.

"RBM is not a tool - it is a mindset, a way of working that looks beyond processes and activities, to focus on the actual social and economic benefits of projects for beneficiaries."UN Habitat

About This Course

This flexible, self-paced, practical course will teach you how to:

• Apply the Results-Based Management philosophy and principles to drive highly impactful development results
• Use the Logical Framework Approach (LFA) to easily design, monitor and evaluate humanitarian and community development projects
• Use RBM and LFA in a collaborative way to consistently deliver a high level of positive, measurable change that will keep your stakeholders and donors satisfied

Clear, Straightforward, Practical Learning

While you will get all the theory you need, we want you to learn the steps and tools in a way that you can apply time after time after the course is over.

This means creating your own project from scratch - from problem identification through designing the project right through to building the M&E plan.

And we know development practice can often be very confusing. We take current best-practice and explain it in the most clear way possible - cutting through to what's important in ways you can understand and apply.

What's In The Course?

You will learn a step-by-step method you can use every time to identify, plan and monitor projects. This practical course will teach you how to:

• Design your own results-based project from start to finish
• Build a Monitoring & Evaluation plan so everyone knows what they are doing

Supported Learning

This course gives you:

• Immediate and lifetime access to a complete, structured, step-by-step practical training based on 1000s of hours experience in helping development professionals like you achieve the best possible results for your projects and communities - all downloadable so you don't miss a thing

Plus

• One year's access to expert support through the ELD RBM Professionals Forum where you can share work for feedback and seek support - there if you need it.

Plus

• Weekly live face-to-face video sessions for anyone who wishes to join, where you can discuss the course and any questions with the trainer and other participants

What Other Development Professionals Say

"Wonderful materials, perfect explanation videos and no chance of missing anything. If we follow this course, at the end we have new project with a perfect M&E system. The Forum helps us to share our views and get help. The course is also cost-effective and can be done without affecting routine work."

Vamathevan Valavan
Consultant working 10 years as a M&E focal point (UNDP, INGOs)
Sri Lanka

"As a result of the training RBM is now our in-house tool for project evaluation and appraisal and we mainstream RBM in all our 37 project offices across Nigeria. Neil opened my eyes to critical issues of linking activities to results and impacts, and his ability to deconstruct and demystify M&E made the training a life-changing experience."

Dr Steve Ogidan
National Coordinating Consultant
Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending

“Neil is a wonderful trainer who lets the participants have in-depth knowledge of the course. And the way the course has been designed and is conducted really helps to grasp a good knowledge on the subject matter.”

Kanchan Ojha
Monitoring and Evaluation Associate
World Wide Fund For Nature, Nepal

"The training videos, slides, tutor comments and the printable PDF materials are more than enough now for me to call myself an RBM professional."

Philip Taiwo
Programme Manager
Imani House, USA / Liberia

"The training helped me to improve my knowledge on how to develop social projects more efficiently. The course provides good learning on how to develop projects with better performance and greater accountability by applying a clear logical framework to plan, manage and measure an intervention with a focus on the results you want to achieve."

Elçin Demirel
Regional Coordinator
TAMEB (German-Turkish Partnership for Vocational Skills Development)

"The course responds to the actual challenges in terms of concepts and practices of M&E. The material presents clearly the different phases and components of the RBM approach. It was easy to learn the elements of a project, the M&E toolkit and how to plan M&E. It is easy to self-learn based on the useful material provided. The videos and texts provided can be used to support me during my professional activities."

N'cho Akahoua Simon
Agricultural Economist
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria

"The training is a 'must' for project planning and implementation and will have a positive impact."

Kübra Emir
Program Officer
Relief International, Turkey

"The course is well-structured and covers everything from situation analysis to project outline and objectives. The training is very interactive and motivating."

Bénédicte Leclercq
Consultant
UNESCO

"The course exceeded my expectations. At the beginning of the course I was hoping to learn more about LFA and identifying appropriate indicators for evaluation.To understand the LFA approach I have had to learn so much more - writing objectives, developing a problem tree, problem and stakeholder analysis and finally the LFA matrix. Some of those concepts I wrongly assumed that I understood so it was quite an eye opener to learn the correct meanings and applications.

I especially liked the flexibility to take time away for work and come back to the course - that has been very useful. The discussion forum was also good because one can learn from the experience of other people. Thank you, ELD."

Dr Bolaji Obadeyi
Principal Partner
Healthlogics, Nigeria

"I enjoyed very much every part of it - I really refreshed a lot of things about the LFA and RBM. Your work is well-constructed, well-thought and designed to be understood and implemented by the participants. The sources are excellent selections of the best. The videos were short and focused to the fundamental points."

Qemal Balliu
International Development Project Manager
Washington D.C.

"The course was very interesting and practical. I learnt a lot about stakeholder analysis, the steps to LFA, the role of the assumptions, the link between the Problem Tree and the Objectives Tree, and also about M&E planing and indicators."

Romeela Mohee
Education Specialist
Commonwealth of Learning, Canada

Pick The Perfect Course Level For You

This practical course has been designed for development professionals like you based on hundreds of hours of hands-on RBM / M&E training throughout Europe, Asia and Africa.

Read about the benefits of the two packages below to decide which one is right for you.

Professional Level: Access To The Whole Course - Forever

• Immediate, lifetime access to a step-by-step course full of short, clear and practical videos, examples, case studies, discussions and tasks, along with handouts, templates and all the reference materials you will ever need - all downloadable so you don't miss a thing

• Training Certificate

Plus

• One-Year Membership Of The ELD RBM Professionals Forum

The Forum is private, online space where you can post completed work for feedback, challenges faced and questions for support in your journey to becoming an RBM / M&E Professional.

Plus

• Weekly Live Video Q&A Classes

Join optional, extra weekly sessions where you can interact live with the trainer and other participants.

Expert Level - Coaching And Helping You With Your M&E Plan

• Everything In The Professional Level

Plus

• Personal One-To-One Coaching

You send us your Logical Framework and M&E Plan and we’ll give you detailed personal one-to-one feedback over 2 x 1-hour video coaching sessions - making sure your project plan and M&E plan are of global standard.

Welcome From Course Instructor Neil Kendrick

Hi - and thanks for checking out this course!

For over 20 years, I've been helping development professionals like you get better results for their projects and beneficiaries, keeping their donors happy in the process.

Through my experience as a global trainer and consultant, I’ve developed this practical, step-by-step course for all those aspiring RBM / M&E professionals who couldn't join our training due to time, work, travel and cost constraints.

Now - without having to book time off, or jump on a plane - you'll soon be able, at your own pace, to:

• Deliver the best possible outcomes for your stakeholders
• Keep getting support from your donors for the great work you are doing
• Focus your teams on creating positive, measurable change

This course is based on a workshop I've run for several years in places like Addis Ababa, Manchester, Kathmandu, Istanbul, Yangon and Bangkok - each time making it more relevant, concise and practical. I’ve trained big INGOs such as Save the Children, Care and Oxfam, bilaterals including DFID, USAID and SNV, and multilateral donors like UNICEF, UNHCR and UNDP and from my worldwide experience you’ll quickly learn what works and what doesn't.

Applying even just a small part of what you learn on this course will increase your project's impact and cost-effectiveness - and, just like donors, we all want results and value for money. So when it comes to putting a value on better results for your projects and beneficiaries, how much should you invest?

Flying to a training, with all its extra costs, can often run into 1000s of dollars per person: think about air tickets, hotel bills, training fees, daily allowances and - of course - interrupted projects - it all adds up.

And for less than the travel costs alone, in just a few moments you could have:

• Immediate and lifetime access to a complete, structured, step-by-step practical training based on 1000s of hours experience in helping development professionals like you achieve the best possible results for your projects and communities - all downloadable so you don't miss a thing

• Access to expert support through the ELD RBM Professionals Forum where you can share work for feedback and seek support

• Weekly live face-to-face video sessions where you can join the trainer and other participants to discuss questions raised and cover new topics

So join me now, on this journey to real impact for your communities and stakeholders!

Neil Kendrick
Director
ELD Training

Why Study Online With Us?

When considering RBM / M&E training, there are many benefits that make online study with ELD a practical, economic, flexible and effective investment, such as:

• Downloadable lesson videos you can always refer to so you don't miss a thing

• No travel costs - no hotels, planes and daily expenses to budget for

• Flexible learning- work at your own pace without interrupting your work or ongoing projects and develop your own project step-by-step with us

• Our 20-year track record of success helping development professionals like you get to better results for their projects and beneficiaries, keeping their donors happy in the process.

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