The course familiarizes students with strategies for meeting the growing demands—from donors, governance boards, the government and other stakeholders—for program accountability. The students learn how to identify an organization’s mission and specific program goals, appropriate measures of success in meeting in these goals, and the fundamentals of, formulating measurement questions, selecting an evaluation research design, data collection methodologies, writing survey and interview questions, and negotiating with stakeholders. Students will design a scope of work, methodology plan, and final evaluation. A variety of monitoring and evaluation skills are emphasized.