How does one understand whether a project or program was successful? Monitoring and Evaluation is a skill, and a profession, that has developed and grown through the aid and development industry’s need to determine and measure impact and outcomes, and therefore success. Yet most M&E is done inadequately, primarily qualitatively and ex-post-facto. This course will approach M&E through project design, working on a logical framework and developing measurable indicators, the foundation of monitoring and evaluation. The pedagogical approach will be experiential, in that students will develop monitoring and evaluation for an existing project, and at semester’s end complete an evaluation report.

How does one understand whether a project or program was successful? Monitoring and Evaluation is a skill, and a profession, that has developed and grown through the aid and development industry’s need to determine and measure impact and outcomes, and therefore success. Yet most M&E is done inadequately, primarily qualitatively and ex-post-facto. This course will approach M&E through project design, working on a logical framework and developing measurable indicators, the foundation of monitoring and evaluation. The pedagogical approach will be experiential, in that students will develop monitoring and evaluation for an existing project, and at semester’s end complete an evaluation report.