Monitoring and Evaluatrion

Course Specification
Monitoring and Evaluation
Diploma, Higher Diploma and Graduate
Diploma
Business Management Education Centre (BMEC)
U.K.
info@bmec.uk.com
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Monitoring and Evaluation
Qualification Structure
Code Unit title Level Credit
valueAssessment
methodDiploma in Monitoring and EvaluationME02 Monitoring and Evaluation
Principles4 20 ExaminationESM03 Project Management 4 20 ExaminationEC07 Statistical Techniques 4 20 ExaminationBM03 International Business
Communication4 20 ExaminationHigher Diploma in Monitoring and EvaluationME14 Entrepreneurship 5 20 ExaminationME16 Community Development 5 20 ExaminationME18 Research Methods 5 20 ExaminationME19 Conflict Resolution 5 20 ExaminationGraduate Diploma in Monitoring & EvaluationME23Technology and Software
Packages for Monitoring and
Evaluation6 20 ExaminationBM02 Organisational Behaviour in the
Workplace6 20 ExaminationBM34 Business Research Project 6 60 Business ReportUnit Descriptors
The following sections contain the unit descriptors providing details of the aims,
content, assessment and related information for each subject in the relevant
programmes.
Monitoring and Evaluation Principles
Monitoring and Evaluation PrinciplesLevel 4 20 creditsAssessment: ExaminationAims:
This unit provides the necessary
information for practitioners to be able
to design, manage and support results
oriented Monitoring and Evaluation
system for development projects and
operations.Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand the monitoring and
evaluation principles.
2. Describe Integral Component of
Project Planning and Implementation
3. Describe Monitoring and Evaluation
Planning, Design and ImplementationIndicative content:
Introduction to M & E, The Need for Monitoring and Evaluation, Project Monitoring
, Project Evaluation , Relationship between Monitoring and Evaluation, The
Logical Framework Approach to Project Design, Implementation and Evaluation,
Link between the Logical Frame and Monitoring and Evaluation, Overview of
Types of Evaluations, Overview of Summative Evaluation Models , Baseline
Survey and Data , Review of Key Outcome and Impact Evaluation Indicators,
Monitoring and Evaluation Methods and Tools, Review of Main Methods and
Tools , Selecting Monitoring and Evaluation Methods, Planning a Monitoring
System ,Planning an Evaluation, Analyzing Data ,Development of an Evaluation
ReportReading list and reference material:
Handbook of Monitoring and Evauation,1st Edition,IFRCSLearning hours:
40-50 hours class contact involving a mixture of lectures and seminars.
Furthermore, students should be encouraged to undertake independent learning
where they will refer to additional learning material and practice the required
skills. Academic staff at delivery Centres will advise students on additional work
that is required.
Project Management
Project ManagementLevel 4 20 creditsAssessment: ExaminationAims:
This unit examines project
management issues from a public
health perspective.Learning outcomes:
1. Familiarize ourselves with the
various issues surrounding project
management
2. Understand the Project Life cycle.
3. Explain the various processes and
stages of Projects.Indicative content:
Why project management, The Project Life Cycle (PLC), Project management
maturity, Project selection and criteria of choice, Types of project selection
models, Net present value, Job description, Job specification, Person
specification, Cultural differences, Functional organisation, Pure project
organisation, Matrix organisation, Mixed organisational systems, Project teams,
The human factor, Initial project coordination, Systems integration, Work
breakdown structure, Linear responsibility chart, The nature of negotiation,
Partnering, chartering, and change, Conflict and the PLC, Linear responsibility
chart, Principles of negotiation, Estimating project budgets, Improving the process
of cost estimation, Background Network techniques: PERT and CPM,Critical Path
Method (CPM),The resource allocation problem, Resource loading, Resource
levelling,Crashing,The planning-monitoring-controlling cycle, Information needs
and the reporting process, Earned value analysis, Computerised Project
Management Information Systems (PMIS),The fundamental purpose of control,
Three types of control process, Design of control system, Control as a function of
management, Balance in a control system, Control of creative activities, Control
of change and scope creep, Purpose of evaluation – goals of the system, The
project audit, The project audit life-cycle, Construction and use of the audit report,
The varieties of project termination, When to terminate a project, The termination
process.