Program Design, Monitoring and Evaluation (PDME) of Family Planning Programs: Facilitator and Participant Guides

The Program Design, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) course gives mid- and senior-level country managers the opportunity to acquire skills to develop project designs and monitoring and evaluation plans that are linked to these designs. By using these skills during the design process, project activities are more reliably linked to desired outcomes and all the necessary elements for success are more likely to be addressed. The M&E plan is also more likely to reflect project accomplishments. The course is presented in 3 documents: a Facilitators' Guide, a Participants Guide, and a PowerPoint presentation.

During this course, participants learn a 6-step process for developing a project design using a results framework and for developing a M&E plan, both based on a situational analysis and an organised process for extracting and analysing this information. This training walks participants through both the theory and practice for each step of the project design process:

Six Step Process:

1. Performing a situation analysis by using data from the following sources: Secondary Data; Policy Environment; Scan Participatory Qualitative Assessments; Health Service Delivery Assessments 
2. Development of a results framework, based on the situation analysis that includes definitions of a strategic objective and intermediate results.
   
3. Selection of strategies that are linked to the results framework
   
4. Selection of indicators for monitoring and evaluation based on the results framework
   
5. Development of a monitoring and evaluation plan
   
6. Selecting strategies and methods for baseline data collection