The Monitoring and Evaluation Academy of Excellence is an Organisation registered in the United Kingdom (UK) that specializes in the building of Capacity in Monitoring and Evaluation. The Organisation was established in July, 2021 and it has a goal to offer training to people around the world in Monitoring and Evaluation.
The Academy was established on the following Core Values;
(1) Visionary Leadership
(2) Accountability
(3) Teamwork and Participation
(4) Professional Excellence
(5) Integrity
The Monitoring and Evaluation Academy offers students an opportunity to receive personal one-on-one coaching via Zoom, Skype or Google Meets. The Academy offers two main programmes, there is the Six (6) months coaching programme and there is also the 12 months coaching programme which leads to the Award of the Continous Professional Development (CPD) level 1 and CPD level 2 certificates respectively.
The Awards granted are currently not accredited in the UK system, however, the structure of the CPD Awards allows for potential employers or university to assess M&E Academy Curriculum and grant exemptions to graduates .
If you are interested in enrolling at the Monitoring and Evaluation Academy of Excellence you may write to me_made_simple@yahoo.com.
Among the items covered in the Monitoring and Evaluation CPD programs are the following;
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What is Monitoring?
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What is Evaluation?
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Types of Evaluations
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Understanding Results
Based Management and Management for Development results;
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Understanding Target
Monitoring Vs Results Monitoring;
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Principles of planning,
monitoring and evaluating for development results;
- Understanding the key roles and responsibilities of Monitoring and Evaluation Professionals.
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What is Data?
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What is
information?
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Designing sound
data collection tools;
- Introduction to data bases;
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Data Management;
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Data Format;
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Data organization
and use;
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What is Data
quality;
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Data quality
criteria;
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Common data
quality risks;
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Steps in
undertaking Data quality audits using protocol 1;
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Steps in
undertaking Data quality audits using protocol 2.
- Understanding Variance and how it is calculated.
