Unit Code: HSM707

Unit Name: Monitoring and Evaluation in Health

Description: Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) is an important management function in today’s business, Non-Governmental Organizations and government landscape. Monitoring and Evaluation systems essentially focus on the tracking and evaluation of organisational performance. Governments, as well as business managers are increasingly challenged to provide evidence for whether their projects or policies are achieving clearly defined outcomes and impacts. Monitoring and Evaluation systems provide feedback on the actual outcomes and goals of government programmes and projects. M&E systems require answers to questions like: (i) What objectives and expected outcomes has the department set? (ii) Have measurable outcomes and impacts been achieved? (iii)Are these outcomes and impacts sustainable? From this point of departure, it is essential that leaders, managers, teams and individuals in organizations, public and private, develop their skills to understand, track and report on monitoring and evaluation. This course on Monitoring & Evaluation will empower you to understand, direct and implement the phases of a robust and results-based M&E framework.

Learning Target Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 1: Distinguish between process, outcome, impact-level evaluations, and barriers toevaluation. 2: Describe the four main stages in a monitoring and evaluation system. 3: Design a framework that links project activities to outcomes and impacts (goals). 4: Identify indicators that effectively identify progress toward project outcomes anddevise a system for the collection and compilation of data. 5: Design a monitoring and evaluation work plan.

Prerequisite: HSM603

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 1