One Day Workshop

“Program, Project, Performance Evaluation” - Do We Achieve the Results of Our Work and How we Measure their Effectiveness?

Workshop will lead Nino Saakashvili, President, Evaluation and Management Consulting (EMC)

Workshop will provide an overview of results-based management including monitoring and evaluation (M&E) with an emphasis of tools and methods for successfully planning, managing, implementing the programs and project and evaluating effectiveness.

The whole day workshop will cover fundamental concepts and methods of program, project, performance evaluation, developing outputs, outcomes, impact and indicators and result measurement frameworks, conducting evaluations, collecting and analyzing data, developing evaluation reports and communicating results with all beneficiries, interested parties and stakholders. More specifically the workshop will cover:

• Meaning of the project, strategy, policy evaluation

• Why Evaluation? What are its benefits?

• Who initiates the evaluation?

• Who pays for the evaluation?

• Who participates in the evaluation?

• Goals and objectives of the evaluation

• Developing Terms of Reference for the Project Evaluation

• Developing evaluation questions

• Evaluation methodology

• Designing evaluation plan

• Preparing evaluation process

• Conducting evaluation and field work

• Data Collection from Key informants: interviews, focus group meetings, observations, etc.

• Analyzing Data

• Defining the format for evaluation report

• Writing draft evaluation report

• Sharing the evaluation draft report with the client, implementers and stakeholders for getting their feedback

• Finalizing the evaluation report

The workshop is for any individual interested in understaning the result oriented management, program, project and performance effectivenes measurement and evaluation. conducting evaluation or measuring the results of the implemented projects or programs. Workshop is also for those members of non-governmental and government organizations, as well as company representatives who want to implement or pay for the evaluations by external invited professionals.

During the workshop participants will be engaged in active learning. Workshop will be a combination of the theoretical information and practical exercises. Workshop will help participants to learn and improve their skills and capacities in program, project, performance evaluation. We believe that the workshop will be both effective and enjoyable.

The workshop will start at 10:00 AM and will be until 18:00 PM including 1 hour Lunch break and 2 small coffee brakes. The participants are responsible for their lunch and coffees during the brakes.

Language of the Workshop will be English.

Nino Saakashvili will lead the workshop. She is an internationally reqognized proffesional with more that 25 years of intensive experience in organizational development, strategic planning, program and project evaluation. She has worked in many countries around the world and helped and consulted many national and international organizations, different country governments and companies including: UNDP, WB, EU, GIZ, BMZ, DFID, USAID, SIDA, CIDA, ADA, DANIDA, US State Department, ECorys, QED, Engility, Social Impact, Project Harmony International Save the Children, Caritas, International Red Cross, and many more. In addition Ms. Saakashvili intensively provides workshops and trainings to the share her career long practical knowledge and professional experience to the interested individuals and groups to build their knowledge and capacity on various organizational development, management and evaluation issues.

Nino is a founder and owner of Evaluation and Management Consulting (EMC) with the headquarter in Tbilisi, Georgia.

www.emc.com.ge

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nino-saakashvili-004a3726/

PS. You can also attend the 2 other workshops organized by Nino Saakashvili on " Do We Think and Act Strategically and How to develop Result Oriented Strategic Plans?" (Dec. 17,2019) and " How to Write High Quality Project Proposal and How to Manage it Effectively ?" ( Dec. 18, 2019). Prices for both workshops will be also 320 EURO for each day per participant. More information about these workshops you can find on eventbrite website.