Monitoring and Evaluation

Monitoring and Evaluation Highlights

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Design and backstopping of baseline, mid-term and final evaluation surveys
- Publications:
  - Program Assessments and Evaluations: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 3.9.1, 3.9.2
  - Other Documents Produced for USAID and USAID-Funded Projects and Programs: 3.7.1.1
Mid-term and final project and program assessments and evaluations (24 total, 19 as team leader), see Assessment Types and Details
- Publications: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, 2.15, 2.8,
Training and training module development on basic principles of monitoring and evaluations (M&E) and reporting for donor funded projects and local partners
- Publications: 3.1.1.A., 3.1.2, 3.7.2.4, 3.7.2.2, 3.21
Indicator, Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Plans, and Indicator Performance Tracking Table (IPTT) development and revision
- Publications: 3.1.1.A, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.3.2.1, 3.3.2.2, 3.3.2.3 , 3.21, 3.23, 3.24, 3.25, 3.26
Development of project and program M&E plans for project staff and local partners
- Publications:
  - Other Documents Produced for USAID and USAID-Funded Projects and Programs: 3.2.1, 3.3.2.6, 3.3.2.7, 3.3.2.8, 3.3.2.15, 3.3,2.16
  - Millennium Challenge Account/Burkina Faso (MCA/BF) and Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Consulting Documents: 4.2
  - Other: 10.2
Technical assistance to US and non-US non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and university-based development programs to build staff capacity for reporting
- Publications:
  - Books in Refereed Series: 1.1
  - Other Documents Produced for USAID and USAID-Funded Projects and Programs: 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.2.1
  - Other: 10.2
Design and facilitation of regional and national training programs to build M&E capacity in NGO, bilateral and multilateral programs
- Publications:
  - Other Documents Produced for USAID and USAID-Funded Projects and Programs: 3.7.2.1, 3.7.2.2, 3.7.2.4
  - World Bank: 5.2.6
  - Final reports of USG-programs to build capacity (2.18, 2.19)
Co-development of on-line educational/public information programs for NGO programs to highlight monitoring and evaluation reports and briefing papers
- Publications: 3.3.1.1, 3.3.2
Design and execution of vulnerability assessments and analyses to assist with the design, execution and evaluation of food security programs
- Publications: 3.2.2.26 , 3.2.2.27, 3.3.2.5, 3.2.2.6, 3.2.2.7, 3.2.2.8, 3.2.2.13, 3.2.2.15, 3.2.2.16, 3.2.2.4

Sample Assignments

Mid-Term and Final Project and Program Assessments and Evaluations
Participated in 24 external evaluations or project assessments – 19 times as team leader and 3 times as a team member, see Assessment Types and Details

Training and Training Module Development on Basic Principles of M&E and Reporting:

Organized and facilitated/co-facilitated 16 training workshops for staff and local partners associated with USAID-funded projects (in Ghana, Malawi, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, Mali, Uganda, Niger, South Africa, Mozambique, Guinea, United States) as well as training workshops on WID issues in Burkina Faso for the World Bank in Burkina and the United States
Co-produced training modules on: (1) quarterly and annual reporting for Africare; (2) strengthening WID issues in reporting for Millennium Challenge Account/Burkina Faso (MCA-Burkina Faso); (3) three training modules on WID for MCC to use in all of its beneficiary MCA programs world-wide; and (4) Five training modules (in French) on good governance; human resource development; financial monitoring and reporting; inventory and procurement management; and MEAL for the USG’s current and potential partners in Burkina Faso
Based on lessons learned with NGO, bilateral and multilateral clients: World Bank, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Africare, Agricultural Cooperative Development International/Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance (ACDI/VOCA), and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) developed two training modules for CRS and American Red Cross (ARC) that are still being widely used by USAID food security programs:
- Preparing for Evaluation and
- Developing and Using IPTTs
Developed an internal training module or Results based Reporting for Iowa State University (ISU) and Volunteer Efforts For Development Concerns (VEDCO) staff

Indicator, Program Monitoring and Evaluation Plans and IPTT Development and Revision

Applied research to develop more standardized methodologies for tracking the impact of food security capacity on local community capacity, food access, and staff and partner capacity for Africare and CRS
Worked with USAID/Russia to finalize a draft PMEP for all of its projects
Helped Africare, CRS, ARC, Opportunities Industrialization Centers International (OICI), ISU. ACDI/VOCA, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the local NGO VEDCO (in Uganda) strengthen staff capacity to develop and use IPTTs for specific projects and developed a training module for wider use based on lessons learned from this experience
Worked with one of the first USAID consortia: CRS, Helen Keller International (HKI), Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE), and Africare to harmonize data collection and analysis of a single integrated IPTT and summarized major lessons learned from this experience in the ARC/CRS IPTT training module

M&E Plans: Provided technical assistance for Africare and CRS in connection with the development of M&E plans for their Institutional Capacity Building (ICB) and Institutional Support Assistance (ISA) grants. Also worked with ISU and VEDCO to develop an M&E Plan for their Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods (CSRL) in Uganda. Retroactive co-development and updating of MEAL Plans for older programs funded by USDA/FAS in Georgia and for the METSS II Projected funded by USAID/West Africa.

Reporting: Worked with Africare/ISU/VEDCO’s Sustainable Rural Land Management Program, and the Monitoring, Evaluation and Technical Support Services (METSS II) Project in Ghana to strengthen the internal systems for quarterly and annual reporting on their food security programs as well as their project and M&E success stories; and with MCA-Burkina Faso to strengthen their reporting on WID, using the training programs, guidelines, and checklists.

Baseline, Mid-Term and Final Surveys: Helped design, analyze, and write-up quantitative baseline, mid-term, and final surveys for Africare, CARE, and CRS. Also the USG-funded LCapS Activity’s baseline census of 647 current and potential partners in Burkina Faso as well as an Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool (OCAT) for the 212 most viable organizations that were identified by the baseline.

Regional and National Training Programs: Helped organize and execute five regional M&E workshops (bilingual and tri-lingual) in Mozambique, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali, as well as two national and project-specific M&E workshops in Guinea and Burkina Faso.

Online Educational/Public Information Programs: Worked with Africare’s food programming unit, the Africare web master, and a freelance editor (Leah Cohen) to develop the “Africare Food Security Review” series which published 26 examples of best practice on M&E reporting that were written or co-written with local staff.

Vulnerability Assessments and Analyses: Applied research with project teams to (1) assess the longer-term impacts of Title II programming on household food security in Africare’s programs in Guinea and Uganda and (2) strengthen the capacity of country teams to track the participation of vulnerable people in programs designed to address their needs and to assess project impacts on these groups in connection with quantitative baseline, mid-term, and final surveys.