Modules that have been developed or are in the process of being completed are:
1. Basics of evaluation: overview of purposes, concepts, approaches, methods, models, the issue of attribution and impact, on relevance, reliability, validity, triangulation, and comparability, and summative vs. formative and project, programme or policy analyses foci.
2. Problem analysis and translation to Terms of Reference or similar operational documents that determine the type of evaluation
3. How to deal with sampling issues in a practical manner, and training and control for data-collection
4. Qualitative methods, and interview and survey skills
5. Self-evaluation, participatory M&E and evaluator facilitation skills
6. Quantitative methods and use and limitations of Statistics
7. Desk-studies, using available data, relevance of monitoring trends
8. Evaluating quality, Value-for-Money, effectiveness and efficiency of implementation and the limitations and uses of performance assessments
9. Policy, Programme & Impact-evaluations; Institutional, Incidence and Social Analyses, poverty reduction strategies and sector-wide approaches, and the difficulties of sustainability and impact assessments also in relation to the Millenium Development Goals.
10. Expertise required, content, area, method-based skills, rates & conditions
11. Data-collection and processing and indicator-identification and analysis
12. Reporting, presentation and communication skills
13. Organisation, logistics and planning of evaluation exercises
14. Co-ordinating evaluations in practice, role stakeholders and others, institutional development analyses, organisational responsibilities
15. The short-mission and its specific characteristics and demands
16. Follow-up, intra-organisational, in particular utilisation-focused evaluation, lessons-learned, how to arrive at best-practices, and extra-organisational on the organisation?s role, performance and sustainability
17. Writing a proposal for an evaluation
18. Possibilities and limitations of new technology; database management, communication and presentation technology
19. Use and relevance of photos, audio and video in evaluations
20. Evaluation design: bringing it all together
More information on the availability of the courses will be given on our website. (www.especs.nl) This also applies for the opportunity to complete the training with a post-graduate diploma from an academic institute in Europe.
NB:If you and/or your organisation would be interested to participate in further design of a module, please, contact us. This is also true if you would like to play a role in delivering the course (-module).