Impact Evaluation and Assessment of Policies, Programmes and Projects Certification Training Course

Why select this training course?

In The Impact Evaluation and Assessment of Policies, Programmes and Projects Certification Training Course by Rcademy, you will be trained to rigorously conduct impact evaluation and assessment of policies in any project, programme, or policy. It will empower you to quantify the causal effect of different factors by understanding attribution and using knowledge, skills, and techniques appropriately. This training course will focus on understanding the pathways of various changes, the conceptualisation of evaluation, and understanding key methodologies. Professionals taking this course can easily choose the most relevant methodology to solve real-world problems in any scenario with professionalism and uttermost effectiveness. Some of the methodologies you will learn to include quantitative methods of impact evaluation, understanding weaknesses and strengths, and evaluation of projects, programmes, and policies.

What are impact evaluation and assessment? 

Evaluation and assessment in projects, plans, or programmes is the cycle in management that can be conducted before the projects or plans in a prospecting manner or after the programme and project in a post-cycle analysis. Impact evaluation determines which projects, programmes or policies yield the best results for many people.

What will I learn in the impact evaluation and assessment course?

Some of the skills you will gain by taking this training course include:

– Knowledge of tools and techniques used to conduct an impact evaluation of public programmes, policy development, and project undertaking.

– Criteria and tools to determine the best method for impact evaluation and the exact methodology to use

– Approaches, tools, and methodologies to design, plan, and implement impact evaluation using quantitative and qualitative based data designs

– Processes to budget, plan, manage and operationalise an impact evaluation and assessment

Rcademy understands that the theories taught in this course will be directly translated into practical solutions to handle real-world problems while at work. Therefore, the design and planning of this course align the practical knowledge gained with relevant and applicable theoretical work to put you on top of your career as a professional impact evaluation and assessment officer.

Who should attend?

The Impact Evaluation and Assessment of Policies, Programmes and Projects Certification Training Course by Rcademy is ideal for:

• Independent evaluators
• Policy-makers
• Donor staff appraising and evaluating projects and policies
• Project coordinators
• Monitoring and evaluation specialists
• Programme managers
• Non-governmental organisation officials
• Researchers
• Project managers

What are the course objectives?

The main aims of The Impact Evaluation and Assessment of Policies, Programmes and Projects Certification Training Course by Rcademy are to enable the participants to:

• Design an improved impact evaluation process for each scenario of a development intervention of their choice
• Identify and apply relevant stakeholders throughout the impact evaluation process using soft and technical skills
• Collect, analyse, and process important data to undertake impact evaluation and assessment using different approaches
• Select the most appropriate methodology to counter each unique project, programme, or policy
• Create an operational plan to conduct the impact evaluation and assessment
• Use the impact evaluation and assessment results to inform the decision-making process
• Improve their planning, management, and procurement of impact evaluation and assessment
• Understand accountability of decision-making and services in their organisations

How will this course be presented?

The impact evaluation and assessment training course will prepare the participants to solve real-world problems and make informed decisions by applying the knowledge, skills, and techniques taught. Rcademy has designed and planned this training course to impact important practical skills that make your job market-ready. The teaching methodologies include videos, presentations, exercises, assignments, lectures, group discussions, and case studies. The facilitators of this course will apply techniques that have been tested and proven to work in teaching professionals.

What are the topics covered in this course?

Module 1: General Concepts of impact evaluation and Assessment

• Integrating Programme Evaluation with Performance Determination
• Defining programmes and policies
• Steps in conducting a programme, project, and policy evaluation
• The performance management cycle
• Implementation of impact evaluation and assessment
• Connecting Evaluation and Performance Management
• General steps in conducting a program assessment

Module 2: Using data collection methods and Management in impact evaluation

• Ensuring a good data management process is followed
• Ethical Issues and practical limitations
• Planning data collection and analysis
• Modern-era problems with data analysis quality
• Data collection and analysis: an introduction
• How to maintain quality while collecting data
• Case study of good practice
• Example of issues

Module 3: Identifying the right methodologies and approach to designing an impact evaluation and assessment plan

• A framework for designing impact evaluation and assessment
• The nature of the evaluation
• Recources and constraints
• Programme logic or theory of change
• Stages of project development
• Simple, complicated, and easy aspects of policies and programmes
• Determining the intended users and use
• Evaluation based on known theories
• Realist deterministic method
• Process tracking
• Actor attribution
• Regression econometrics
• Regression discontinuity
• Structural equation modelling
• Propensity scores

Module 4: Contracting and managing consultants: organising the impact evaluation

• Public procurement
• Constructing strategy and planning
• evaluation
• Contract management of the evaluation
• Steps in the evaluation process
• Stakeholders in programme evaluation
• Principles of evaluation
• Review of situation
• Analysing evidence gathered

Module 5: Conceptualisation of the impact evaluation scheme

• The impact evaluation questions
• The purpose of the evaluation scheme
• Methodologies used
• The scope of impact evaluation
• Agreeing on what is valued
• Sustainability of effects

Module 6: Managing impact evaluations and Assessment

• The importance of front-end planning
• Ownership and capacity building
• Planning tools
• Ethical issues
• Determining data availability
• Dealing with data constraints
• Hierarchical modelling and other statistical approaches
• Quality of available data

Module 7: Step-by-step Guide to impact evaluation and Assessment

• Making the necessary preparations
• Determining the timeline and budgeting
• Determining the evaluation and assessment team
• Creating the plan: planning data collection and sample evaluation
• Creating the necessary survey
• Follow-up survey design and data collection
• Reporting the findings

Module 8: Engaging Stakeholders

• Understanding stakeholders
• Mapping and analysing the stakeholders
• Informal meeting processes
• Community affair communication
• Formal meeting process
• Managing the discussion
• Managing expectations
• Correctly reporting to the stakeholders
• Fishbowl techniques
• Launching the evaluation and assessment plan
• Providing perspective
• Facilitating quality data collection
• Increasing the utilisation of the evaluation findings
• Contributing to the program logic and framing