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Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Practitioner

Secure your next career move with Beit Al Karma’s Flagship Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Practitioner Training Course.

Course Overview

The Monitoring and Evaluation field is rapidly evolving, and staying current is crucial for development practitioners. Secure your next career move with Beit Al Karma’s Flagship Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Practitioner Training Course. Our Academy’s MEL Practitioner Certificate focuses on what truly matters, filtering out a lot of the noise around M&E. The course equips you to confidently perform tasks and functions typical of a MEL officer’s role. We provide the tools and skills to enhance the design and management of development aid-funded projects.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Understanding MEL Themes:
    Learn the differences, meanings, applications, and value of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL).
  2. Project Design Tools:
    Use Theory of Change, Results Chain, Logical Frameworks, and Results Frameworks to design development projects.
  3. Performance Measurement:
    Differentiate between outputs, outcomes, and impact to design and measure project performance effectively.
  4. SMART KPIs:
    Develop quantitative and qualitative SMART Key Performance Indicators.
  5. MEL Project Plan Requirements:
    Clarify the requirements for a MEL project plan.
  6. Design Data Collection Tools:
    Learn to create tools for gathering reliable data. Apply fundamental techniques to analyze collected data.
  1. Sustainable MEL Practices:
    Implement Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) practices to ensure long-term organizational impact.
  2. OECD-DAC Criteria:
    Understand the six criteria (effectiveness, impact, efficiency, relevance, coherence, and sustainability) used in evaluations.

Training Course Outline

MELP 1 – Plan & Design

  • Monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) definitions and terms
  • Introduction to Theory of Change
  • Results chain and results framework.

MELP 2 – Measure & Monitor

  • Develop SMART quantitative and qualitative Key Performance Indicators
  • Data collection tools
  • Structure of project’s MEL Plan.

MELP 3 – Learn & Adapt

  • Introduction to data analysis and reporting
  • Introduction to Collaborative Learning and Adaptation
  • Organizational implications of MEL.

MELP 4 – Evaluate

  • Introduction to data analysis.
  • Project progress reporting
  • Introduction to Collaborative Learning and Adaptation
  • Organizational implications of MEL.

Your Profile

This foundation to intermediate course targets development practitioners across donors, implementers, and anyone in the development-aid sector.

Our Learning Method

  • 8 interactive online sessions facilitated by expert(s) with over two decades of international development experience.
  • Each live session lasts 90 minutes.
  • Presentations, materials, and training instructions are in English.

Course Certificate

Earn your certificate by meeting one of these conditions:

  • Attend at least 65% of the live sessions.
  • Pass a 30-minute online exam with 45 multiple-choice questions covering 14 competency skills.

Meet the Trainer

Nermine Habib

Nermine Habib

Nermine has 15+ years of experience in leading, managing and reporting mid-term and final evaluation missions of development funded projects implemented by USAID, UNHCR, EU, IOM, GIZ, Plan International, Care International and Save the Children. She has worked in various development sectors including refugees and migrations, youth civic engagement and life skills, women empowerment, and child rights. Nermine has a robust background in research methodology and designs, interview methods and in-depth qualitative analysis. She has delivered and managed training programs targeting local non-profit organizations and public agencies in organizational sustainability including organizational viability, effectiveness, and impact endurance.

Nermine has designed, developed, and facilitated, live and online, the Monitoring, Evaluation and learning course, foundation level for 24+ training cohorts attended by 300+ trainees across the MENA region and beyond. Nermine holds double master’s degrees in Conflict Resolution, Peace Building and in Sociolinguistics studies. She has received intensive training in Monitoring and Evaluation from UNICEF France and MDF Consulting of the Netherlands.

Our Numbers

14

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Competency skills Training cohorts

435

93%

Training Participants from 36 countries Net promoter (standard for training courses is 67%)

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