GSLL 1504 - Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation

This course stresses participatory methods in monitoring and evaluation, where multiple stakeholders are involved in the process of planning, collecting, interpreting, communicating, and using information. This approach emphasizes a regular monitoring process that leads to continuous improvements. The course uses a case study and team discussions to illustrate the participatory monitoring and evaluation process.

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Plan a monitoring and evaluation project
• Develop evaluation questions that address stakeholders needs
• Select the most appropriate data collection method for a given situation
• Effectively communicate monitoring and evaluation data.
• Use the monitoring information to achieve continuous improvement

Who should take this course? This course is ideal for people who are interested in monitoring single projects, multiple projects, or development progress of an entire community. This includes development project managers, field workers, university professionals, students, and people working or volunteering at NGOs, NPOs, government organizations or missionary organizations. In addition, people involved in funding community development projects benefit from this course.

This course can be applied towards the:

• Community-Based Development Certificate

Noncredit courses do not produce academic credit nor appear on a Colorado State University academic transcript.

Instructors

Milan Dinda
mkdinda@cal.vsnl.net.in

Milan K.Dinda has a PhD in Sociology and ten years of experience in community development and planning, training on Participatory Process on Sustainable Development, Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation, Indigenous Knowledge and Appropriate Technology, Result Based Management (RBM), Log Frame Matrix analysis, HIV/AIDS and TB-HIV Management. He has worked in the field of Participatory Community Development and Civil Society Initiative for 15 years. He has lived in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, the United States and Thailand. His specialties are participatory process ( PLA,AOL-Action Oriented Learning) RBM and Community Based Monitoring & Evaluation (CBME).

Christine Wheatley
(970) 491-5754
christine@villageearth.org

Christine Wheatley has her MA in sociology with an emphasis in international development. Her current work with Village Earth focuses on developing and expanding the Purulia Micro-finance Initiative in West Bengal, India.

Christine specializes in survey, evaluation, and ethnographic research methods, community capacity building, issues of development in indigenous communities, and local governance. She has conducted research on economic/community development in indigenous and impoverished communities in Mexico, Tanzania, and India.

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