Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Training in Nairobi, Kenya

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Understand core environmental impact assessment (EIA) principles and how they fit together in practice.
• Apply practical techniques for environmental impact assessment in day-to-day implementation.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Explain the principles of adaptive management and how they differ from conventional fixed-plan delivery.
• Design learning agendas and decision points that connect MEAL evidence to executive choices.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Translate decision needs into clear research questions and indicators.
• Select suitable survey designs and sampling strategies for given budgets and precision levels.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Describe the components of a digital MEAL system and how they connect to the results framework.
• Specify requirements for a MEAL platform and evaluate options with sound criteria.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Explain the financial implications of adaptive management and locally led approaches to MEAL.
• Design programme budgets with contingency, learning and flexible lines that donors can accept.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Explain how sampling, questionnaire length and survey mode drive data collection costs.
• Build detailed activity-based budgets for baseline, midline and endline surveys.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Plan and budget for digital MEAL systems, including tools, personnel and training.
• Allocate MEAL costs correctly across grants according to donor rules.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Describe how monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning work together in an adaptive programme.
• Identify the assumptions in a theory of change that most need testing.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Translate a research or monitoring need into clear questions and indicators.
• Choose suitable quantitative and qualitative data collection methods.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Explain the purpose of monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning in a project cycle.
• Read a logical framework and write clear indicators with baselines and targets.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Explain the principles of adaptive management and locally led development and the compliance tensions they create.
• Design governance structures that give local partners and communities genuine decision rights over MEAL priorities.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Define roles, decision rights and policies for governing a digital MEAL system.
• Map data flows and identify control points, risks and gaps.