Monitoring and Evaluation of Governance and Accountability Programmes

Course overview

Governance programmes, such as anti-corruption reforms, public financial management, devolution support and citizen accountability initiatives, are notoriously hard to evaluate. Results are long-term, contested and influenced by politics. This governance monitoring and evaluation course gives practitioners methods suited to these complex programmes.

The first week covers foundations: what governance and accountability programmes aim to change, theories of change for governance, governance indicators and indices, data sources from surveys to administrative records, and participatory and citizen-led monitoring such as scorecards and social audits. The second week covers evaluation: complexity-aware approaches, outcome harvesting, contribution analysis and process tracing, evaluating anti-corruption and public financial management reforms, political economy analysis, gender and inclusion, ethics and independence, and using evidence for reform. Case studies come from governance programmes in Kenya and the wider region.

Participants leave able to monitor and evaluate governance programmes credibly despite their complexity, and to turn findings into practical advice for reformers.

What you will be able to do

• Develop theories of change for governance programmes
• Select governance indicators and indices appropriately
• Use participatory and citizen-led monitoring tools
• Apply complexity-aware evaluation approaches
• Use outcome harvesting, contribution analysis and process tracing
• Evaluate anti-corruption and public financial management reforms
• Integrate political economy and inclusion into evaluation
• Use evidence to strengthen governance reforms

Who should attend

For M&E specialists, programme managers and oversight staff working on governance, anti-corruption and accountability programmes.

• Governance programme managers
• Monitoring and evaluation specialists
• Anti-corruption agency planners
• Civil society accountability organisations
• Development partner governance advisers
• Oversight institution staff
• Public sector reform units

Course outline

Week 1

Week 2

Fees are per participant in US dollars and cover tuition, course materials and your certificate. Travel and accommodation are not included.