Integrating Data Demand and Use into a Monitoring and Evaluation Training Course Training Tool Kit
This training tool kit aims to guide monitoring and evaluation (M&E) workshop facilitators on how to integrate data demand and use concepts and tools into existing M&E training workshops by providing training slides, skill-building activities, and facilitator guidance. The overall learning objectives of the tool kit include:
- To increase understanding of the basic concepts and practical approaches to improving the use of M&E data in decision making
- To build skills in data analysis and interpretation, data presentation, and data feedback
- To gain hands-on experience in linking data to the decision-making process by using MEASURE Evaluation tools to facilitate data use
This tool kit provides M&E workshop facilitators with user-friendly, modifiable training components to adapt for different contexts. The modules can be presented as suggested, or separated to supplement existing material of a similar topic. Regardless, this guide will assist facilitators in ways to best incorporate data demand and use concepts into their M&E workshops.
Training Tool Kit Components
Download all materials as a ZIP file, or separately:
Module 1: Generating Demand for Data
Module 2: Context of Decision Making
Module 3: Understanding Data Information and Flow
Module 5: Communicating Findings/Linking Data with Action
Data Analysis and Presentation Job Aid
Activity Handouts
- Module 1: Small Group Activity 1: Case Studies
- Module 1: Small Group Activity 1: Case Study Answers
- Module 2: Small Group Activity 2: Identifying Barriers to Data Use
- Module 2: Small Group Activity 3: Stakeholder Analysis Matrix and Engagement
- Module 3: Handout: Information Use Map
- Module 3: Small Group Activity 4: Mapping Information Flow
- Module 4: Small Group Activity 5: Calculation questions
- Module 4: Small Group Activity 5: Calculation answers
The slides presented are NOT the complete slide set for the M&E training held in each country. These are selected slides with process or health-specific content (e.g., malaria, HIV/AIDs) that may be of use to facilitators implementing an M&E workshop who would like specific examples.
