20 years of designing and executing highly interactive, experiential, and fun modules on Programme Management, Monitoring and Evaluation using games, videos, and other tools.

Course Content

• Programme Cycle and Programme Management principles

• Results Based Management

• Setting up Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) systems

• Designing quantitative and qualitative data collection systems and tools

• Programme evaluations – Importance, theory of evaluation, typology of evaluations, evaluation design and methodology, global evaluation criteria, evaluation reporting, evaluability assessments.

Training and Teaching Experience in above area

1. Visiting Professor at Brandeis University, Boston teaching course on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) for students of Masters in Development Studies (2013-14).

2. Visiting Professor at School for International Training, Vermont, USA on MEL systems for students of Masters in International Development (Online)(2016).

3. Training UNFPA Sri Lanka Staff on MEL, Advocacy, Appreciative Inquiry, Adaptive Management (2021)

4. Running a very popular module titled “MEL is FUN” containing videos, games, and interactive experiential exercises. The module was taken by Oxfam staff across 25 countries, and for other International agencies (UNDP, UN Women, IFAD, UNFPA) (2002 till now, updated frequently).

5. Designed and ran a fun interactive training on CAMSA (Oxfam’s Common Approach to MEL and Social Accountability) for Oxfam Country Team, Vietnam (2018).

6. Training and hand-holding to strengthen MEL systems and capacities, Asia Indigenous People’s Pact, Thailand. Designed and streamlined AIPP’s MEAL system to formulate & track results of a pan-Asia network of Indigenous People’s organisations across 14 countries. Ensured that reporting & data systems capture empowerment & protection of Indigenous People’s rights. (2019-20).

7. Training of staff and partners of UN Women, New Delhi on Results monitoring for the Royal Norwegian Embassy funded program “Gender-responsive Governance in India and Bhutan” programme in 6 States in India and Bhutan.

8. Built capacities and facilitated design of a participatory MEL system for multi-country project (Vietnam and Kenya), including design of formats for tracking outcomes, outputs, and qualitative changes in target populations’ lives (2015).

9. Led several workshops on logframe formulation for International agencies (2004-2022)

10. Developed capacities of staff to improve quality of situation analysis, logframes and results framework, risk, and assumption analysis for 1200 programmes across 40 countries in Asia, Africa, North and South America as Oxfam’s Asia Region and Global MEL Advisor (2010-2014).