Cloneshouse Brief  

Friday, November 17, 2023

What Do You Think About Professionalizing Evaluation?

Dear Colleagues,

Cloneshouse is conducting research on professionalizing evaluation in Africa. This survey aims to elicit information on the state of professionalizing evaluation in Africa and its challenges. Results will be shared via a blog. The survey is completely anonymous and confidential, and all information provided will be used solely for the purpose of this research.

Kindly click the link below to fill out the form;

 https://rb.gy/98lnli

 Also included in this newsletter are;

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Exploring My M&E Internship Journey: A Personal Account

 

Join Hashimu Adamu, the Co-Chair of the Plan International Nigeria Youth Advisory Panel and an intern with the Cloneshouse African Internship Programme (CAIP), as he takes you through an insightful journey of his internship adventure so far, gaining valuable insights and experiences. 

Read more about this below; 

https://www.cloneshouse.com/2023/11/16/exploring-my-me-internship-journey-a-personal-account/

 


#EvalBlues: Reflection of an Evaluator

 


Essentials of Evaluation | Thu, Dec 7, 2023, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Demonstrating success and identifying learning is at the heart of evaluation. This session will provide a process for you and your organisation to follow to help you define and gather all important facts, figures, and insights. This session will show you how to co-design an evaluation framework with your colleagues to help you effectively demonstrate the outcomes and impacts your organisation delivers – whether related to enjoyment, diversity, social or economic impacts, or other important areas.

Register here.

 


Join Cloneshouse FREE Webinar: Deploying Kobo Collect for Data Collection.

Efficiency, Accuracy, and Data Security are important to Data Collection. Kobo Collect, a versatile and user-friendly mobile data collection tool, has gained prominence for its ability to meet these criteria. Whether you're a researcher, an NGO, a government agency, or an organization with a mission to collect data effectively, this training will walk you through deploying Kobo Collect for your data collection needs.

At the end of this training, you will:

Read more and register below;

https://www.cloneshouse.com/events/

 


Hands-on Data Viz Makeovers | Dec 13 2023, 6:00 PM WAT

Join this engaging session to explore the art and science of presenting data visually. This session aims to enhance your understanding of data visualization techniques and their impact. Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights into transforming complex information into clear, compelling visuals. 


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Paving Pathways To Equity With Data | Dec 5, 2023 6:00 PM WAT

Are you leveraging data to address the challenges that marginalized communities face?

Join this webinar to learn how to drive change toward equitable resource distribution through informed decisions.


Register here

 


Ready to Launch Your M&E Career? Register in Advance for this Insightful Course!

The Online Basic Monitoring and Evaluation (OBME) Course is a leading introductory M&E course designed to help you benefit from the latest project-level M&E thinking and practices while ensuring that you understand the role of effective monitoring and evaluation while equipping you with skills to carry out a successful monitoring and evaluation. We also offer weekly feedback sessions where you have real-time discussions with one of our MEL experts. 

Are you a fresh graduate or undergraduate eager to enhance your employability and gain foundational Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) knowledge? Look no further than our Online Basic Monitoring and Evaluation (OBME) Course.

Date: February 5 -  February 23, 2024

Cost: USD 100 ($100) OR  NGN 53,750 

Duration: 3 weeks (Self-paced)

Apply by clicking on this link: 

https://cloneshouse.com/service/obme 

 


Improving the sustainability of development interventions: What will it take?

Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) at the African Development Bank will hold a learning event on Wednesday, 29 November 2023, on the theme of development intervention sustainability. The aim is for stakeholders to gain a deeper understanding through evaluative knowledge of what is working, what isn’t, and why. 

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Register here

 


Register in Advance! Virtual Impact Evaluation Training - Designed Just for You!

The Virtual Impact Evaluation (VIE) training is a self-paced, six-week practical course offering the tools and knowledge to create or manage successful M&E systems for your policies, programs, and projects. 

We are thrilled to announce that this training is set to continue next year with exclusive modules designed to take your monitoring and evaluation skills to the next level. Stay ahead of the curve and maximize your impact in 2024 with the VIE course.

Date:  February 12 - March 22, 2024

Cost: USD 125 ($125) OR  NGN 75,250 

Duration: 6 weeks (Self-paced)

Apply by clicking on the link below: 

https://www.cloneshouse.com/services/vie/

 


Virtual Workshop: Implementation & Evaluation | Tue. Nov 28, 3:30 PM GMT

This workshop will explore adapting, implementing, and evaluating public health initiatives. The session is designed for public health staff who lead or support public health programs or projects.

In this session, you will learn how to:


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Capacity Strengthening Programmes Worth Attending

We have curated over 40 Monitoring and Evaluation videos on YouTube. Do like and subscribe to our YouTube channel to continue to receive notifications of our videos as they are released. 

Click on the link below to access our YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO9YIO0x88g7l5UTEq5B3LQ/videos

 

Cloneshouse M&E Brown Bag Session: Exciting Season Awaits You in The Coming Year!

Cloneshouse Monitoring and Evaluation Brown Bag  Session is set to resume next year with more insightful discussions, expert insights, and valuable takeaways. Stay tuned for an enriching experience that promises to enhance your knowledge in monitoring and evaluation.

In the meantime, we have compiled videos from the previous sessions just for you.

To access these videos, kindly click here.

 

Reflections: SDG Localization Through Local Governance | November 22, 2023 2:00 PM WAT

Join this interactive webinar on lessons from past evaluations and share your views and experience. 

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Living Knowledge Network Webinars: Long-term Impact - Evaluation and Celebrating our Work in the Community | Wednesday, November 22 · 1 - 2 PM WAT

Evaluation often feels like a chore to complete at the end of a project, a necessity to convince our funders they were right to trust us to deliver. We send out an evaluation form, receive a handful back, and share a few quotes in the hope that this will be enough.

But what if we start to think of evaluation differently? What if evaluation becomes embedded in our work and is creative and engaging? What if it becomes a means to build relationships with the communities you are trying to engage? What if, by planning our evaluation differently, we can start to tell the story of our long-term impact and social value with the communities we work with?

Register for this interactive session here.

 

The Good Practice Mentor Team: Ripple Effect Mapping | Thursday, November 23 · 10:30 - 11:30 AM WAT

This workshop demonstrates a form of developmental evaluation that shows contribution to something rather than attribution.

Many external influences and drivers exist in a complex system, such as a local community, so it's impossible to prove attribution. This participatory approach is based on mapping events in a project, programme, place, and/or partnership with participants or stakeholders involved at points throughout the project. These events can then be mapped and coded to analyze the evaluated activity.

Register here.

 

Third Sector Dumfries &Galloway: Setting Outcome Indicators | Thurs. November 23, 2023
Evaluation is about measuring your impact; setting meaningful and proportionate outcomes and indicators is important in the evaluation journey.

This session will take you through understanding the outcomes and indicators and how they can help you explain the difference your work makes to your beneficiaries.

Register here.

 

Global Eval4Action Brainstorming Meeting | Nov 28, 2023, 02:30 PM WAT  

The first Youth in Evaluation week took place from 24 to 28 April 2023, and your active engagement was a great success. As we enter the new year, we will intensify the preparations for the second Youth in Evaluation week in the second quarter of 2024. We count on you for envisioning, planning and organizing the event, and your active engagement will be critical for its success.

Register here.

 

CT SOPHE: Photovoice for Health Education Research and Practice - Part 2 | November 30, 2023, 9:00 PM WAT

Seek a research, assessment, or evaluation approach to amplify the voices and lived experiences of community participants to be fully expressed. Photovoice might be for you and your agency! Grounded in Freirean methods of critical consciousness, feminist, and critical theory to open the space for emancipation and liberation and an action orientation for using findings to create change, Photovoice is the whole package for health education, social justice and health equity!

Register here.

 

Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector (GCVS): Impact - Demonstrating The Difference You Make | Wed, 6 Dec 2023 15:00 - 17:30 WAT

This session will act as an introduction or refresher to self-evaluation and measuring impact. Most people know how important it is to tell their story and demonstrate impact, both to funders and the communities they support, but how do you do this when you are busy delivering services? By having a plan and not doing it on your own!

Register here.

 


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Monitoring and Evaluation Job Opportunities

myAgro: Monitoring And Evaluation Manager - Thies, Thiès Region, Senegal

The Monitoring and Evaluation Manager plays a pivotal role in our mission as a social enterprise, contributing to our success and sustainability. This role is essential for communicating our impact to team members and stakeholders. We seek an individual who can implement existing programs and drive system improvements.

Apply here

 

TechnoServe: Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) and Collaborating, Learning & Adapting (CLA) Senior Manager - Nampula, Mozambique

The Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) and Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Senior Manager (Sr. Manager) is responsible for leading and delivering all of the project’s Monitoring Evaluation and Learning activities and reporting, as well as all activities related to Collaboration, Learning and Adapting initiatives. The Sr. Manager will be responsible for fostering a culture of learning and adapting across the whole of the FTF Premier team. 

Apply here

 

United Nations Environment Programme: Evaluation Officer (Multiple Positions) - Nairobi, Kenya

These two positions are in the Evaluation Office, a part of the Office of the Executive Director, at the Nairobi duty station. Under the supervision of the Senior Evaluation Officer in the Evaluation Office (EO), the incumbent will be responsible for the following functions;

 

Register here

Application Deadline: December 21, 2023

 

UNDP: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist - Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist in DRC will be supervised by the Technical Specialist (Programming) based in Kinshasa, DRC. The Monitoring and Evaluation specialist shall be essential in CAFI`s DRC programme strategy. He/she will assist the Trust Fund and its partners to find and implement integrated solutions in M&E, in solid synergy with the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist in Geneva, administering effective monitoring and evaluation, results-based management, tools and systems, and quality assurance frameworks in CAFI`s portfolio in DRC, ensuring that the Trust Fund remains accountable, transparent and learns from its programme implementation. 

Apply here

Application Deadline: November 27, 2023

 

Africa Training Institute: Monitoring and Evaluation Analysts - Nairobi, Kenya

The Africa Training Institute seeks 12 Monitoring and Evaluation Analysts. These M&E Analysts will work closely with the Head of Programmes to identify clear baselines, indicators, and milestones for implementation of Africa Training Institute and its Partners' programme activities in the following countries: South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda.

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Apply here

Application Deadline: November 22, 2023

 

UNICEF: Planning and Monitoring Officer N02 - Kampala, Uganda

The Planning and Monitoring Officer, NO2, is based in a Uganda Country Office in the Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation Section, reporting to the Planning and Monitoring Specialist / NOC. 

The core functions of (internal and external) Planning will continue to be anchored in the PME team as a high-level coordination function, as opposed to a business partner model with each Programme team or Zonal Office. This includes coordination on GoU and UN Planning, Programme and Zonal Planning, and UCO’s engagement with Implementing Partners. The function provides advisory roles to senior management, with Section Chiefs and Output Managers taking on more accountability for the technical quality of their Programme Planning, Implementing Partnerships, and Knowledge Management functions. 

Apply here

Application Deadline: November 24, 2023

 

Norwegian Refugee Council: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager - Madugiri, Nigeria

The role of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager is to lead the strategic direction and quality assurance of monitoring and evaluation in the country office. The MEL Manager should design and implement a strategy, SOPs, and budget for MEL, ensuring the CO is meeting and exceeding MEL minimum standards. Plan for and generate the evidence and learning required to feed into programme and strategic decision-making.

Apply here

Application Deadline: December 2, 2023

 

Corus International: Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director CDC-funded global Childhood Immunization Project - Nigeria

The Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director will provide leadership to the technical and programmatic implementation of the program. This position will oversee overall management and technical oversight of the project's monitoring, evaluation, learning support and research efforts. S/he shall develop monitoring, evaluation, and reporting (MER) systems that include appropriate indicators, baseline data, targets, and a plan to evaluate performance and produce timely, accurate and complete reporting. The MEL Director is responsible for designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems, information analysis, capacity strengthening, and development of program management plans and project monitoring. This position reports directly to the Project Director.

Apply here

 

DT Global: Monitoring, Evaluation, Adaptation, Research and Learning (MEARL) Director - Abuja, Nigeria

The MEARL Director will lead the monitoring, evaluation, adaptation, research and learning components for this five-year, $50-90 million USAID-funded project. This position will be based in Abuja, requiring frequent travel within Nigeria. Final recruitment for this position is contingent on a contract award to DT Global and is subject to USAID approval.

Apply here

 

FHI 360: Director Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning - Akwa Ibom, Nigeria

The Director, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning will report to the Country Director and will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the program monitoring and evaluation framework and information system to track delivery against targets, outcomes and impacts. S/he will lead analysis of data collected for assessment of progress and areas of improvement, will guide reporting processes amongst technical staff and, consolidate program reports, and promote learning and knowledge sharing of best practices and lessons learnt. S/he will support all the technical staff in M&E functions and manage any M&E-related staff in the program.

Apply here

 


Thanks for reading, and If you have any questions, feel free to email our customer success team.

Keep staying safe! 

 

Cloneshouse is an international development consulting firm operating in Nigeria as Cloneshouse, with over 13 years of experience in providing technical assistance to government and non-government organizations in monitoring and evaluation.

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