Training course on quality and accountability for Ecole 3A, March-April 2021

From 26/02/2021 to 09/04/2021 - Place : Online

Organised by Groupe URD

Groupe URD is running a MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) training course for the Master 2 students at Ecole 3A specialising in cooperation and humanitarian action. It will be made up of 7 separate modules and will be remotely facilitated by a number of Groupe URD trainers, from 26 February to 9 April 2021.

This course aims to provide the learners with the methodological knowledge needed to implement or accompany a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) system for projects or humanitarian organisations.

The pedagogical objectives of the course are:

learning the key concepts and trends related to the quality and accountability of humanitarian action
contributing to setting up a MEAL system within the project cycle (at the field level)
understanding the role of the MEAL system in improving an organisation (at the institutional level)
learning the roles and responsibilities of the different players in a MEAL system
understanding the issues at stake in terms of data management, decision making and learning within humanitarian organisations

The seven remote training days will respectively be devoted to the following subjects, and will take place between the end of February and April 2021:

project quality management approaches and practices
accountability approaches and practices
project monitoring tools and practices in the humanitarian sector
humanitarian project evaluation methods and practices
the role of operational research in increasing aid quality
change management, and the example of taking the environment into account in the sector
topic to be confirmed (the localisation of humanitarian aid or cash and voucher assistance in humanitarian aid)

A session will then be run with groups working on different subjects related to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the humanitarian sector’s operational modalities.