85511 - Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Cooperation Projects

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Moduli: Sabrina Pedrini (Modulo 1) Sabrina Pedrini (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International Cooperation on Human Rights and Intercultural Heritage (cod. 9237)

Learning outcomes

The workshop will introduce how monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems are designed in World Bank interventions. In particular, the workshop aims at giving the students the tools to understand theory of change behind development interventions and how best to measure progress on outputs and outcomes. The workshop core focus will be on impact evaluations methodologies of investment projects when the outcome variable is jobs related (e.g., hours of work, participation rates, earnings, employment rate, net jobs created). Indeed, the workshop will particularly focus on the link between an array of WBG interventions and job-related results in the form of intermediate and higher level outcomes. The students, at the end of the workshop will be equipped with general knowledge of how M&E systems work and in particular how they are used in WB interventions and how best to design them to produce relevant and useful information. The students will also have the tools to understand how WB interventions can be better designed to be more impactful in terms of jobs outcomes and to clearly measure jobs – related outcomes.

Course contents

1. Introduction.

2. Constructing a Theory of Changemap

3. Developing a Theory of Change through a stakeholder work: planning and logistics

4. Key advantages of using Theory of Change

5. What makes a good Theory of Change and what are the challenges when creating one?

6. How can a Theory of Change help to guide formative research?

7. Theory of Change as framework for process and outcome evaluationsPage

8. Further reading

Readings/Bibliography

the material will be distributed in class

Teaching methods

Blended

Assessment methods

Class working group, presentations

Teaching tools

Slides, short movies

Office hours

See the website of Sabrina Pedrini