Programme Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
It is a skill based course that would take students through the processes of how to design, monitor and evaluate public health programs.
Details
This course on Programme Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation addresses a core competency required of public health practice. This is because issues of public health importance including disease control, water and sanitation, nutrition, to name a few – are generally tackled in ‘programme mode’.
Public health practitioners need to develop a grounded understanding of complex issues: public health priority setting, allocation of resources, programme design, programme implementation and programme monitoring and evaluation.
Beyond this, there is a need to be conversant with the tools and techniques required to use available evidence effectively to identify priorities and set realistic goals; build systems to generate robust data on progress towards those goals; and finally, design the most appropriate evaluation model to assess whether the programme design had the proper ‘fit’ with the identified priority, and whether it achieved the identified goals in a timely, effective, and efficient manner.
Specifically, the course will cover:
- The criticality of design and evaluation in implementation of a programme;
- The manner in which conceptual frameworks of programmes and projects lay the foundation for their effective implementation.