Monitoring and Evaluation for Conservation Projects
Monitoring and evaluation is much more than ticking a funder’s checkbox. Learn how to meaningfully monitor, effectively evaluate, champion accountability and safeguarding, and learn from successes and failures to deliver impactful conservation.
$125
Total: Course cost
5 Hours to complete
modules
Online - self-paced
Learning modality
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$125
Total: Course cost
5 Hours to complete
modules
Online - self-paced
Learning modality
Earn a credential
View credential
$125
Total: Course cost
5 Hours to complete
modules
Online - self-paced
Learning modality
Earn a credential
View credential
$125
Total: Course cost
5 Hours to complete
Duration
Online - self-paced
Overview
Through the lens of a realistic coastal restoration project, this course teaches the full Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) cycle, from planning indicators through to adaptive management in the field.
Key Benefits:
- Design indicators that are meaningful, not just easy to count
- Understand accountability as protecting people, not just satisfying donors
- Practice evaluating real, imperfect data instead of tidy textbook examples
- Build confidence facilitating community feedback and grievance processes
What’s Included:
- A fully-fleshed-out fictional case study (TIDAL's Aurelia project) applied across all lessons
- Interactive activities covering indicator design, SMART testing, grievance mechanism scenarios and more
- Meaningful project activities covering how to build and implement your own MEAL plan
By the end of this course, you'll be equipped to build a MEAL system that works for communities, funders, and your own team alike.
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Certificate program
This course is a part of the following certificate program:
Who this course is designed for
- Conservation project managers and field coordinators responsible for MEAL systems
- M&E/MEAL officers new to conservation-specific monitoring and evaluation challenges
- Grant writers and project staff translating funder logframes into workable field plans
- Community liaison and field staff who collect or manage project data
- Anyone moving into a MEAL role for the first time
Outcomes
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
- Design indicators that are meaningful, measurable, community-appropriate, and realistically collectable
- Evaluate data using recognized criteria and find important patterns within datasets
- Distinguish attribution from contribution when assessing a project's real-world impact
- Contribute accountability and safeguarding mechanisms that meets accessibility, ownership, process, and escalation standards
- Build learning feedback loops that support genuine adaptive management, not just reporting
Practical skills you will develop
This program equips learners with vital skills to thrive in today's complex workforce. Key skills include:
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