Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning for Programmes
Build M&E systems that produce evidence donors trust and managers actually use.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
The programme was launched with a speech, funded with a loan, and designed without asking the only question that matters: what would make monitoring actually change on the ground? The political cost arrives on schedule: an announcement without delivery is a loan taken against the next election. This programme treats monitoring as a delivery craft: evidence before commitment, incentives before exhortation, systems before speeches.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Navigate the political economy of monitoring reform without abandoning rigour.
- Commission monitoring evaluation and read it critically — attribution, gaming and all.
- Build monitoring delivery and measurement systems that move outcomes, not activity.
- Present monitoring evidence at the cabinet table with brevity, honesty and stakes.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
The Subsidy on the Cabinet Table
A subsidy now consumes more than the combined health and education capital budgets of a national statistics office. Two reform attempts ended in protests and retreat; a compensation scheme is possible but untested — and the monitoring analysis exists for neither.
Your decision: Recommend the removal design, the compensation architecture and the political sequencing — with the cabinet watching.
IPAT Data Lab™
The monitoring data at a ministry of health measures activity; nobody measures delivery.
Dataset: Synthetic administrative and survey data for a ministry of health — the two sources disagree.
Your task: Reconcile the sources, build the delivery dashboard, and defend it before a faculty "cabinet".
A monitoring delivery dashboard that resists gaming.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build the design and evaluation framework for your institution's flagship programme: evidence base, causal chain, measurement, and delivery governance.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
- • Cost-benefit analysis and regulatory impact assessment
- • Results-based management
- • Randomized and quasi-experimental evaluation methods
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
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Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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