# Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation for Government

> Build government-wide planning and M&E systems that track delivery and inform decisions.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Public Sector & Development
- **Duration:** 5 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/public-sector-development/government-planning-monitoring-evaluation
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=government-planning-monitoring-evaluation

## Overview

This course focuses on M&E at the level of government institutions: national development plans, institutional performance frameworks, results-based budgeting, data systems, evaluation programmes and using evidence in decision-making.

## Who should attend

- Government planning and M&E units
- Presidency and premier's office staff
- Statistics officials
- Development partners

## Learning outcomes

- Link national plans to institutional plans
- Design government M&E frameworks
- Strengthen administrative data systems
- Commission and use evaluations
- Report performance to political leadership

## Course outline

### Day 1: Planning systems

- National development plans
- Institutional plans
- Results-based budgeting
- Alignment

### Day 2: M&E frameworks

- Government-wide M&E systems
- Indicators
- Roles and institutions
- Data sources

### Day 3: Data

- Administrative data
- Data quality
- Statistics systems
- Dashboards

### Day 4: Evaluation

- National evaluation systems
- Evaluation plans
- Managing evaluations
- Improvement plans

### Day 5: Using evidence

- Reporting to leadership
- Evidence-based decisions
- Accountability
- System assessment