Youth Program Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

Much of the work of youth development professionals is organised around specific projects. They may be small projects designed by yourself and relevant stakeholders to solve very specific problems that you and they face. Alternatively, they may be part of much larger projects run by major funding bodies. Either way, project design and development is often expected to use certain techniques to ensure project quality. The aim of this program is to introduce you to the practices that have built up around the design and management of projects in the last few decades.

What is presented here will give you a general overview of project work. It has been written to help you develop the knowledge and skills necessary to plan, design, implement, monitor and evaluate projects in your youth in development program.

When you successfully complete this program, you should be able to:

• Identify activities involved in project planning, monitoring and evaluation.
• Write a proposal for funding, including logframes.
• Plan projects on the basis of a logical framework.
• Demonstrate understanding of the Total Quality Program standers.
• Prepare project risk management plan.

• Department heads of youth focused institutions.
• Young Leaders
• Professionals responsible for youth project planing, in government departments, corporations and NGOs.
• Volunteers of youth projects and organizations.
• Youth Workers.
• Student Activities coordinators.

Day 1

Youth Centered Programming Model

Preparation for programming

(Need Assessment - Youth development Factor - Assessing Organization - Entrepreneurship - Youth involvement)

Program Objectives

Logical Framework

Day 2

Program Development

Approaches to program development

Selecting program format

Selecting program area

Program promotion

Total Quality Program

Day 3

Program Implementation

Program leadership

Helping Youth feel valued

Promoting youth involvement

Quality customer service

Handling complaints

Risk Management

Day 4

Program Evaluation

Purposes

Principles of evaluation

Types of evaluation

Methods of evaluation

Model of evaluation