Core Course Offers Foundation in Evaluation

IPDET’s Core Course provides participants a comprehensive overview of development monitoring and evaluation.

Based on fifteen instructional modules, it is designed for those with little prior evaluation experience or those seeking to refresh and update their knowledge. Special emphasis is placed on:

• Understanding the development evaluation context
• Constructing and using a theory of change
• Managing an evaluation for quality and use.

Combining lectures, classroom activities, theory, and practice, the Core Course is structured to offer daily opportunities for peer learning, through small team work, designing a real-world evaluation, and lunchtime roundtable discussions.

Workshops Offer Room to Explore

IPDET workshops allow participants to delve into specialized topics. In the two weeks following the Core Course, participants may choose from more than 25 workshops on a variety of methodological and thematic topics. IPDET 2010 will feature many of last year's highly successful workshops and instructors, as well as several new workshops. Participants can attend any combination of weeks in the program:

• Core Course only
• Either or both of the workshop weeks
• Entire four-week program.

IPDET workshops also provide an opportunity for continuous learning. After completing the Core Course in one year, participants often return in following years to take workshops as part of their continuing professional development.