SDPI Research and News Bulletin

SDPI Center for Capacity Building

Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects
May 3-5

Training on Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects is one of the specialized areas of the Center for Capacity Building.
Seven high quality trainings have been conducted on Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects in Islamabad, Peshawar and Quetta in 2005.
Participants representing different government departments, ministries, national and international NGOs, international funding agencies, IUCN and United Nations organizations from all over Pakistan, including Azad Kashmir, and Afghanistan, have attended these workshops. The successful participants were awarded certificates.
The workshop objectives were to:

• Understand the principles and procedures for effective project monitoring and evaluation.
• Formulate and use the logical framework analysis to monitor and evaluate projects.
• Use work breakdown structures and MS Project to monitor project efficiency.
• Improve ability to gather, manage, and communicate project information.
• Learn methods to evaluate project effectiveness and impact.

Project Management
May 24-26

A three-day training workshop on Project Management was conducted from May 24 to 26. The purpose was to enhance the capacity of professionals to ensure effective implementation and timely completion of project activities.
The workshop enabled the participants to have optimal use of human and material resources. Participants from national and international organizations attended the workshop.
At the end of the workshop, the participants were able to:

• Develop a better understanding of project management in general and of their own project in particular.
• Distinguish between leadership and management.
• Improve skills to monitor their projects and evaluate them more effectively.
• Improve their communication, conflict resolution and team building skills.

Economic Evaluation of Health Care Program
June 29 – 30

The workshop was aimed at equipping non-economist health care professionals with economic tools for effective policy and decision-making in health and health care.
The lead trainer was Dr Shafqat Shahzad, a research fellow at SDPI. The workshop was attended by a number of competent health and health care professionals, representing public health institutions, different government departments, social sector organizations dealing with health and economic programs, and international development organizations.

At the end of workshop, the participants were able to:

• Recognize scarcity of health care resources necessitates making choices.
• Identify ways in which health care is similar to, and different from other sectors of the economy.
• Strengthen their analytical skills and the ability to apply the economic ideas to health care issues.