Results-Based Management and M&E Planning

Self-Study Certificate Course
Start: Immediate Access
Time: Around 12 hours to complete

Looking Beyond Activities and Outputs

In humanitarian and development work, projects can sometimes focus on operations and compliance without tracking progress toward meaningful change. When projects lack results-based thinking, you face:

• Resources spent on activities that don't achieve meaningful outcomes
• Inability to demonstrate impact to donors and communities
• Reduced community benefit when programs can't learn what works
• Missed opportunities to improve program effectiveness

This training equips you with Results-Based Management principles and practical M&E planning skills to design, monitor, and evaluate projects that deliver measurable change. Through effective RBM implementation, you can:

• Focus on outcomes and impact, not just activities
• Build accountability through clear objectives, indicators, and targets
• Use real-time monitoring data to adapt and improve programs
• Align objectives with community and stakeholder priorities
• Demonstrate measurable results to all stakeholders

How You'll Learn

This self-paced course combines video lessons, practical exercises, and assessments:

• Video presentations with downloadable transcripts and handouts
• Practical templates and tasks for immediate application
• Reflection exercises to adapt concepts to your context
• End-of-module knowledge checks
• Certificate upon completion

Course developed and presented by Neil Kendrick, founder of ELD Impact, with 25+ years of experience training humanitarian professionals across 20+ countries