This document summarizes a regional malaria monitoring and evaluation (M&E) training workshop held in Burkina Faso. The workshop aimed to strengthen M&E capacity among national malaria control program staff and partners. Over 3 courses, the workshop trained 116 participants from 14 francophone countries in fundamental M&E concepts and tools. Participants developed practical skills like creating M&E plans and indicators. Feedback found the training helped participants improve project M&E. Challenges included cost and sustainability. Next steps include assessing the training's impact and institutionalizing the course.

1. Sixth MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference, October 6-11, 2013, Durban, South Africa
Symposium 62: Adaptability and the State of Monitoring and Evaluation Systems:
Measuring Malaria Now and in Changing Contexts
Designing Effective Training and Tools
to Streamline Malaria M&E efforts:
Regional Workshops in Burkina Faso
Ali Sié

2. Outline of the Presentation
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Background
Objectives and target audience of the course
Content of the course
Implementation process
Achievements
Challenges
Way forward

3. Background
• Increase in funding for malaria control programs in
sub-Sahara African in the last decade
• Creating need for better M&E support to generate
high-quality data, analyze and use them, better
inform program planning
• However, most NMCP remain understaffed with
people with appropriate M&E skills
• Malaria M&E courses are being promoted to fill the
gap

4. Role of M&E in Program Life Cycle

5. Course Brochure

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7. Objectives of Workshops
• Train participants in fundamental concepts and
practical approaches to M&E of malaria programs
• Discuss programmatic applications of the main tools
and data systems used to monitor and evaluate
malaria programs
• Provide a venue for participants to share and learn
from other country experiences to strengthen their
M&E systems
• Provide participants with hands-on experience in
developing M&E plans

8. Workshop Primary Audience
• NMCP staff
• NGO and donor personnel
• Others with a professional
interest in M&E of malaria
control programs

9. Application Process
• Development of course brochure
• Dissemination of electronic version of the brochure:
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USAID mission, RBM M&E of Malaria Listserv,
International conferences such as ASTMH & APHA
Locally dissemination of electronic and hard copy
Former participants mailing list
• At least two-month application period
• Applications received are graded by in-country partner
and MEASURE Evaluation

10. Participants Selection Criteria
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Place of work (Preference to institution involved in malaria control)
Country (Preference to francophone and malaria endemic countries)
Academic background and current position
Experience in malaria M&E
Likelihood of immediate use of M&E skills acquired
Letters of recommendation (support from institution)
Gender – Encourage female candidates
Maximum of 25 participants

11. Implementation of the Course
• Lead partners
– Centre de recherche en Sante de Nouna (CRSN), MoH
– Centre de Recherche Internationale pour la Sante (CRIS),
University of Ouagadougou
• Venue: University of Ouagadougou
• Duration: 2 weeks
• Trainers
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University
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MEASURE Evaluation

12. Content of the Course
• Overview of Malaria
• Using Data for DecisionMaking
• Introduction to M&E concept
• Developing M&E Plans
• M&E Frameworks
• M&E Indicators
• M&E Data Sources
• Impact Evaluation
• Data Analysis, Interpretation
and Presentation

13. Teaching Approch
• Participants’ knowledge assessment
– Pre and Post test
• Plenary sessions
• Discussions
• Group work – Project
– Each group work on one control
strategy to do develop a M&E
• Hands on data analysis
• Field visit
• Presentation of group project

14. Participants Trained
3 courses: 116 applications, 54 attendance = 47%

15. Participants Countries

16. Participants’ Institutions

17. Post-Workshop Follow-up
How workshop has helped in work or research
“…immediately after the workshop I was part of a team that
was assigned to review our project M&E plan … and most
of my contributions to the process were based on what I
learnt from the workshop. To be specific, when it came to
developing an indicator reference sheet/matrix, we actually
used the template developed by my workshop group
members as an example.”

18. Post-Workshop Follow-up, cont.
How workshop has helped in work or research
“I participated the workshop with newly recruited staff and I was
able to handover most of my routine M&E work to him. Now I
have more time to work with assisting implementing partners
and critically review their PMPs. Recently I was called for
taking lead in impact evaluation of the project and hoping to
use some of the learning from the workshop.”
“Currently, all M&E plans for the implementing partners I work
with have been approved. The elements learned during the
M&E training helped me guide the partners in the
development of good M&E plans.”

19. Post-Workshop Follow-up, cont.
Alumina facilitate country specific workshop
Atelier de formation en suivi et évaluation des
programmes de lutte contre le paludisme
16-27 septembre 2013, Kinshasa, RDC
Dr Olivier Kakesa
Dr Lydie Kalindula
Dr Pierrre Omekenge

20. Challenges
• Course relatively expensive for participants
• Sustainability of training program
– Supported by partner support
– Limited government involvement
• Difficulty in assessing the effect of the training on
improvement of information system for malaria
• Training not demand driven

21. Way Forward
• Assess the impact of the training on malaria M&E
• Perform a comprehensive M&E capacity need
assessment
• Institutionalized such a course in West Africa
• Organize in country training on demand
• Create a discussion forum for continuous M&E training

22. Way Forward, Cont.
• To offer MPH degree in M&E in a near future
– Currently negotiations are underway with the University of
Ouagadougou
– Curricula development covering interesting domains (Malaria
programs, HIV/AIDS, Nutrition, Reproductive Health health
interventions…)
• Need a strong commitment from all actors involved

23. 2013 Participants

24. Acknowlegements
CRSN
Dr Maurice Yé, Deputy Course Coordinator
CRIS, UO
Prof Mamadou Sawadogo - Academic Cordinator of the course, CRIS, UO
Prof Nicola Meda – Deputy Academic Cordinator of the course, CRIS, UO
MEASURE
Dr Yazoumé Yé
Asley Garley
Training supported by MEASURE Evaluation Project funded by USAID,
under the terms of Cooperative Agreement GPO-A-00-03-00003-00.
The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily
reflect the views of USAID, or the United States Government.
Thank You!