Monitoring and Evaluation, CERT

Overview

The nature of development work ­ regionally, nationally or internationally ­ requires accountable, efficient programs that can measure the impacts of their interventions. Offered through Clark’s International Development, Community and Environment Department (IDCE), the Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation ensures that current and aspiring development practitioners can take multiple perspectives, paradigms and disciplines into account when developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating major projects, development programs and intervention strategies.

Monitoring and Evaluation Certificate Requirements

Students complete 3 courses/units to earn a certificate. Two units are required and considered core courses. One unit is an elective.

Core Courses (2 Units)

IDCE 30203 Program Evaluation for Youth and Community Development Initiatives  OR

IDCE 30229 Program Monitoring and Evaluation Fundamentals  

IDCE 319 Quantitative Methods and Statistics For Evaluators  OR

IDCE 30291 Qualitative Research Methods  

Electives (1 Unit)

IDCE 332 Sustainable Development Assessment and Planning  

IDCE 30103 Networks and Analytics of Development  

IDCE 30225 Grant Writing for Community Developers  

IDCE 30245 Natural Resource Management  

IDCE 30275 Gender in Development Planning  

IDCE 30281 Community Needs and Resource Analysis  

IDCE 30282 Community Based Health Research  

IDCE 30306 GIS for International Development  

IDCE 30360 Spatial Analysis for Health  

Core Faculty in the Program of Monitoring and Evaluation

David Bell

Cynthia Caron

Ed Carr

Laurie Ross