Monitoring and Evaluation, CERT

Overview

Design monitoring and evaluation systems for organizational learning and policy development.

The nature of development work - regionally, nationally or internationally - requires accountable, efficient programs that can measure the impacts of their interventions. Offered through Clark University’s Department of Sustainability and Social Justice (SSJ), the monitoring and evaluation certification ensures that current and aspiring community development and international development practitioners can take multiple perspectives, paradigms, and disciplines into account when developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating major projects, development programs, and intervention strategies.

Unlike most evaluation programs, which focus on education or psychological assessment, we prepare you to work across a range of programmatic areas, including youth work, food and agriculture, refugee work, land tenure and natural resource management, education, and gender.

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)

SSJ 30203 Program Evaluation for Youth and Community Development Initiatives  OR

SSJ 30229 Program Monitoring and Evaluation Fundamentals  AND

SSJ 319 Quantitative Methods and Statistics For Evaluators  OR

SSJ 30291 Qualitative Research Methods  

Electives (1 Unit)

SSJ 332 Sustainable Development Assessment and Planning  

SSJ 30225 Grant Writing  

SSJ 30245 Natural Resource Management  

SSJ 30275 Gender Transformative Development Practice  

SSJ 30281 Community Needs and Resource Analysis  

SSJ 30282 Community Based Health Research  

SSJ 30306 GIS for International Development  

SSJ 30360 Spatial Analysis for Health  

Core Faculty in the Program of Monitoring and Evaluation

David Bell

Cynthia Caron

Laurie Ross

Sustainability and Social Justice Program Faculty

David Bell, Ed.D.

Ramón Borges-Méndez Ph.D
Nigel Brissett, Ph.D.
Cynthia Caron, Ph.D.

Timothy Downs D.Env.
Anita Fábos, Ph.D.
Jude Fernando, Ph.D.
Ellen Foley, Ph.D.
Denise Humphreys Bebbington Ph.D.

Eman Lasheen, Ph.D.
Ken MacLean, Ph.D.

Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger Ph.D.
Margaret Post, Ph.D.
Laurie Ross, Ph.D.

Morgan Ruelle, Ph.D.