Topic: Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation
Date and time: Monday 17 March 2024, 8.30am to 4:30pm AWST. Check your time zone here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Location: via Zoom. IPAA WA will advise details. For queries contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Presenter: Theodore Nabben
Register online by: 12 March 2025
Fees (GST inclusive): Members $325.00, AES Organisational member staff $460.00, Non-members $535.00, Student member $155.00, Student non-member $250.00* (GST inclusive) *Students must send proof of their full-time student status to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

This workshop is offered in partnership with Institute for Public Administration Australia WA (IPAA WA). IPAA WA members please register here.

Workshop Overview

Many people fear evaluation because they think it’s all about being judged. But when done well evaluation provides useful feedback to aid in decision-making and improves projects, ultimately leading to positive social change. This 1 day workshop introduces participants to basic concepts related to evaluating projects and programs. The workshop is designed to de-mystify the evaluation process exploring such topics as: fit for purpose evaluation processes and approaches; interpreting data and producing findings; engaging with stakeholders; the nature and use of evaluation; ethics in evaluation; and key issues and trends in the field of evaluation. Participants will be equipped to develop the right evaluation strategy to suit an organisations program needs, within budget and to satisfy information and reporting needs.

Workshop Outcomes

By the end of this course attendees should have an understanding of:

• The key monitoring and evaluation concepts

• The steps in monitoring and evaluation planning

• Engagement with stakeholders

• Interpretation and presenting findings

• Ethics to consider in evaluation

Benefits to your organisation

• Understand how monitoring and evaluation contributes to continuous improvement

• Understand how program logic is used to clarify outputs and outcomes

Benefits to you

• Understand key monitoring and evaluation concepts and terminology including how monitoring and evaluation fits with the program cycle

• Understand the role of key evaluation questions

• Understand what is included in a monitoring and evaluation plan

About Theodore Nabben

Theo has been an evaluator in the Western Australian public service for 20 years.  His interest in evaluation started in 1998 while working for Department of Agriculture and Food WA, which saw him co-deliver numerous evaluation courses between 2005 – 2010. He first joined AES in 1999 and since 2016 has been an active member of the WA Chapter.

In 2024 he was recognised as a Fellow of the Australian Evaluation Society for his long-term contribution to evaluation in Australia and internationally. Notable achievements also membership of an International Resource Panel project piloting complexity-aware monitoring and evaluation approaches, including MSC, for USAID and leading an evaluation that received the 2021 WA Institute of Public Administration Australia’s Best Practice in Public Service Evaluation Award

Theo’s interest is in novel and participatory M&E approaches and is a passionate and internationally recognised trainer and advocate of Most Significant Change (MSC).  Since 2011 he has delivered MSC training via the Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) and the WA Council of Social Services. He has delivered or co-delivered at least  60 training courses related to evaluation.

Between 2010-16 Theo worked as an independent consultant specialising in monitoring and evaluation, including M&E capacity development and agricultural extension. His international experience includes extensive work across diverse sectors (infrastructure, agricultural development, poverty relief, HIV/Aids, community development, health, homelessness).  His work spans 21 countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. Recent international work includes developing a theory of Change and M&E Plan for a national Social Protection program in Jordan and  MSC training and follow up support for a multi-country Health Resilience program  for fragile states in Africa and the Middle East.

He now works for the Grower Group Alliance, an NFP, as the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager and still delivers M&E training in Australia and internationally.

Workshop start times

• WA: 8.30am

• VIC, NSW, ACT, TAS: 11.30am 

• QLD: 10.30am

• SA, NT: 10.00am

• New Zealand: 1.30pm

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