Monitoring and Evaluation: Capturing Change

This interactive online course aims to build your skills and confidence to undertake effective monitoring and evaluation as part of primary prevention of violence against women (PVAW) and family violence initiatives.

This course explores the key theoretical approaches and practice frameworks that guide primary prevention evaluation in Victoria, supporting you to reflect on your own practice and experience.

Throughout this course you will be supported to unpack some of the key challenges to putting this work into practice and will work with other primary prevention practitioners to explore opportunities to overcome these challenges.

On completion of this Course you will:

have built your monitoring and evaluation knowledge and practice experience in a shared learning space with your peers
have increased your understanding of the current PVAW evaluation context
have increased your understanding of good practice approaches to PVAW evaluation
feel greater confidence to address some of the challenges and opportunities of designing and implementing effective primary prevention evaluation, including developing indicators; data collection methods and analysis; and sharing learnings and dissemination of findings.

Note: While an intersectional lens has been embedded across this training, there is also a is also a section of the Course Interactive Webinar specifically focusing on intersectional practice.

Course aims

To bring together mid-level practitioners in a supported space to work through practical activities that will build their skills and confidence to undertake effective monitoring and evaluation as part of primary prevention of violence against women (PVAW) and family violence initiatives.

Course structure

This course includes two 3-hour interactive online webinars and a number of self-paced activities to complete prior to attending the first webinar.

Time and assessment

This course will take approximately 7 hours to complete, including self-directed activities/reading and two 3-hour interactive webinars. The course does not include an assessment but does require interactive engagement by participants in webinar activities.

On completion of this course a Certificate of Completion will be issued.

Why do this course

This Course allows you to learn about PVAW monitoring and evaluation and how to capture change. Through discussion and exploration with experienced facilitators and your peers you will learn how to capture change in your work. Capturing change is an important part of any transformational journey allowing you to contribute to the evidence base for this work.

Target audience

This Course is for mid-level primary prevention of violence against women and gender equity practitioners including women’s health services, community organisations, community health services, local and state government, and sports, media and education settings.

Participants are required to have a strong understanding of violence against women, primary prevention, Change the Story, the causes/drivers of violence against women as this content will not be covered in the workshop. Participants are also expected to be familiar with the concept of intersectionality.

Each online delivery is capped at 20 participants. Minimum numbers apply in order for the scheduled training to proceed.

Prerequisite knowledge

Participants are required to have a strong understanding of violence against women, primary prevention, Change the Story, and the causes/drivers of violence against women as this content will not be covered in the workshops.

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