Monitoring HIV/AIDS Programs: A Facilitator's Training Guide

Published by Family Health International (FHI), this publication is an instructional course designed to build skills to conduct high quality monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities. The training course is made up of three compulsory core modules followed by seven optional technical area modules. Each module includes both a facilitator's guide and participant guide and is available for download in PDF format.

The seven technical modules cover home-based care, behaviour change communication, sexually transmitted infections, voluntary counseling and testing, orphans and vulnerable children, clinical care, and prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

Excerpts from the Introduction
This modular monitoring and evaluation training course is intended for use in training both FHI country program staff and implementing partner staff, with the overall goal of building and enhancing the skills required to conduct and carry out quality monitoring and evaluation activities. Ultimately, this will lead to improved programs whose goals are to prevent the spread of HIV and to provide care and support to those already infected with HIV.

...It is [FHI's] hope that by using this modular M&E training package, training participants will be able to:

• Distinguish between process-, outcome-, and impact-level evaluations;
• Explain the different monitoring and evaluation conceptual approaches and frameworks;
• Identify key stakeholders in program monitoring and evaluation;
• Identify methods for overcoming barriers to effective monitoring and evaluation;
• Identify appropriate indicators for each technical area;
• Design systems to manage and use data and provide feedback to appropriate staff;
• Apply general monitoring and evaluation concepts and methods to specific technical areas;
(e.g., HBC, STI, BCC, VCT, OVC, PMTCT, and clinical care) and to overall program management;
• Design country/site-specific monitoring flow process based on organizational structure (e.g., single country office, field office, or regional office);
• Design and implement a monitoring and evaluation work plan for a country/site program, taking into consideration donor requirements.