Results-Based Management and M&E Planning

Self-Study Certificate Course

When Activities Don't Lead to Impact

In humanitarian and development work, projects can sometimes focus on operations and compliance without tracking progress toward meaningful change. When projects lack results-based thinking, you face:

• Resources spent on activities that don't achieve meaningful outcomes
• Inability to demonstrate impact to donors and communities
• Reduced community benefit when programs can't learn what works
• Missed opportunities to improve program effectiveness

This training equips you with Results-Based Management principles and practical M&E planning skills to design, monitor, and evaluate projects that deliver measurable change. Through effective RBM implementation, you can:

• Focus on outcomes and impact, not just activities
• Build accountability through clear objectives, indicators, and targets
• Use real-time monitoring data to adapt and improve programs
• Align objectives with community and stakeholder priorities
• Demonstrate measurable results to all stakeholders

Who This Is For

This training is for people working in relief, development, or humanitarian contexts who need to design and manage projects that deliver measurable results. It's ideal for:

• Project managers and officers designing programs for measurable impact
• M&E specialists building results-based monitoring systems
• Field staff integrating community feedback into program design and M&E
• Program teams connecting strategic objectives with tangible outcomes
• Professionals transitioning to results-focused management approaches
• Anyone responsible for demonstrating project effectiveness

No prior experience needed—the course delivers clear, practical guidance for newcomers while providing strategic insights and advanced applications for seasoned practitioners.

How You'll Learn

This course offers a self-paced, practical learning experience, combining study materials, reflections, exercises, and end-of-module assessments. Designed around the real-world challenges faced by humanitarian and development professionals, the course encourages you to pause, reflect, and actively develop skills you can confidently apply to your own context as you learn.

Flexible self-study Access practical downloadable video presentations, transcripts, handouts, exercises, templates and tasks, allowing you to learn and apply skills at your own pace.

Knowledge checks Assessments at the end of each module test your understanding, reinforce learning, and help you reflect on key concepts.

Course Discussion Forum Share questions, insights, and challenges with peers. Instructor Neil Kendrick monitors and responds regularly to support your progress.

Certificate of completion Successfully complete all modules and assessments to receive your certificate.

Impact Stories

9.2/10 Rating (based on 236 reviews)

"The course content, methods and materials are super. It is very practical and I found it very useful to understand and apply at the workplace. At this point, I highly highly highly recommend this course." — Ola Abdelmonem Husein

"As a result of the training, RBM is now our in-house tool for project evaluation and appraisal. Neil opened my eyes to critical issues of linking activities to results and impacts." — Dr Steve Ogidan, National Coordinating Consultant, Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending

"The training helped me to improve my knowledge on how to develop social projects more efficiently with better performance and greater accountability by applying a clear logical framework to plan, manage and measure an intervention with a focus on results." — Elçin Demirel, Regional Coordinator, TAMEB (German-Turkish Partnership for Vocational Skills Development)

Course Details

Includes:

• Lifetime access to comprehensive modules with downloadable videos, handouts, and transcripts
• Practical templates and planning tools for immediate application
• End-of-module assessments and certificate of completion
• Course discussion forum to share insights and questions with peers

Course developed and presented by Neil Kendrick, founder of ELD Impact, with 25+ years of experience training humanitarian professionals across 20+ countries.