Author Buck, L., Kozar, R., Recha, J., Desalegn, A., Planicka, C. & Hart, A.

Year of publication 2014

This manual will aid trainers of sustainable land management (SLM) professionals to organize and conduct effective courses on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) from an integrated landscape management perspective. The manual provides a curriculum for building the capacities of SLM project and program managers, as well as M&E specialists, to practice M&E in ways that support a landscape approach to SLM. It presents a sequence of learning activities that enable trainers to introduce concepts and practices that build leadership for monitoring and evaluating SLM initiatives which stand to impact agricultural productivity, ecological conservation and livelihood security as well as institutional strengthening outcomes. Through training courses built around the curriculum, SLM leaders will gain insight into designing and implementing M&E systems that help to bring about multiple desired impacts from SLM initiatives. Professionals who are entrusted to help build leadership for M&E in the context of SLM initiatives in Africa are expected to be primary users of the manual. The manual is designed to assist in the mentoring of adult learners. Through practice in using the manual, professionals who are active in capacity building for SLM and related initiatives will develop the competencies needed to train project and program leaders, including M&E specialists, in groups.