New online community for M&E professionals, Funding opportunities, Employment opportunities

We have a busy week with many new updates – a great new online community for M&E professionals www.mymande.org (I hope to keep in touch with you all there!); 3ie has launched a new round of funding; another training program in Pretoria; and a number of employment opportunities. Good luck to all those applying!

As usual, please do let us know if you hear of new resources, jobs or funding so we can share this with the larger group.

Kind regards, Anna

New Online Community

We are pleased to inform you that UNICEF, IOCE and DevInfo, in partnership with several major stakeholders, launched MyM&E,
accessible at www.mymande.org.

MyM&E is an interactive web 2.0 platform to facilitate social networking and strengthening national capacities on Country-led M&E systems worldwide.

In addition to being a learning resource, the platform is a valuable tool for creating a global community, as well as identifying good practices and lessons learned, on Country-led M&E systems.

Through MyM&E users are able to:

· add to growing knowledge by contributing to the WikiEvaluation and uploading new documents and videos;

· comment on existing articles, videos and webinars;

· interact in real time through webinars and blogs;

· be part of a professional M&E social community by creating their own social profile in LinkedIn

· learn from selected practical handbooks, manuals and books accessible in the virtual library;

· access technical advice through the practical “how to” guidance on how to plan, conduct and use M&E systems and evaluations;

· search an inventory of training delivered by different institutions all over the world

· post their CV (in the case of evaluators offering services) as well as their own vacancies (in the case of institutions looking for evaluators) in international evaluation rosters

For additional information, please get in contact with Marco Segone, UNICEF Evaluation Office, at msegone@unicef.org.

Training Opportunity

Master of Public Health Degree Program
With a concentration in monitoring and evaluation

School of Health Systems and Public Health
University of Pretoria, South Africa

USAID's MEASURE Evaluation Project is pleased to announce that the School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH) at the University of Pretoria in South Africa is currently accepting applications for the 2011- 2012 Master of Public Health Degree Program.

The MEASURE Evaluation project has been collaborating with University of Pretoria to offer a monitoring and evaluation concentration in this 18-month Master’s program in order to increase the capacity for monitoring and evaluating population, health and nutrition programs. Taught in English, it is geared toward professionals in developing countries of the Africa region.

The application deadline is July 31, 2010, and classes begin January 2011.

A limited number of MEASURE Evaluation fellowships are available to qualified students from USAID- assisted countries.

Please find a brochure and application materials attached. This announcement is not only intended to serve as a means of informing you of the availability of the program, but also to ask for referrals of applicants. There may be promising employees working in monitoring and evaluation of PHN programs who would be able to increase their contributions to this field by enhancing their M&E skills by attending this graduate level training. We would appreciate your forwarding this announcement to potential applicants.

For more information, contact the MEASURE Evaluation Training Officer:

Email: measure_training@unc.edu
or fax: (919) 966-2391,

or visit MEASURE Evaluation's website at
www.cpc.unc.edu/measure click on "training"

Funding opportunity for evaluation research

3ie has just issued a call for proposals for quality impact evaluations under its Open Window Round 3 ( detailed call is attached). Read more on how to apply at: http://www.3ieimpact.org/openwindow/

Employment opportunities

1. Epidemiologist

The Liverpool School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

See attached job announcement

2. Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
PATH
Washington, DC
http://www.coregroup.org/our-network/job-listings/jobline/details/128

3. Senior Technical Officer for Reserach, Monitoring and
Evaluation
Project Concern International
http://www.coregroup.org/our-network/job-listings/jobline/details/130

4. Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

International Medical Corps
Haiti
http://www.coregroup.org/our-network/job-listings/jobline/details/138

5. Evaluation Consultant

International Medical Corps

Haiti
http://www.coregroup.org/our-network/job-listings/jobline/details/139