University of Cape Town: Programme Management: A Monitoring and Evaluation Approach
Learn to manage complex programs, and discover the key monitoring and evaluation tools that help facilitate success.
Learn to manage complex programs, and discover the key monitoring and evaluation tools that help facilitate success.
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Programme Management: A Monitoring and Evaluation Approach
About this Course
While project management is vital in ensuring that specific tasks run according to plan, it takes a program manager to successfully lead a collection of projects to meet high-level goals.
The Programme Management: A Monitoring and Evaluation Approach online short course from the University of Cape Town (UCT) helps you understand how best to design, plan, and implement a program, as well as actively monitor and evaluate phases throughout the process.
Over eight weeks, you’ll engage with the core aspects of program management across the four key phases of the program life cycle, namely diagnosis, planning and design, monitoring and implementation, and outcomes. You’ll also explore the tools required in each phase, and gain strategies for finance and resource tracking against a program goal.
With expert guidance from experienced UCT faculty, you’ll walk away with the key stakeholder management and governance skills needed to successfully deliver on programs of various size and scope.
This course will be relevant to anyone who wants to lead a program or collection of projects towards a common goal. This includes both individuals in the public sector who must strategically deliver on programs with economic and social benefits, and private sector professionals who must report projects against funds and objectives.
Project, product, and portfolio managers will find the program management skills and tools learned in this course valuable to their current roles. Additionally, existing program managers, project coordinators, and program coordinators can grow in confidence and signal their worth to their employers with an updated skill set and certificate of completion as validation of their knowledge.
Gain the tools and knowledge required for effective program management, and earn an official certificate of completion from the University of Cape Town.
Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.
Some facts about the subject
34%
The percentage of South African organizations that have no understanding of program and portfolio management, in contrast with the 99% that understand the value of project management.
Project Portfolio Office (2019).
19%
The number of projects and programs that deliver to full success.
IPMA, AIPM, and KPMG (Nov, 2019).