12 practical topics, three days in Nairobi, and your own programme rebuilt around results — a theory of change, a results framework, a monitoring plan and a report somebody believes.
Practical learning experiences delivered across Africa. A few moments from previous Vantage Africa cohorts:
Most programme reporting counts what was done: workshops held, people reached, materials distributed. All of it can be true while nothing has actually changed for anybody.
A results chain that commits you to an outcome, with the assumptions underneath it written down rather than hoped for.
A short video on why counting activities is the easiest way to look busy and achieve nothing.
Video holder · Add approved clip hereMonitoring data read as a decision to continue, adjust or stop — while there is still time to do any of them.
A results framework written to satisfy a donor and then filed is paperwork. The same framework used to decide what to change in month four is management. This programme is about the second one.
The pathway is designed around what you will be able to do. You begin guided virtual learning as soon as you register, then build on it during three practical days in Nairobi, 17–19 May 2027.
The logic, the indicators and the plan for collecting the evidence.
Three focused days on data, decisions, evaluation and reporting, in Nairobi.
Proposed allocation: topics 1–5 are guided online and cover the results logic; topics 6–12 are worked through during the three physical days, on your own programme, with a facilitator beside you.
Explore each topic below. The real test is whether you could show somebody what changed, and why.
A number in a report proves nothing on its own. What gets checked here is whether the results chain holds, whether the indicator would have moved for any other reason, and whether the evidence behind each figure would survive somebody asking where it came from.
Join the 12-topic pathway →One you are running or designing, with its funding and its constraints.
Outputs to outcomes to impact, with every assumption named.
With a baseline, a target and somebody who can actually collect them.
Who collects what, how often, and how you will know it is any good.
To colleagues asking what a donor, an auditor and your board will ask.
The reference material comes with the programme. The thing worth carrying home is your own results architecture — the chain, the framework, the indicators and the monitoring plan — argued through with facilitators and peers before a donor ever sees it.
StudyGenius guides you through progressive skill-building, practice, feedback and applied challenges. Try a lesson free.
Explore StudyGenius ↗Video placeholder — insert an approved clip of Dr. Benson building a results chain from a programme description.
You are not simply buying training days. You are investing in programmes that can show what they achieved, and a community of peers.
18,000+ professionals trained across 30+ countries, including government, NGO and development-sector teams.
Guided by Dr. Benson Kiarie and experienced faculty; every exercise runs on data from real organisations.
Observable work, feedback and practical checks — and a results architecture you could submit with the next proposal.
Most programmes run the workplan and hope the result follows. Results-based management is the discipline of steering towards the result instead — asking in month four whether it is actually happening, while continuing, adjusting or stopping are all still open to you.
See the 12 topics →Three decisions, taken on evidence, at a point in the cycle where any of them is still possible — and defensible to the donor afterwards.
One of the 12 topics is given to adaptive decisions directly.
The programme is built around practical work rather than attendance. You rebuild your own programme’s results architecture and defend it to colleagues asking what a donor, an auditor and your board will ask.
Yes. The pathway covers all 12 topics, 5 guided online and 7 in the room, subject to the programme’s formal assessment decisions.
The first 5 are introduced through guided online work before the workshop and cover the results logic. The remaining 7 form the focus of the three physical days in Nairobi, spent on data, decisions, evaluation and reporting.
Yes. Under the standard-fee pathway, the $80 initial payment counts toward $580 and leaves $500 payable. The $480 offer is for early full payment, not the instalment plan.
The programme is planned for Nairobi, Kenya on 17–19 May 2027. The exact venue will be confirmed by the Vantage Africa team before a final booking commitment.
CMEP is the professional certification for people who do monitoring and evaluation as their job, assessed across 27 competencies. This one is for the manager accountable for the programme’s results. They share a vocabulary and many organisations send people to both.
It helps, and most participants bring one. A proposal in development works just as well — the results chain is usually where a proposal gets stronger.
Yes. Contact Vantage Africa for an invitation letter, invoice or a tailored in-house proposal.
Let us tailor results-based management, the MEL system that feeds it, or a bespoke programme performance pathway to your organisation, sector and challenges.
Contact Dr. Benson · +254 725 303 645 · bkiarie@vantageafricaleaders.comBecome the person who can show what the programme changed, and prove it.