The course aims at a broader conceptual understanding of the role of impact assessment and introduces to recent concepts of monitoring and evaluating impacts of projects and programmes in development cooperation. The course enables participants to design appropriate impact monitoring approaches and methods for assessing mid- and long term effects of development interventions.

Introduction into the basics of resource utilisation. It analyses aspects of demographic change, discusses political, societal and economic factors and models of sustainable resource utilisation and analyses national and international instruments of environmental protection.

The topics are selected on the basis of their actual and future relevance for the international development cooperation:• Project / Programme Cycle Management• Governance and the Millenium Development Goals in Sub-Sahara Africa• Governance and DecentralisationAdditionally, the seminar deals with the topic „Climatic Change"

The course deals with different approaches and types of evaluations within the framework of development projects. The participants acquire knowledge and skills for the use of methods for the analysis of project processes and results and their use in project management. In order to deepen the understanding, practical project examples are focused on.

Students are familiarized with fundamental linkages between industrial development and environmental damages. The course imparts basic knowledge about efficient instruments of environment policy to control industrial emissions and about possible interventions of development assistance.

The course provides an introduction into the contemporary practice of project and programme monitoring in development cooperation by introducing theoretical approaches and their implementation. On the basis of practical experiences, the course presents the steps of data collection and analysis, reporting and implementation of the results for steering purposes.

The course introduces the systematic, result-based and process-related approaches in the planning of projects and programmes in development cooperation. Starting with a need assessment, the different planning steps as well as the roles of the involved stakeholders are presented and discussed. This planning process is illustrated with concrete case studies.

This course offers an introduction to project cycle management (PCM). Case studies are used to deal with issues of project identification, project planning, project monitoring, and project evaluation. The lectures also aquaint with methods of data collection in the context of development projects.