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Good morning,

I would like to present our firm, Universalia, which is a Canadian management-consulting firm founded in 1980, with offices in Montreal and Ottawa.

Owned by six active shareholders, Universalia has 26 staff members consisting of consultants, technical support providers and accountants. In addition to its core personnel, Universalia has developed a wide network of associate consultants around the world, who are incorporated into specific assignments as needed to enhance the capacities of our project teams and to provide insight into local and specialized subject matter.

Over the last 27 years, we have been engaged in improving the performance of client organizations throughout Canada and in more than 90 countries worldwide. Our core personnel offers clients multilingual services in monitoring and evaluation, project and program management and implementation, performance management, and training and capacity building.

For more information, please visit our website at: http://www.universalia.com.

Thank you for having developed this platform to discuss and promote M&E.

Best Regards,

Marc Vallée

Consultant
Universalia Management Group
mvallee@universalia.com

By Marc Vallée on Oct 10, 2008

Who are the M&E service providers in Africa? Don’t they exist?

By Stella Mukasa on Jun 21, 2009

Hi Stella, although we are based in the UK, we run regular courses in Cape Town covering M&E and other project skills. Have a look at our website at http://www.imainternational.com for more information.

By Ben Mitchell on Mar 29, 2010

can i get help in establishing a centre in zimbabwe

By Tavirai Marega on Apr 23, 2010

What is evaluation 5.0?

We are tired of reports that collect dust on shelves. Building on four generations of evaluation, we want to incorporate new ways of collaborating and communicating into evaluation processes.

1. We look at evaluations as collective and co-creative exercises
2. We think the behaviours of evaluators and evaluated critcally influence process and outcomes
3. We include the whole chain of stakeholders, including donors
4. We turn the chain upside down: make evaluations serve local organisations so they can improve quality
5. We think the evaluationprocess has to empower the evaluated: learning takes place in the process
6. We use images (photographs & videos) as well as text as means for reflection and communication
7. We choose for constructivist methodologies and build on 4th generation, Most Significant Change and Outcome mapping methods.
8. Besides face2face meetings and paper, we use internet to support collaboration and information sharing.

By Evaluation 5.0 on Apr 29, 2010

Greetings,
I am looking for any information on French-speaking courses (3 months university based) on Project Monitoring & Evaluation. This would be for a national staff personnel whom I manage. I would like to propose a intensive 3 month course at the unviersity level on Project M & E. I would be interested in Senegal, France or Belguim.

Best Regards

By Wes on May 21, 2010

Greetings
Am looking forward to register for an online course on M& E. Kindly link me to an instituion offering this course.

By Roseirene on Jul 7, 2010

I am looking for a short practical training course on RBM-linked M&E to be held in Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta, Hanoi or Kathmandu in September or October 2010.
Is there anything out there?

By Georgina Houghton on Jul 14, 2010

I am from Ethiopia work as M & E Specialist. I want to build my capacity & upgrade with the M & E tools. Therefore, I am looking for fully sponsored short term practical training course on RBM-linked M&E. Is there anything out there?
With Best Regards,

T. Fitta

By T. Fitta on Aug 24, 2010