To become expert in any of study, a practitioner should obviously gain the required competences through accumulating subject matter knowledge and skills. Knowledge refers to theoretical information acquired about any subject whereas skills refer to practical application of that knowledge (Kumar, 2015). In fact, knowledge can be learned whereas skills require practical exposure and can also be born with. Skill is the ability and capacity acquired through deliberate, systematic, and sustained effort to smoothly and adaptively carryout complex activities or job functions involving ideas for instance cognitive skills, things such as technical skills, and/or people-interpersonal skills (Dictionary, 2020). Ultimately, both knowledge and skill are required to have a be expert in a certain field of study. This is the same thing for M&E field but, depending on everyone choice, people can keep their M&E proficiency at different levels.
HOREX curriculum specifies seven course modules and nine skills M&E practitioners should respectively learn and develop to become an M&E expert. The modules include Building an Effective M&E system, Survey and Data Management, Data Summarization and Visualization, Quantitative Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, and Robust Evaluation Designs. In addition to outlining respective course requirements, the curriculum describes MEL profession in three levels: M&E Professional (Level I), Advanced Monitoring Professional (Level II), and Evaluation Researcher (Level III).
