Organization: Africa School of Project Management
Registration deadline: 29 Jan 2016
Starting date: 01 Feb 2016
Ending date: 05 Feb 2016
The Africa School of Project Management (ASPM) was established in the year 2000 in Kenya as a membership based professional management organisation. The school was formed to address capacity building needs among development partners, donor organizations, Government agencies, International and private sector firms in Africa.
The school has been pivotal in capacity building in South Sudan, South Africa, Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Congo, Somalia, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda. The school has trained over 12,000 staffs who are involved in different projects and also conducted surveys, evaluations and research in different projects and businesses in Africa.
Course Objectives
- Upon successful completion of this course participants should be able to:
- Come up with Questionnaires and apply SPSS in analysis.
- Discuss the relevance of reliable data collection process in Research
- Come up with policy research proposals
- Design appropriate research instruments
- Use relevant computer packages for data management and extrapolation
- Link research results to successful policy implementation
- To introduce the concepts of monitoring and evaluation and the value of implanting it to programs/projects
- To focus participant’s attention on monitoring and evaluation study designs
- To introduce mobile data collection platform using smart phones and the advantages of such innovations over the traditional tools)
- To use SPSS for M&E Data Management and Analysis
Course Contents
Fundamental concepts and tools for monitoring and evaluating programs
Advanced Microsoft Excel.
Observational data, quasi-experiments and correlation studies
Social experiments, natural experiments and Randomized control trials
Qualitative evaluation designs
Conceptual issues in M&E data
Data types and sources
Planning data Collection
Selecting study elements (Sampling)
ICT tools for Data processing
Comparison of Data analysis packages
Basic data quality checks
Basic exploratory data analysis procedures
Introduction to Quantitative analysis (Descriptive Summaries, Data Tabulation methods) o Graphing qualitative data Graphing Quantitative data
Performing common inferential statistical test (t-test, correlation, Chi Square, Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
Regression analysis and econometrics
Introduction to Geographic Information System (GIS)
Introduction to GIS Software (Quantum GIS)
Mobile GPS Field Work
Mapping M&E Indicators with Quantum GIS
Participatory Mapping and collective intelligence (Google Maps, Google Earth)
Application and use of SPSS.
Target Audience
· The course is recommended for the following;
· Departmental heads
· Data manager
· Research students
· Project or Departmental managers
· Project officers
Researchers
· Staffs involved in making informed decision
· Anyone involved in development projects · Anyone who aspires to be a good managers
Training methodologies
Face to face discussions lecture instructions
Case studies and demonstrations
Individual and Groups Assignments
Brainstorming sessions
How to register:
Please apply through the following link..... http://www.aspm.co.ke/index.php/online-application or drop us an Email at info@aspm.co.ke.
The tuition fee is US D 1,490 (Exclusive VAT).The rates cater for;
- Six hours training every day
- Training materials on soft / hard copy or both
- Certificate
- Meals-Tea at 10 Am, Lunch, Tea at 4 pm
- One Tour or visit to our National parks/Zoo
- Airport Transfer