Organization: Africa School of Project Management
Registration deadline: 04 Dec 2015
Starting date: 07 Dec 2015
Ending date: 11 Dec 2015
The Africa School of Project Management (ASPM) was established in the year 2000 in Kenya as a membership based proffesional 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.
Upon successful completion of this course participants should be able to:
Come up with Questionnaires and apply STATA, 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 STATA for M&E Data Management and Analysis
To introduce participants to GIS software, data capture methods, analysis, data importation and mapping indicators using GIS Techniques).
Course Contents
Fundamental concepts and tools for project Data analysis and management.
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
Obtaining data from Social media
Comparison of Data analysis packages
Introduction to SPSS
Introduction to STATA
Data Management in STATA
Basic data quality checks
Basic exploratory data analysis procedures
Introduction to Quantitative analysis (Descriptive Summaries, Data Tabulation methods)
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)
How to register:
Kindly visit http://www.aspm.co.ke/index.php/online-application or drop us mail 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 10Am, Lunch, Tea at 4pm
One Tour or visit to our National parks/Zoo
Airport Transfers