MONITORING EVALUATION AND DATA ANALYSIS FOR COMMUNITY BASED PROJECTS

MONITORING EVALUATION AND DATA ANALYSIS FOR COMMUNITY BASED PROJECTS

Start Date: 04/10/2021 End Date: 15/10/2021 for 10 days
Register online: https://skillsforafrica.org/course/99

Organizer: Skills for Africa Training Institute (https://skillsforafrica.org)

Course fee: USD 2,400

INTRODUCTION

This course focuses on the operations of community projects. The course aims at educating participants on the programmes of monitoring and evaluation implemented to ensure successful community projects. The course acknowledges the need for an improved monitoring and evaluation system, thus aims to equip participants with skills in the creation of effective monitoring and evaluation systems

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Processes of project management
• Knowledge areas of project management
• Project management formulas, theories and charts
• Complex project network diagrams
• Use of data analysis software (NVivo, Stata, Excel, SAS)

DURATION

10 Days

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course targets project management official from non-governmental organizations, National statistics offices, researchers, governmental ministries, Planning ministries, and financial institutions, among others.

COURSE OUTLINE

• Principles and concepts of project management
• Development and development frameworks issues
• Community types
• Community development and empowerment
• Distribution of development resources
• Community projects designing
• Involvement of community in development projects
• Management of project cycle
• Need and project stakeholders’ analysis
• Influence mapping
• Control and implementation
• Development stakeholders management
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Project monitoring auditing techniques
• Evaluation of project management systems and practices
• Monitoring indicators and systems designing
• Collaboration with national bodies, and project staff
• Social and institutional change evaluation
• Results and impact measuring
• Economic, social, and environmental impact assessment
• Variables and indicators
• The LOGFRAME approach
• Techniques of sampling and surveys
• Characteristics of data and sources
• Techniques of appraisals
• Systems and tools of monitoring and evaluation
• Data management standards
• Identification and presentation of data outputs
• consulting stakeholders
• development of the project performance audit report

GENERAL NOTES

· This course is delivered by our seasoned trainers who have vast experience as expert professionals in the respective fields of practice. The course is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group works and case studies.

· Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.

· Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be issued with a certificate.

· We can also do this as tailor-made course to meet organization-wide needs. Contact us to find out more: [email protected]

· The training will be conducted at SKILLS FOR AFRICA TRAINING INSTITUTE IN NAIROBI KENYA.

· The training fee covers tuition fees, training materials, lunch and training venue. Accommodation and airport transfer are arranged for our participants upon request.

· Payment should be sent to our bank account before start of training and proof of payment sent to: [email protected]

 

 

MAP INFO PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Start Date: 04/10/2021 End Date: 08/10/2021 for 5 days
Register online: https://skillsforafrica.org/course/100

Organizer: Skills for Africa Training Institute (https://skillsforafrica.org)

Course fee: USD 1,200

INTRODUCTION

MapInfo Professional is a desktop geographic information system (GIS) software product produced by Pitney Bowes Software (formerly MapInfo Corporation) and used for mapping and location analysis.

This course will help participant(s) start with MapInfo Software and how to use MapInfo efficiently and tasks that you could achieve from it. Participant(s) will be able to visualize, analyze, edit, interpret, understand and output data to reveal relationships, patterns, and trends. MapInfo allows users to explore spatial data within a dataset, symbolize features, and create maps.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the end of this course, the participant will be able to:

• GIS functions, applications and components
• Database organization
• Creation of new tables work with raster layers
• Importing external databases and join tables
• Management of attributes and perform SQL selections
• Management of raster and vector layers
• Advanced skills in creating vectorial data

 

DURATION

5 days

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is open to all individuals willing to learn about map information used by professionals.

COURSE CONTENT

Module I: Introduction

· Introduction to GIS

· How GIS works

· The main GIS functions, applications and components

Presentation of MapInfo software

· MapInfo and adds-on presentation

· The interface presentation

· Databases organization

· The vector objects definition (point, polyline, and polygon)

Module II: Getting started with MapInfo

· Open / Save / Close a MapInfo document (.wor)

· Create a new workspace and open a MapInfo table

· Navigate in the different windows, menus and tools

· Navigate in the map and attribute windows

· Display coordinates

· Measure a distance

· Where is the projection of a MapInfo table?

· Interaction between geometry and attribute data set

· Create a new MapInfo table from a selection

Module III: Standard manipulations

· The layers and legends control

· The layer DRAW

· Labels (display objects’ attributes data on the map)

· Create a legend

· Thematic analysis (simple functions)

· Page layout

Work with raster layers

· Open raster imagery

· Raster management within MapInfo

· Logical raster layers

Import external databases, table join

· Analysis and modification of the structure of a table by adding new fields

· Import of Microsoft Excel data (.xls)

· Join between 2 tables (2 methods)

Attributes management, SQL selections

· Attributes

· Queries and SQL selection in MapInfo

· Thematic analysis, advanced setup, advanced labels / export

Module IV: Advanced Raster and Vector data management

· Add Microsoft BING Maps and openStreemap

· Georeferencing raster imagery

· Advanced queries and SQL selections

· Know how with SQL queries

· Filter information

· Column updates

· Link 2 tables (dynamic)

· Crossing SQL queries on 2 MapInfo tables

· Grouping data

· Joins

· Advanced SQL language and queries (attributes and spatial)

· Table merging.

· Advanced digitalization

Module V: Advanced creation of vectorial data (MAPCAD)

· Verification of data

· CAD databases

· Import and structure AUTOCAD datasets (DXF / DWG)

· External database

· How MapInfo handle external relational external database (Microsoft Access, PostGIS)

· Easy loader tool

· Connect a Microsoft Access database

· Connect a PostgreSQL / PostGIS database

· Mapping RDBMS tables

GENERAL NOTES

· This course is delivered by our seasoned trainers who have vast experience as expert professionals in the respective fields of practice. The course is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group works and case studies.

· Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.

· Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be issued with a certificate.

· We can also do this as tailor-made course to meet organization-wide needs. Contact us to find out more: [email protected]

· The training will be conducted at SKILLS FOR AFRICA TRAINING INSTITUTE IN NAIROBI KENYA.

· The training fee covers tuition fees, training materials, lunch and training venue. Accommodation and airport transfer are arranged for our participants upon request.

· Payment should be sent to our bank account before start of training and proof of payment sent to: [email protected]