Data Analysis For Sustainable Development Planning

Announcement in Brief

Date : 29 April – 10 May 2019
Duration : 2 weeks
Language : Bilingual (English & French)
Location : Dakar, Senegal
Programme Area : Data Analysis
Frais d’inscription : $2,500 (Excluding air travel and subsistence costs)
Bourses : Yes (IDEP offers a limited number of partial and full scholarships) 
Application Deadline : 15 March, 2019

Objectives

The overarching objective of the course is to contribute to the development of a critical mass of highly skilled middle and senior policy officials and decision makers who will be suitably or better equipped to collect and/or analyze data for the purpose of national, sub-regional, and regional sustainable development planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. More specifically, the course will provide training on different methods and types of data collection and analyses. The course content covers a range of both theoretical and practical issues in data collection and analysis in relation to the monitoring of SDGs. Softwares which can be deployed to undertake complex analyses will be demonstrated and their uses taught.