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Training courses offered by REPOA are advertised in the newspaper and on this website at Coming Events. REPOA provides training as part of its own programme and on behalf of other parties. Listed below are some of the workshops offered under REPOA's training programme.
Training for Researchers
REPOA trains researchers in order to increase the number of researchers capable of undertaking policy relevant quality research on poverty issues and other related contemporary topics. Some of the courses offered are:
Data Exploration and Resampling Methods in Applied Statistics
This course provides practical guidance to beginning researchers on how to use data as a tool for discovery, i.e. getting ideas from the data (hypotheses seeking).
Researchers learn to:
· Describe a distribution
· Compare distributions
· Describe a conditional distribution
· Carry out diagnostic analysis
· Assess sampling uncertainty from data
· The principle of plausible inference: description as analysis Designing Research: Practical Skills for Researchers
This course, which is run in two stages, provides practical guidance to beginning and intermediate researchers on how to overcome the hurdle of conceptualising and designing feasible research projects. Participatory Research Methods
The objective of this course is to equip researchers with a range of participatory research methods and tools, and to provide practical guidance in testing and evaluating these methods in a field setting.
The course content includes:
- Understanding Participation
- Approaches to Methods of Participatory Research Methodologies
- Practicing Participatory Research
Training for Grassroots CSO Researchers
This course on fact-finding research is set to equip participants with the necessary skills to facilitate local communities in identifying and analysing development challenges which need intervention, and in finding solutions to the same. Researchers from Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) learn: - Participatory research methods and participatory research techniques that can be used to facilitate planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation processes;
- How to identify and prioritise community needs for interventions (Situation analysis) through focus group discussions and interviews;
- How to develop and design a participatory action plan, and a monitoring system;
- Information gathering techniques and methods of information analysis;
- Report writing and facilitation skills, and
- How to manage a project's cycle.
Research Report Writing Skills The objective of this course is to provide practical guidance to beginning and intermediate researchers on how to write good quality research reports with potential for publication. Topics covered include: - Why writing is not about “getting it right the first time"
- How to structure reports and articles more effectively
- How introductions can be structured to call attention to the problem being addressed in the research
- How to focus a text so that readers will understand the message
- Using sources: What works and what doesn’t
Training for Research Users
Training addresses two groups of research users. The first group is policy makers, for whom the training is aimed at enhancing their capacity to analyse and interpret research findings and translate these into policy related recommendations and interventions. The second group is the non-governmental stakeholders, for whom the training is aimed at informing on policies and strategies and enhancing their analytical capacity to constructively debate and engage with government.
Some of the courses offered are:
Budget Analysis
This training enhances the capacity of CSOs to analyse and understand the national budget and the government processes that impact on the allocation and utilisation of resources. The knowledge and skills imparted help CSOs to play a more effective role in working with the government to strengthen the planning and budgetary systems at all levels of government.
The course content includes:
• The National Budget’s framework – revenue and expenditure
• Planning and budget processes at the national and council levels and their linkages
• The execution of the Government’s plans and budgets, and entry points for CSOs
• Methods and tools for analysing and monitoring the National Budget
• Links to MKUKUTA’s goals and targets
• Using the Tanzania Governance Noticeboard (TGN) to access and analyse budget data
Training on Public Expenditure Tracking Systems (PETS)
The objectives of training on PETS are: - To improve the confidence and capacity of Local Government Authorities to provide financial information;
- To improve the confidence and capacity of CSOs and councillors to ask for and use information from their local governments, and
- To chart out a way forward for institutionalising a public expenditure tracking system in local governments.
Training for the Media on Using the Tanzania Governance Noticeboard (TGN) The objective of the training is to encourage journalists to use TGN as a resource for generating and supporting articles.
Last published: February 2009 |
