Priorty 3: Upgrading of Technical and substantive Skills

Poverty Analysis Training

Duration: 5 days (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
Training date: 14 - 18 January 2008
Venue: IT Learning Lab, Learning Centre
Facilitator:
Mr. Jose Ramon Albert, Senior Research Fellow
Philippine Institute for Development Studies

Target audience: Staff members form substantive divisions.

Objectives:

The workshop objective is to enhance the capacity of participants with regard to measuring, monitoring and analysing poverty. After completing the workshop participants are:

• Familiar with concepts on poverty measurements from household surveys, •  Able to undertake studies on poverty analysis, including the effective use of software applications such as STATA, and •  Able to construct poverty profiles from micro data of household surveys.

The course/workshop will consist of presentations by the consultant, completion of computer hands-on/practical exercises by workshop participants, presentations and discussions and sharing of findings by participants of their workshop outputs on constructing Poverty Profiles.

 

Contact person: Ms. Sylvia Raabe, extension no. 1964