GEI Training and Professional Development Programs

This course is a self-paced online training designed to provide foundational frameworks and tools for evaluating the environmental dimensions of a development intervention. With the increasing global awareness on how social and economic issues are interrelated with environmental issues, this course aims to fill the gap in knowledge and skills on how to integrate environmental considerations in evaluations of development interventions.

Objective(s): strengthen participants’ technical skills within monitoring and evaluation, qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, and project management; help participants further advance their career in the development field; provide networking opportunities to forge connections with like-minded peers.

Objective(s): equip participants with the technical tools to apply a structured and highly practical approach to programme design and implementation, incorporating economic theory and evidence at every stage; help determine mechanisms that can help ensure that development policies and programmes in Pakistan achieve maximum impact.

Objective(s): teach participants how to apply a structured, data-driven approach to decision making; appreciate that data is accessible, practical, and applicable; recognize and articulate the value of grounding decisions in explicitly stated theories; understand and apply the principles of iterative design to refine and improve programmes, policies and products; and lead organisational change to build a culture of evidence-driven innovation

Scope: course content primarily focuses on the use of big data, and envisioning and leading a data-savvy organization of any kind.

Objective(s): investigate individual and organisational barriers to using data and evidence, and work with local collaborating organisations to systematically address these constraints in their own context.

Scope: Systematic Approaches to Policy Decisions, Cost Benefit Analysis, Descriptive Evidence, Commissioning Evidence, Aggregating Evidence, Impact Evaluations, and Using Data Systems

Objective(s): build participants’ ability to leverage data to make strategic decisions and use iterative design to rapidly test and hone their solutions as well as provide participants with tools and skills necessary to solve their companies’ most pressing problems, harness growth opportunities and change the socio-economic and industrial landscape of Pakistan.

Objective(s): provide a thorough grounding in conducting randomised evaluations for measuring the impact of social programmes and policies.

Scope: the programme covers methods and considerations for the design and implementation of randomised evaluations, and how findings can inform evidence-based policies and programmes.

Objective(s): provide a comprehensive introduction to the concepts in measurement theory and quantitative survey design.

Scope: the programme covers the practical and theoretical aspects of collecting high-quality data, particularly for concepts that are difficult to measure, through an array of pedagogical tools including lectures, case studies, and experiential exercises.

Objective(s): help participants build necessary perspectives and skills on why and how to conduct gender transformative evaluations, introduces participants to the concepts of both gender and evaluation and enable them to bring in a critical gender transformative lens when conducting evaluations.