Workshops & Training

Hands-on training programs designed for researchers, practitioners, and policy professionals working on development challenges.

Training Programs

Each workshop combines conceptual foundations with practical, hands-on exercises drawn from real field research projects.

Field Study Design & Implementation

Learn to design and implement rigorous field studies from scratch -- from research question formulation through sampling, enumeration, and quality assurance in challenging field environments.

What You Will Learn

  • Research question formulation and study design
  • Sampling strategies for village-level studies
  • Enumerator recruitment, training, and management
  • Quality control protocols and back-checks
  • IRB/ethics compliance for field research
  • Logistics planning for multi-site data collection
3-5 days 15-25 participants Intermediate

Survey Design & Data Collection

Master the craft of survey instrument design and digital data collection. Covers questionnaire construction, CAPI programming, pilot testing, and data management workflows for development research.

What You Will Learn

  • Questionnaire design principles and cognitive testing
  • CAPI tools: SurveyCTO, KoboToolbox, ODK
  • Skip logic, validation rules, and constraints
  • Pilot testing and instrument refinement
  • Real-time data monitoring dashboards
  • Data cleaning and documentation standards
2-3 days 15-30 participants Beginner to Intermediate

Secondary Research Methods

Navigate the landscape of secondary data sources for development research. Learn to identify, access, clean, and analyze publicly available datasets for policy-relevant analysis.

What You Will Learn

  • Major secondary data sources (NSS, ARIS/REDS, IHDS, CMIE)
  • Government data portals and administrative datasets
  • Data merging, harmonization, and panel construction
  • Working with geospatial and remote sensing data
  • Reproducible research workflows (R, Stata, Python)
  • Data documentation and replication packages
2-3 days 15-25 participants Intermediate

Web Scraping & Data Extraction

Acquire practical skills in extracting data from the web for research purposes. From simple table extraction to building automated scrapers, learn how to responsibly harvest data from online sources.

What You Will Learn

  • Identifying and evaluating web data sources
  • HTML structure and CSS selectors for scraping
  • Python tools: BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium
  • API access and JSON/XML data parsing
  • Ethical and legal considerations in web scraping
  • Data cleaning and structuring scraped content
2 days 10-20 participants Beginner to Intermediate

Custom Training Programs

Need a workshop tailored to your team's specific needs? We design custom training programs for organizations, research teams, and academic departments.

Academic Departments

Methods training for graduate students and faculty in economics, public policy, and development studies programs.

Development Organizations

Capacity building for M&E teams, research units, and program staff at NGOs, multilaterals, and government agencies.

Private Sector

Data skills training for agri-tech companies, insurance firms, and consulting organizations working in the development space.

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