Training/Mentoring
We provide research capacity building services through our training and mentoring programme to postgraduate students and other young investigators. Specifically, our training and mentoring services focus on proposal and programme development, programme monitoring and evaluation, and programme dissemination.
Proposal and programme development
- Grant proposal writing
- Assessment of individual and community needs
- Policy development
- Research planning and implementation
- Stakeholder engagement
- Plan, coordinate and implement programmes
- Advocacy
Programme monitoring and evaluation
- Monitoring of programmes
- Indicators' development
- Development of instruments for data collection
- Data entry/transcription, analysis & interpretation
- Development of actionable recommendations
Programme dissemination
- Development of social marketing and mass media campaigns
- Development of audio, visual, print and electronic materials
- Write scholarly articles and publication
We also offer advanced level training in the scientific proposal and grant writing, Data Collection,
Management & Analysis, and Research/Project Dissemination, and Field-Based Monitoring and Evaluation.
| Scientific Proposal and Grant Writing |
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| Proposal Elements (Background, Problem statement, Justification, Research question, Objectives & Hypothesis) |
| Literature Review (Conceptual, Empirical and Theoretical Reviews) |
| Research Methods (Study designs, Sampling, Methods of data collection, Pilot design, Ethical issues) |
| Reference Management (Harvard, Vancouver, APA, Turabian styles) |
| Work Plan Development |
| Budget Writing |
| Data Collection, Management & Analysis |
| Instruments Development (Questionnaire, Observational checklist, and KII, IDI and FGD guides) |
| Quantitative Data Coding and Entry |
| Electronic Data Collection Technique (Cloud set-up, Data collection and extraction, and analysis) |
| Qualitative Data Transcription and Surface Reading |
| Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA Miner & Nvivo) |
| Quantitative Data Analysis (Excel and SPSS) |
| Research/Project Dissemination |
| Writing of Scholarly Articles |
| Abstract Writing for International Conferences |
| Publication in Peer-Reviewed Journals |
| Field-Based Monitoring and Evaluation |
| M & E Plan (Proposal, Work plan Development and Budget Writing) |
| Indicators (Outcomes, Outputs & Impacts) |
| Data Collection, Management & Analysis |
| M & E Reporting |