Karachi, November 03, 2021 (PPI-OT):In keeping with CERP’s aim to enable government decision making through evidence and data, CERP Executive Education conducted an exclusive 5-day training programme from 25-29 October 2021 in Lahore, for a team of 15 executives from the Planning and Development Department (P and DD), Govt. of Sindh.
Over the period of a week participants were immersed in a full day of training from experts in the field of programme evaluation and design to equip the participants with necessary theoretical and practical skills to effectively design evidence-based programmes. The training modules included Evidence-Based Programme Design, Theory of Change, Impact Evaluations, Becoming a better Consumer of Descriptive Evidence, Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation Methods, and Cost-Benefit Analysis among others.
CERP’s President and CEO, Maroof A. Syed, opened the training with a session on “Evidence-Based Program Design” and stated “In Evidence-Based Program Design, we dig deep into the problems and come up with root cause solutions instead of superficial ones”. Dr. Adnan Khan, Co-founder and Board Member CERP and Professor and Academic Director, School of Public Policy, LSE while delivering a session on Building State Capacity said “Bureaucratic effectiveness is contingent on creating a ‘Learning State’ with evidence-based decisions and active learning.”
The training modules conducted by Dr. Athar Osama, Founder and CEO of STEMx and Pakistan Innovation Foundation, and former member of the Planning Commission and Dr. Fareeha Armughan, Research Fellow at Sustainable Development Policy Institute, proved particularly engaging. This training was first of a series of capacity building workshops that will be conducted as part of CERP Executive Education’s collaboration with the P and DD, Govt. of Sindh.
For more information, contact:
Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP)
29-P Gulberg II, Lahore – 54660, Pakistan
Tel: +92-42-35777844
Email: contact@cerp.org.pk
Website: https://www.cerp.org.pk/