IFPRI researchers undertook several capacity strengthening activities in Bangladesh in 2019. The activities focused on various policy research and implementation topics. A brief description is provided below:
- Akhter Ahmed conducted a training on 'Concepts and Tools for Policy Analysis' for mid-level Ministry of Food officials in March 2019. The training had 15 male and 3 female participants. For more information, click here.
- IFPRI staff conducted a workshop 'Bracing for the future: A Participatory Exercise on Foresight for Food Systems in South Asia'. This 4-day workshop was organized to a) Provide participants a clear understanding of the food systems perspective; 2) introduce them to some of the key concepts, techniques and processes involved in a foresight exercise for food system and to 3) use interactive modules to give participants a better idea of how to carry out food system analysis and implement participatory foresight exercise. The workshop helped in creating a small cadre of young women and men policy makers, academics and private sector professionals from Bangladesh, India and Nepal who- a) understand the value of foresight exercises for food systems and b) to trigger their interest in undertaking participatory foresight exercises. The workshop had 20 male and 25 female participants. For more information, click here.
- IFPRI staff conducted a 'Data analysis using STATA training workshop (Urban Socioeconomic Assessment Survey (USAS))'. This 5-day training workshop entitled 'Urban Socioeconomic Assessment Survey (USAS) data analysis using STATA' was held at Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), GoB from 19 to 23 January 2020. BBS, World Food Program (WFP), and IFPRI Bangladesh jointly organized the workshop. The main objective of the workshop was to enhance the skills of the BBS personnel in survey data analysis using STATA. The training program started with a very short inaugural session where the Director-General of BBS, WFP representative, Country Representative of IFPRI Bangladesh were present. It ended up by a closing session where the top five learners were incentivized. The workshop had 12 male and 6 female participants. For more information, click here.
- A CIMMYT-led training was organized in Bangladesh for Govt. extension officers and others working around Fall Armyworm (FAW). Department of Agriculture Extension-Bangladesh, Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute, USAID and CIMMYT had organized this training. Smriti Saini and I attended this training to understand the issue so as to prepare for the study around FAW to be undertaken in Nepal and Bangladesh. For more information, click here.
- IFPRI staff provided training on qualitative research and data collection as well as gender analysis for qualitative field facilitators. This also included thorough review, edits and translation of the protocols as well as rounds of practice and debriefing after field test. The training had 1 male and 4 female participants. The training led to use of skills by participants to produce research outputs. For more information, click here.
- IFPRI staff conducted training to teach participants about economy-wide modeling approaches, including SAM multipliers and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. The training had 19 male and 8 female participants. For more information, click here.
- Hazel Malapit in collaboration with Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing presented a seminar on “The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index – What have we learned?” organized by IFPRI's Bangladesh Policy Research and Strategy Support Program (PRSSP) on March 19, 2019 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The training had 18 male and 15 female participants. For more information, click here.
- Nicholas Minot, Paul Dorosh, Shahidur Rashid, Suresh Babu, Avinash Kishore, Akhter Ahmed, Razin Kabir gave a five-day training course for staff at Ministry of Food of Bangladesh between February and March 2019. The training had 18 male and 3 female participants. For more information, click here.
- James Thurlow, Angga Pradesha, Brian Holtemeyer on economy-wide modeling approaches, including SAM multipliers and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model in July 2019. The training had 19 male and 8 female participants. For more information, click here.