Research Fellows TRAINING Program

An important objective of MEASURE-BiH is to build social science research and program evaluation capacity in BiH to conduct high quality, independent evaluations and other studies. Development projects will not last forever in BiH. The skills to evaluate development interventions lend themselves to be easily transferred into skills to evaluate the impact of public policy, proposed legislation, and organic solutions to the challenges facing the country.

MEASURE-BiH’s unique social science research and program evaluation capacity building approach includes:

Developing a comprehensive Research Fellows Program in social science and program evaluation for independent local researchers, including both targeted training courses and learning-by-doing capacity building; and
Providing demand-driven MEL capacity building of BiH government / public institutions.

Our capacity building tasks will foster a culture of data-driven, results-oriented decision making in BiH.

MEASURE-BiH established Research Fellows Program in early 2015, in which almost 40 local researchers in the fields of economics, law, public policy, health, and psychology are currently participating. Many local government institutions have also sent their representatives to our program to strengthen their institutional capacity in MEL and program evaluation. These institutions include High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council BIH, Ministry of Finance BiH, Agency for Employment FBiH, Ministry of Finance of Canton Sarajevo and the Chamber of Commerce of Canton Sarajevo.

Partnering with The Evaluators’ Institute (TEI) of the Claremont Graduate University, MEASURE-BiH offers a series of training courses in M&E and social science research to our Research Fellows. Thirty-five training courses have been organized so far:

#	NAME OF THE TRAINING	LECTURER
1	M&E – Frameworks and Fundamentals	Ann Doucette
2	Econometrics for Program Evaluation	Jeffrey Smith
3	Quantitative Research Methods for Program Evaluation	Ye Zhang and Nermin Oruc
4	Experimental and Non-Experimental Design	Jake Benus
5	Introduction to Stata for Evaluation	Nermin Oruc
6	Applied Measurement for Evaluation	Ann Doucette
7	Survey Methodology and Sampling Design	Jolene Smyth
8	Introduction to Geographic Information Systems	Justin Booth
9	Cost Analysis, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Benefit-Cost Analysis	Clive Belfield
10	Program Evaluation with STATA	Ye Zhang
11	Making Data Actionable	Ann Doucette
12	Outcome/Impact Evaluation Approaches	Ann Doucette
13	Applied Statistics for Evaluation	Emily Tanner-Smith
14	Case Studies in Evaluation	Delwyn Goodrick
15	Qualitative Evaluation Methods	Delwyn Goodrick
16	Policy Analysis, Implementation, and Evaluation	Doreen Cavanugh
17	Effective Writing & Reporting	Ann Doucette
18	Panel Data Modelling in STATA	Ye Zhang
19	Developing a Program Theory of Change	Ann Doucette
20	Complexity and Systems Thinking	Ann Doucette
21	Applied Regression Analysis for Evaluators	Gary T. Henry
22	Using Non-Experimental Designs for Impact Evaluation	Gary T. Henry
23	Sampling: Basic Methods for Probability and Non-Probability Samples	Gary T. Henry
24	Needs Assessment	Ryan Watkins
25	Qualitative Data Analysis	Patricia Rogers
26	Increasing the Success Rates of Academic and Business Research Studies	Joseph Stanley Nadan
27	Applying the Basics of Program Evaluation	Ann Doucette
28	Applied Statistics for Evaluation	Emily Tanner-Smith
29	Cost-Benefit/Cost-Effectiveness Analysis	Clive Belfield
30	Applied Measurement for Evaluation	Ann Doucette
31	Applied Regression Analysis for Evaluators	Gary T. Henry
32	Hierarchical Linear Modelling	Gary T. Henry
33	Sampling: Basic Methods for Probability and Non-Probability Samples	Gary T. Henry
34	Microeconometrics Using STATA	Kalaj Gulati
35	Survey Methodology and Sampling Design	Jolene Smyth

In addition to training courses, through our learning-by-doing capacity building we involve Research Fellows in MEASURE-BiH M&E tasks, including evaluations, assessments, surveys, and other studies.