Institute of Disaster Risk Management & Food Security Studies
DHS CAPACITY BUILDING-TRAINING
The DHS data analysis training workshop was conducted from April 11-15/2019. The first day
was considered as awareness creation workshop. More than forty two participants including the
director were attend for the first day workshop. The actual training participants were forty. Even
if we gave emphasis for gender during our invitation the female participants were limited to only
seven. The budget source of the training was the institute and project of the institute. Day one of
the training session was started after opening speech by the Director. The training venue was at
Poly campus of BahirDar University.
The training participants were academic staff members and postgraduate students from BahirDar
University, researchers from Amhara Region Public Health Institute, and Amhara Research
Institute. The training participants were from diverse discipline; Public health, economics,
geography and population, nutrition, rural development and agricultural extension, statistics,
climate change and development, midwifery, disaster risk management and sustainable
development, and biomedical science.
More than eleven research titles were extracted from the DHS report by the trainees and it was
considered as the training outcome. Even if it was challenging to fulfill the logistics and conduct
such a compressive training for voluminous number of trainees, we did it due to the high
willingness and support of our director and focal person of the institute’s project titled Peri-Peri
U. It was time of deadline to submit our working paper to the DHS programme. However, the
team took a double responsibility at a time and accomplished successfully. The effort of our team
to facilitate all the training logistics from inviting participants, purchasing stationery, fulfilling
the accommodation, arranging training hall to making real the training were highly
appreciated. The team also appreciate Mr.Gedefaw for accepting our invitation with his tight
program in doing his PhD research and valuable contribution during merge DHS dataset session
and adding other tips for our trainees.