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Background and Context\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Established in 1988, the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) has grown to be a premier capacity-building institution for advancing research and graduate training to inform African economic policies. The consortium\u2019s mandate and strategic mission are based on the belief that sustained development in Sub-Saharan Africa requires well-trained, locally-based professional economists. A highly integrated knowledge organization spanning research, training, and policy outreach, AERC is now a vast network of universities, policymakers, researchers, educators, and international resource persons.<\/p>\n

The Call for African Researchers\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

AERC is organizing a technical workshop for researchers from underrepresented groups of African countries. The workshop aims to enhance the research methods, research proposal writing, and presentation skills of all researchers and from fragile, post-conflict, and marginalized Africa, with priority given to women participants. The workshop will take place from\u00a016- 27 September 2024\u00a0<\/b>in\u00a0Nairobi, Kenya<\/b>. The goal is to build the capacity of researchers and fragile and post-conflict state researchers and analysts to conduct rigorous and policy-relevant research to support informed policymaking in these countries. The technical workshop is expected to contribute significantly to attaining the goal by building and strengthening the research, academic writing, and presentation skills of women and other researchers from fragile and post-conflict states of Africa.<\/p>\n

The course will cover several topics on research methods, including the following: identifying a research topic, asking research questions that focus on African priorities, the art of conducting a critical literature review, data management, data analysis, anchoring the analysis in theory, research paper\/proposal writing, and presentation skills. Several practical exercises on materials covered and practical issues related to the course will be conducted. Participants will also be introduced to some econometric software for their use.<\/p>\n

Eligibility and Submission of Expression of Interest<\/b><\/p>\n

To be eligible, one must satisfy the following criteria:<\/p>\n

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  1. At least a recent PhD Degree in Economics and its sub-disciplines (Development Economics\/Studies, Agricultural Economics, \u2026etc)<\/li>\n
  2. Be a national of an African country.<\/li>\n
  3. Preference will be given to women, fragile and post-conflict states, and marginalized researchers.<\/li>\n
  4. Provide a personal statement (of 500-1000 words) describing why they would like to take part in the research methods training; indicate whether they have ever written a research report or research paper and been involved in research data collection; Indicate your level of experience of analyzing data using software (e.g., STATA, EViews, R, Python or any other statistical\/econometric software); and the skills you expect to get at the end of the technical workshop.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Expressions of Interest, including the applicant\u2019s curriculum vitae (CV) shall be addressed to the AERC Director of Research and submitted on or before\u00a016 August 2024<\/b>\u00a0by email to\u00a0research@aercafrica.org<\/b><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 and\u00a0 copy\u00a0<\/b>collaborative.research@aercafrica.org<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

    \u00a0Project Timelines<\/b><\/p>\n

    The breakdown of the timeline is as follows:<\/p>\n