Global Online Certificate Course: Demystifying Environment Data for Communication and Impact – CSE
Last date to Apply 26th May 23
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable.
The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival.
The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities.
On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth.
Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications.
“There is drama in numbers, especially when these numbers give you a trend — are things getting better or worse. It is even more powerful when you can use the trend to understand the crisis, the challenge and the opportunity; and take appropriate actions.”
– Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science and Environment
COURSE DATE May 31 to June 14, 2023
COURSE PLATFORM Zoom and Moodle
COURSE DURATION 15 hours
COURSE FEE
Rs 3,500 for Indian participants
US $100 for Global participants
Fees once paid are not returnable/refundable or transferrable
CSE and AAETI will award Certificates of Participation to all those who attend and complete the course.
Data is not just numbers. It is critical for research communication, advocacy and decision-making. Data helps in evidence building and interactives provide effective visual aids to effectively inform our audience.
Data on air pollution, climate change, water, agriculture, urbanisation, and the economy, when put together, paint a larger picture of the situation in terms of sustainability and development.
This demands an essential set of skills for searching, understanding and visualising environmental data. It is time to develop and sharpen skills to bring data to life and use it to communicate for outreach and impact.
So, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), one of South Asia’s leading think tanks on the politics of development, environment and climate change, invites you to join its Global Online Certificate Training, which focuses specifically on: understanding data, analysing it, and visualising it to tell stories to different stakeholders for action.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to analyse the data on these concepts and prepare impactful stories, dashboards and communication collaterals for different stakeholders to trigger action.
What will you learn?
- Data Sourcing: Learn how and where to research for relevant data on environment and sustainability. You will learn to find different data sets, clean, transform and make them ready for analysis using Excel and Microsoft PowerBI.
- Data Analysis and Modelling to make data meaningful: Learn skills required to process data and create relationships between different data sets on environment and development (includes SDGs).
- Data Visualisation: Understand the basic concepts of visualisation and learn to visualise data using Data wrapper, Microsoft PowerBI, and Infogram.
- Data Dashboard: Learn to create interactive dashboards showing relationships between different data sets on the environment and development.
- Report Writing: Develop skills to process, visualise, and integrate environmental data into simple, compelling and informative ‘reports, articles and stories’ for print and web.
Who can attend?
- Professionals, government officials and policymakers
- Academia: Faculty and researchers, and students associated with climate and sustainable development
- Researchers and writers on environment and development
- National and international civil society groups, NGOs, climate activists and advocates
- Industries: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)/CSR officers, Public relations/Communication officers
- Data managers and statisticians interested in improving communication skills
- Anyone else interested in the subject
Course structure
The self-paced online programme will have video lectures, presentations, tutorials, quizzes and assignments. Participants will also get an opportunity to work on an in-depth project of their choice.
The programme will also have three live interactive sessions for meeting the trainers and fellow participants.
The programme has been designed in such a way that it can be completed along with a regular job or study.
The course is broken down into five modules:
- Module 1: Introduction to state of environment, the trends and significance of data for effective communication and informed decision making
- Module 2: Introduction to sustainable development goals (SDGs): 17 SDGs (SDGs)
- Module 3: Finding the right data on environment and development (includes 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs))
- Module 4: Data processing and analysis to make data meaningful
- Module 5: Data visualization and data dashboard
COURSE DIRECTOR
Kiran Pandey
Programme director, Information Management, CSE
Email: kiran@cseindia.org
Phone: +91-9871215338
COURSE COORDINATOR
Susan Chacko
Manager,
Information Management, CSE
Email: susan@cseindia.org
Phone: +91-9958387577
