Courses for Researchers and Extension Personnel

Ant Studies for Researchers and Students

The course is designed to introduce the methods, techniques, and applications of ant studies (myrmecology) to students, faculty, and researchers of biology, ecology, biodiversity and animal behavior.  Lectures, references, field collection and laboratory work will impart the necessary skills to the participants.  At the end of the course, the participants are expected to be familiar with the collecting techniques, subfamilies of ants and some of the common genera, be able to mount and preserve ant specimens, be able to identify ants to genus, and be able to design, execute, and analyze research projects that include ants.

• Schedule and duration: 5 days (exact date to be announced)
• Venue: Museum of Natural History (if available)
• Course fee: P4,000 (not including travel, food and accommodation)
• Other requirements: Stereomicroscopes, handouts, printed specimen labels, lab supplies
• Course coordinator: Florante Cruz/James Alvarez
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• Contact number: (049) 536-3669
• Minimum of 5 participants and maximum of 10

Data Management and Statistical Analyses Using SAS

The advent of big data opened various opportunities for various fields to grow business, enhance government, and develop one’s personal lifestyle. Along with these opportunities, new statistical methods and technology require the ability to interpret behaviours of data which is useful for decision-making. Hence, the increasing demand for professionals with knowledge on data management and analysis is evident through the years. As a tool to handle big data, statistical packages or softwares are powerful instruments to bridge professionals to these wide opportunities.

SAS, a software which offers both simple and sophisticated data management and analysis, enables individuals to make new discoveries. This package can mine, alter, manage, and retrieve data from a variety of sources and then perform various statistical analyses. This training course is for those who need to learn data manipulation and simple analysis techniques using SAS through creating, accessing, transforming, describing, analyzing, and summarizing data sets. It is designed for a five-day lecture of concepts with hands-on laboratory sessions.

Benefits to Participants:
Learn the basic and advanced SAS procedures for doing data management and be able to use SAS for data analysis

Purpose:
At the end of the course, the participants are expected to:

1. be familiar with SAS software;
2. create data sets using different input styles;
3. manage data sets using different SAS statements;
4. produce summary reports and graphs using SAS; and
5. utilize different statistical analyses using SAS procedures.

Course Coverage

• Introduction to SAS
• Creating SAS Data Sets and Input Styles
• Data Management: Reading External Data File; Data Set Options; Conditional Statements and Recoding Variables; Looping Statements; Merging and Updating Data Sets
• Review on Basic Concepts in Statistics
• Summary Reports and Graphs
• Statistical Analysis with SAS

• Training Output: Data Management and Statistical Output using SAS
• Training Date and Duration: Five working days in June to July 2017
• Venue: PS C-312, Physical Science Building, UP Los Banos
• Coordinator: Consorcia E. Reaño, Ph.D. (Director, Institute of Statistics)
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• Tel. No.: (049) 536-2381
• Minimum of participants required: 30

Enhancing Adaptive Capacity of Agricultural Systems to Climate Change

The training course aims to increase the capacity of agricultural technicians and other development workers in establishing climate smart agricultural villages. Specifically, the training course aims to: a) discuss what is climate change and global trend in the climate; b) explain the causes of climate change and how it affects agriculture; c) discuss the process of conducting vulnerability assessment using VAST-Agro Tool; and d) design climate-proofing recommendations at the farm and community levels.

• Date duration and time schedule: to be arranged
• Venue, course fee and other requirements: to be arranged
• Coordinator: Ms. Marianne R. de Luna
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• Telephone/Telefax: (049) 536-3229; 536-2459
• Minimum number of participants required: 10

Information Technology for Administrative Personnel

The training aims to equip the participants with skills in the freely available Information Technology tools in order to increase their productivity. Specifically, it aims to teach the participants how to (1) manage data through online and offline tools; (2) use online tools for document collaboration; (3) use content management systems for creating websites; (4) present data through an online presentation tool; and (5) create simple websites and wikis. The training will be in the form of lectures and hands-on exercises. The participants will be given an exercise (either by group or individually) on each of the topic in the training module. At the end of the training, the participants are expected to present their outputs and their outputs will be critiqued by the resource persons themselves.

Schedule:
June 19 - June 23, 2017
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Venue:
Training Laboratory, Institute of Computer Science, CAS, UPLB

Course Fee:
P3,000 per participant

Course coordinator:
Katrina Joy M. Abriol-Santos
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(049) 536-2313/2302

Minimum number of participants:
20 persons

Mainstreaming gender and development (GAD) for a gender responsive research, extension and instruction programs and projects

The passage of Magna Carta of Women (RA 9710) and its subsequent Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) instructed all government agencies, including state universities, colleges and educational/ academic institutions, to mainstream GAD in their policies, people, plans, programs, activities (PPAs), and enabling mechanisms as entry points to make the agencies gender responsive.

More, these agencies must build the capacities of its people, particularly the GAD Focal Point System (GFPS) to lead in gender mainstreaming efforts within the agency. Strategies to mainstream GAD within an organization through capacity building may include the following:

1. Gender Sensitivity and Understanding Basic GAD Concepts
2. Identifying Gender Issues through Gender Analysis
3. GAD Budget Attribution/ Gender Analysis using Harmonized GAD Guidelines (HGDG)
4. Gender Analysis using Gender Mainstreaming Evaluation Framework (GMEF)
5. GAD Planning and Budgeting and Preparation of GAD Accomplishment Report
6. Agency GAD Framework/ Agenda Preparation
7. Gender Audit and GAD Monitoring and Evaluation

The proposed training program will provide knowledge on basic GAD concepts relevant in mainstreaming gender in research, extension and instruction. It will provide awareness and appreciation on how to be gender sensitive in the workplace and at home.

Duration: Depending on the need of the agency, the training can be packaged into a one gender sensitivity training (GST), two (GST ++), or three days or more training to include GST++, gender analysis for GAD planning and budgeting ( use of Harmonized GAD Guidelines and Gender Mainstreaming Evaluation Framework, and other gender analysis tools relevant for project design and implementation), and in preparing agency GAD plan and budget

Venue, course fee, and other requirements:Based on requesting party; rate is government rate based on Magna Carta for Science Workers and DBM Budget Circular 2007-01 to be charged to agency GAD Budget

Course coordinator:DR. BLESSHE L. QUERIJERO, (Asst. Professor 6, IBS-UPLB, Certified Member of the Philippine Commission on Women National GAD Resource Pool (Batch 1) and former DOST-wide GAD Mainstreaming Coordinator (2007-2013); project leader of the DOST-PCW-CIDA Gender Responsive Economic Action for the Transformation (GREAT) Women Project entitled Assessment on the gender responsive of DOST Technology Transfer Technologies and Technology Transfer Programs )

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Contact number:0918-945-6020

Minimum number of participants:

• For GST – 50++ (gender awareness and appreciation of basic GAD concepts relevant to gender mainstreaming in government agencies)
• For GST ++ (with introduction to gender analysis and GAD planning: designed for members of the GAD Focal Point System) : +30 pax
• For GST++ with skills training (workshop) in HGDG and GMEF and GAD Planning and Budgeting: +30 pax

Ornamental Crops Production

Preparation of Research Output for Publication

This course aims to teach practitioners convert their output into publishable forms for dissemination.  There are many activities and outputs delivered being in an agricultural system, either crops, livestock, pest and disease management, and their integration.  There is a need to put thee observations, impressions, activities into a medium to reach specific stakeholders for proper action, either adoption, policy-making or further enhancement.

• July 6-10, 2015
• Venue: ASC
• P10,000 per person
• Min. no. of participants: 10
• Trainor: Dr. Ofelio K. Bautista
• Coordinator: Associate Professor Nelita M. Lalican
• Tel no. (049) 536-3229
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Specialized Training Course on Dairy and Beef Cattle Production and Management

This training course is sponsored by ATI-DA for the recipients of the 2018 Young Filipino Farmers Training Program in Japan. It is part of the pre-orientation program for the participants to gain knowledge and basic principles in cattle production management, nutrition, breeding, health, feeding, pasture establishment and milking & milking procedure.

• Date: February 12-15, 2018
• Venue: DTRI
• Course Fee: by institutional arrangement
• Course Coordinator: Ms. Myrna S. Galang
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• Contact number: (049) 536-3744
• Minimum number of participants: 19

Training of Agricultural Extension Workers in Using Climate Decision Support Tools in Agriculture

The training aims to strengthen capacity of agricultural extension workers (AEWs) to further appreciate and apply climate decision support tools to reduce risks in agriculture. Specifically, the participants will be exposed to climate forecasting and analysis, trained to input, process and analyze data using the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DWWAT) Model.

• Duration: Three days (by arrangement)
• Fee: P 7,500 (inclusive of food and accommodation)
• Coordinator: Dr. Merlyne M. Paunlagui
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• Contact number: (049) 536 3455
• Minimum number of participants required: 25

Training on Financial Analysis of Technologies in Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources

The acceptability and adoption of new technologies or enterprises developed by researchers largely depends on its capital requirement, profitability and market potential. Potential investors are more interested in getting information on the capital requirement of the new technology or proposed new enterprise, its profitability and market potential rather than in just knowing that the technology is yield-increasing. Profitability analysis is, therefore, needed before researchers and extension workers can give their final recommendations on new farm technologies or enterprises to farmers and other potential investors.

This training course aims to equip research personnel of various academic and research institutions with skills in conducting profitability/financial viability analysis including hands-on computer applications of various analytical tools used in evaluating the profitability/financial viability of new production and processing technologies as well as enterprises. The topics include cost and returns analysis, break-even analysis, partial budgeting, break-even budgeting and financial cash flow analysis.

• Date: July 9-13, 2018
• Venue: College of Economics and Management, UPLB
• Course fee: PhP 10,000
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• Contact number: (049) 536 3292)
• Minimum number of participants: 20

Training-Workshop on R and D Proposal Preparation

Aims to equip participants with basic skills in R&D proposal preparation to include identification, formulation and prioritization of researchable areas, developing conceptual framework and research design, searching and organizing literature and information resources, and packaging research proposals.

• By arrangement (5 days)
• Min. no. of participants: 10
• Coordinator: Dr. Jaine C. Reyes
• Telefax: (049) 536-0319
• Tel no. (049) 536-0407
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Training/Workshop on Impact Assessment of R&D Programs/Projects

Impact assessment measures the social, economic and environmental changes and impacts, that arise from R&D projects. It provides information on returns from R&D investments and leads to improved planning and policy decisions for future R&D work. Subjecting the completed R&D programs/projects to impact assessment studies is imperative to evaluate the extent to program/project objectives are achieved. At the end of the training/workshop, the participants could be involved in the implementation of impact assessment of R&D and technology commercialization programs/projects.

The training/workshop aims to build the capacity of researchers to conduct impact assessment studies. Specifically, the training/workshop aims: (1) to equip the participants with the knowledge and understanding of the concept, principles, approaches and analytical tools on impact assessment of R&D programs/projects; and (2) To improve the proficiency of participants in applying various quantitative and qualitative methods for impact evaluation.

• Date: June 11-15, 2018
• Venue: College of Economics and Management, UPLB
• Course Fee: PhP 10,000/pax
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• (049) 536 3292
• Minimum number of participants: 20