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3. Conduct of the Capability Training
Each capability-training begins with levelling of training expectations on
the course, resource speaker, and co-participants. A pre-test follows to
determine the level of knowledge of the participants on the course coverage.
It is a 25 item multiple-choice type of exam with four possible answers. No
participant’s name appears on the exam paper but codes are used instead, for
post-test matching purposes.
Each participant has a desktop or a laptop for his/her own
referencing/viewing of the lecture notes and workshop activities. There is also
provision of flash drives containing pdf copies of all the lectures. Training
modes are lecture, discussion, workshop, presentation, and commenting on.
For each main topic, participants work on exercises or workshops. There are
hands-on exercises using MS Excel in the computation of summary measures
and construction of charts. For the workshops, the grouping of the
participants is according to offices/agencies or by sector. Each group need to
identify a gender issue, identify data sources and indicators, compute for some
summary measures, construct charts, and finally crafting a possible policy
addressing the gender issue.
The final part of the training is the workshop presentation of each group.
The resource person and another expert comment on the output after each
presentation.

4. Training Evaluation and Next Steps
The training ends with a post-test and an evaluation of the training course,
resource persons, facilities, and food. Each participant receives a certificate of
completion if he or she has attended 90% of the total training hours.
Otherwise, only a certificate of attendance is received.
The PSRTI had conducted three capacity building on Statistics for Gender
and Sustainable Development in 2017, and another one for 2018. A total of
80 participants attended these trainings, with 30 men and 50 women. The
agencies and sectors they represent are diverse, ranging from government
agencies, academe, private sector, local government units, and non-
government organizations. The level of satisfaction in the training program,
resource person, and over-all conduct of each capacity-building course has a
rating ranging from satisfactory to very satisfactory. There were
recommendations on lengthening the time allocation for workshops as most
participants find the exchange of opinions and ideas relevant to their own
situations and challenges they face in terms of gender discrimination and
inequalities.
The results of test scores on the pre-test and post-test were significant at
0.05 level of significance. The post-test scores were relatively higher than the

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