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Integrated Data Analytics for Sustaining Peace Boot Camp - Entebbe
The Integrated Data Analytics for Sustaining Peace Boot Camp course provides an opportunity for professionals in peace and security, as well as peacebuilding, to enhance their data analytics skills. The course focuses on advanced techniques in data collection, database design, and dashboard creation. It aims to empower practitioners in peace and security with the tools needed to effectively leverage data for prevention efforts, aligning with the UN New Agenda for Peace, the UN 2.0 agenda, and the Quintet of Change.
In today’s data-driven world, leveraging analytics for informed decision-making is essential for sustainable peace. The Integrated Data Analytics for Sustaining Peace Boot Camp is designed to equip UN staff and peacebuilding practitioners with the skills and tools needed to effectively analyze, visualize, and interpret data for actionable insights.
Aligned with the Secretary-General’s Data Strategy and the UN's commitment to innovation under the UN 2.0 agenda and Quintet of Change, this course offers a comprehensive approach to data analytics for peacekeeping and peacebuilding. Participants will explore key concepts such as data visualization, dashboarding, trends analysis, and ethical data management. By combining technical skills with strategic foresight, the boot camp empowers participants to transform complex datasets into compelling narratives and evidence-based solutions that support integrated decision-making for sustaining peace.
This hands-on programme is tailored for professionals in the peace and security pillar, offering practical tools like Excel PivotTables, Power BI dashboards, and advanced techniques for identifying trends and patterns. It also addresses critical challenges such as ethical considerations in data management, ensuring participants are equipped to navigate the complexities of modern peacebuilding with confidence
The course will focus on enhancing the ability of UN staff members working in the field of peace and security to:
- Understand Integrated Data Analytics: Develop the ability to analyze data to answer key questions such as “What happened?”, “What might happen next?”, and “How should we respond?”
- Familiarize with UN Data Analytics Tools and Initiatives: Gain insights into the tools and systems used within the UN for sustaining peace, including what data they capture and how they are applied in peacebuilding efforts.
- Explore Data through Spreadsheets: Build foundational skills in working with spreadsheets (e.g., Excel) to organize, analyze, and interpret data effectively.
- Master Data Visualization Techniques: Learn to create visualizations using tools like Excel PivotTables, PivotCharts, and Power BI for better communication of insights.
- Tell Stories with Data: Transform complex datasets into clear, impactful narratives that support decision-making and advocacy for sustaining peace.
- Understand Ethical Data Management: Engage in discussions on critical issues such as data privacy, protection, and ethical considerations in managing data for peacebuilding.
The course will be facilitated in line with adult-learning best practices. It will include plenary discussions, scenario building exercises in breakout group sessions, with emphasis placed on frank and interactive exchanges in a safe and inclusive environment to foster creativity, innovation and problem solving.
The course has five modules.
MODULE 1. Data analytics for sustaining peace in the UN System
This module will provide an overview of current tools and technologies available for peacebuilding and integrated data analytics within the United Nations and among other partners. The module will also introduce some of the challenges and opportunities with those technologies.
MODULE 2. Introduction to storytelling, spreadsheets and visualization
This module introduces participants to data exploration using spreadsheets, with a focus on practical techniques for understanding and visualizing data. Participants will learn the basics of working with Excel, including creating PivotTables and PivotCharts, through examples drawn from real-world peacebuilding practices. The session aims to equip participants with foundational skills for exploring and analyzing data effectively.
MODULE 3. Exploring Data using Dashboarding Tools
The goal of this module is to build on the previous one and introduce participants to the principles of data visualization and the steps for creating dashboards using PowerBi. Participants will also be guided on the principles of good visualizations, types of visualizations and their suitability for presenting different types of data using the UN standards on visualizing data. The module will also provide an overview on how to use data visualization to build compelling stories for sustaining peace.
MODULE 4. Trends Analysis, Strategic Foresight and Presentations
The goal of this module is to dive into the multiple visuals developed in the dashboarding platform to identify patterns and trends in the data. Participants will be taken through ways to link and query different data sets to understand patterns such as correlation and/or causality. This module will also have a presentation session where participants will present to each other interesting stories in their data sets and showcase their peacebuilding analysis.
MODULE 5. Technology and ethical challenges with data management
This module will build on some of the issues identified during the first module and cover other pre-identified challenges/issues with regards to data management (data privacy, ethics, protection of data subjects etc.).
Junior to mid-level staff working in peace and security, and peacebuilding.
$2,000
