Overview
Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
The Arab region is witnessing numerous types of crises and disasters,
many of which are of cross-boundary nature, thus requiring increased regional
cooperation. In addition, strengthening the institutional capability to respond
to crises and conflicts is critical to avoid vulnerability to conflict and
natural disasters. As a response to this, the League of Arab States (LAS)
worked with the European Union (EU) through a 2010 project titled
“Strengthening Crisis Response Capacities of the League of Arab States”. By mid-2014,
the first phase of the project was reviewed and seen as having yielded
important progress. Key achievements included the creation of a Crisis
Department at LAS with the necessary media monitoring as well as skills
development among LAS Secretariat staff. LAS, the EU and UNDP recently agreed
on a second phase of the project, which aims to further strengthen the
capability of the LAS Secretariat and its Member States to provide early
warning and effective responses to impending regional crises, conflicts and
post-conflict situations.
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Contact
Judy SbaytiJunior Programme Management & Operations Officer
Program Support Unit
United Nations Development Programme
RBAS - Regional Programme Division
Venue
Semiramis InterContinental Hotel
Resource Guide
Other Information
Details
Research and Monitoring Skills: Session I Agenda
Day
1: Identifying and Managing Requirements I
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09:30 – 10:00
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Introductions
• Course aims and objectives
• Strategic and operational considerations
• Legal and ethical challenges and constraints
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10:00 – 11:00
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Identifying collection requirements
• The Key Intelligence Topics (KITs) process
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11:00 – 11:30
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Coffee Break
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11:00 – 13:00
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Strategic / operational / support needs
• The information needs continuum
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13:00 – 13:30
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Coffee Break
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14:00 – 16:00
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Stakeholder requirements
• Understanding and working with customers
• Customer Empathy Maps
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16:00
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Q&A and close
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Day 2: Identifying and Managing Requirements II
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09:30 – 11:00
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Scanning for future issues and hotspots
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11:00 – 11:30
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• Coffee Break
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11:00 – 13:00
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Scanning for future issues and hotspots
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13:00 – 13:30
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Coffee Break
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14:00 – 16:00
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Developing a keyword index
• Tactical collection planning
• Managing requests for information
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16:00
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Q&A and close
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09:30 – 11:00
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Prepping your browser
• Working with browser extensions
• Establishing a web aggregator
• Identifying RSS / XML feeds
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11:00 – 11:30
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Coffee Break
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11:00 – 13:00
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• Automating web monitoring / data collection
o News sources
o Web sources
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13:00 – 13:30
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Coffee Break
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14:00 – 16:00
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Automating web monitoring / data collection
o Blogs
o Social media sources (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
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16:00
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Q&A and close
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Day 4: Online Research Skills
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09:30 – 11:00
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Search strategies
• Major search engines
• Working with search operators
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11:00 – 11:30
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Coffee Break
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11:00 – 13:00
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Scraping and sharing your search results
• Alternative / niche search engines
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13:00 – 13:30
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Coffee Break
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14:00 – 16:00
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Working with the Deep Web
• Building a customized search engine
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16:00
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Q&A and close
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09:30 – 11:00
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Working with alert tools
• Task automation tools
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11:00 – 11:30
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Coffee Break
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11:00 – 13:00
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Filtering, mixing and processing data feeds
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13:00 – 13:30
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Coffee Break
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14:00 – 16:00
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Validating your search results
• Organising data for analysis
• Working with data collation tables
• The pre-analysis checklist
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16:00
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Q&A and close
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Note: This schedule is approximate and reflects the average pace with which we deliver a five-day course. The speed of delivery, and the amount of time allocated to each module will
depend on number of people in the room and their level of experience.
List of Event's Documents
REGISTRATION FORM / استمارة التسجيل
General Information / معلومات عامة
Passport Details / جواز السفر
Address / العنـوان