Section outline

  • SPREP Inform Project 

    Unit One: Environment Data Management

    Online Learning Courses


    Warm Pacific Greetings, Salutations chaleureuses du Pacifique. Welcome to the  SPREP Inform Project Online Learning Courses.


    The project "Building National and Regional Capacity to Implement Multilateral Environmental Agreements by Strengthening Planning and the State of Environmental Assessment and Reporting in the Pacific", referred to as the Inform Project, recognizes the need for this data-driven decision making. The project has established a Pacific island network of national and regional data repositories and reporting tools to support the monitoring, evaluation, and analysis of environmental information, which supports environmental planning, forecasting, and reporting requirements.

    The Inform Project online courses introduces professionals to the importance of environmental data portals in the Pacific context, and how to use national and regional data management portals. Knowledge and understanding are important for driving and bringing about informed decision making. 

    There are two (2) Units/Subdomains :

    1. Environmental Data Management
    2. Environment Reporting (Indicator Reporting Tool)

    Course Outline

    This is Unit One :Environmental Data Management. 

    There are five modules in this unit - each with lecture videos and activity lessons with quizzes. This first Unit will walk you through the regional and national data portals so that you can benefit from the effective utilization of this new platform. You will receive a Certificate of Completion upon the fulfilling all requirements to complete Unit One - which will the allow you to participate in the Unit/Subdomain Two: Environment Reporting.


      

     


    At the end of this unit, you will be able to:

    • Understand environment data portals - Pacific Environment Portal and Pacific Data Ecosystem
    • Understand the structure of data portals, license levels for sharing data and metadata - creating and uploading datasets
    • Developing data stories and sharing across social media portals
    • Understand the importance of good data management and practices
    • Better understand the data approval process and the importance of having a data sharing protocol

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      What is the Inform Project Page
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      Q&A for Administrative Matters Forum
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      Instructions

      In each of the five learning modules, you are provided with a lecture video, a PowerPoint slides of the video and an Activity Lesson. In order to complete each each learning module, you will have to read through the Activity Lesson and complete the various quizzes. You will not be able to open the next module activity lesson, unless you have completed the previous module. 

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      To complete the course, you will need to attend (mandatory country) zoom meeting, as well as the feedback section.

      In order to complete the course you will have to meet the 4 following requirements:
      • Complete all five learning modules' Activity Lessons
      • Post at least one input in each of the threads in the Talanoa-Discussion Forum
      • Join a virtual zoom sessions with your course facilitators
      • Complete and submit the course evaluation 


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      Mark as done