Our Activities

Our Activities

Advocacy

URC develops policy-based solutions to address the root causes of problems for sustainable and enduring change in health, nutrition, population, education, and environmental sectors. URC provides policy advocacy services to establish new policies, improve existing ones or challenge the development of policies that creates a difficulty or an injustice for specific groups in society, particularly more vulnerable or disadvantaged groups.

Training

Training URC offers hands-on training on various aspects of research regarding health, population, food and nutrition, education, environment, disaster management, poverty and social security, insurance and risk management, water, sanitation & hygiene, ethics and governance issues. The specific areas of training include the following:

  • Research Methodology
  • Research Proposal Writing
  • Development of Data Collection Instruments
  • Data Collection and Field Administration
  • Data Analysis and Result Interpretation
  • Report Writing
  • Article Writing and Publication
  • Statistical Tools
  • Epidemiology
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Important Health Economic Issues
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA)
  • Cost-Utility Analysis (CUA)
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)
  • Project Appraisal
  • Impact Assessment
  • Hospital Management
  • Capacity Development
  • Leadership
  • Health Technology Assessment
  • Insurance premium calculation and benefit package design
  • Statistical Software (e.g., Stata, R, Python)