{"id":2839525,"date":"2023-05-23T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T18:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/?post_type=project&#038;p=2839525"},"modified":"2023-05-24T10:51:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T15:51:35","slug":"communications-training-for-the-ministry-of-environment","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/project\/communications-training-for-the-ministry-of-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Communications training for the Ministry of Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project brief<\/h2>\n<p>OTT Consulting delivered a communications workshop for the Peruvian Ministry of Environment and the public think tanks associated with it.<\/p>\n<p>The project consists of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Developing a course focusing on strategic communications for research, writing for impact, using digital communications and social media, and using data and producing data visualisations.<\/li>\n<li>The data management sections involved using R and R-Suite.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Project dates<\/h2>\n<p>From 10\/2017 to 11\/2017<\/p>\n<h2>The OTT Consulting Team<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=index6f93.html>Enrique Mendizabal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=indexdfb1.html>Erika Perez-Leon<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gonzalo Urbina<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Funder and funding<\/h2>\n<p>Funding is provided by the Ministry of Environment. The total value of the contract was of S\/.21,600 (apron. USD6,545).<\/p>\n<p>This project is managed directly by Enrique Mendizabal and does not include overhead for OTT Consulting.<\/p>\n<h2>Lessons Learned<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This was a good introduction to research communications for many of the participants.<\/li>\n<li>Further work needs to be carried out with each of the centres to ensure that the channels and tools presented can be adopted by them.<\/li>\n<li>Working with policy researchers from public think tanks can deliver higher returns \u2013 considering that they have a direct channel of communication with policymaking authorities.<\/li>\n<li>In terms of the workshop itself, there are lessons relating to its organisation:\n<ul>\n<li>Computers are essential to practice many new communication tools \u2013 a suitable venue is necessary<\/li>\n<li>The right mix of communicators and researchers worked well. They can help each other.<\/li>\n<li>In a city like Lima with heave traffic and poor public transport, a two day residential course might be more effective than 4 or 5 sessions of 4 hours each over a few evenings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project brief OTT Consulting delivered a communications workshop for the Peruvian Ministry of Environment and the public think tanks associated with it. The project consists of: Developing a course focusing on strategic communications for research, writing for impact, using digital communications and social media, and using data and producing data visualisations. The data management sections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-2839525","project","type-project","status-publish","hentry","people-enrique-mendizabal","people-gonzalo-urbina"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/2839525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/2839525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}