Evidence and data literacy
Find official statistics, check source quality and document what a figure can support. Quantitative analysis in SPSS or Stata is available on request.
Training for organisations
Private training in AI governance, evidence and policy. Your team works through practical exercises tailored to the decisions and documents it handles at work.
Private cohortsExamples and exercises tailored to your team
Live deliveryOnline or in person in Lahore
Written proposalScope, schedule and fixed fee agreed upfront
Featured course
AI Governance in Pakistan
Help your team identify where it uses AI, assess the risks and decide who is responsible for reviewing and approving its use.
Work through an AI inventory, an internal policy and an implementation roadmap using examples from your organisation.
Custom workshops
Commission a workshop around a specific task your team needs to handle.
Policy and research writing
Turn evidence into a policy brief, executive summary or research report. Exercises can also focus on academic writing and publishing.
Monitoring, evaluation and reporting
Choose a workshop on evaluation foundations or ESG reporting, including material topics and the data your team needs to collect.
How to commission training
Tell us what your team needs
Share the skills your team needs to build, the group size, preferred dates and delivery format. We respond within two business days.
Agree the scope and fee
After a free scoping call, we send a written proposal with the learning objectives, delivery plan and fixed fee.
Run the programme
We agree the examples and exercises before delivery. Participants who complete a PIVRA course receive a verifiable certificate.
Learn from researchers and practitioners
PIVRA researchers and specialist instructors lead the training. See how PIVRA applies research and policy writing in its published work.
The Unequal Future 
Food Insecurity, Socioeconomic Inequality and Sustainable Development in Pakistan Frequently asked questions
For individual enrolment, explore our open certificate courses.
Who delivers the training?
PIVRA's researchers, and specialist instructors from our Expert Network chosen for each topic: academics, practitioners and professionals with direct experience of the subject.
Do participants get a certificate?
Yes. Every participant who completes a PIVRA course receives a certificate with a unique number and QR code that anyone can check at pivra.org/verify.
Can the programme be customised?
Yes. We agree the topics, level, examples and schedule with you, and can build exercises around your own data or documents.
Online or in person?
Both. We deliver online anywhere and in person in Lahore. For other cities we can travel to you, and travel is shown separately in the proposal.
How many participants?
Cohorts of up to 25 work best for the exercises. Larger groups can be accommodated with additional facilitators.
Plan training for your team
Tell us what you want your team to be able to do after the training. We’ll use that to shape the proposal.