7th Regional JODI Training Workshop for Middle East and North Africa
8-10 October 2012 | Rabat, Morocco

The 7th Regional JODI Training Workshop was held from the 8th - 10th of October 2012 in Rabat, Morocco. The Workshop was hosted by the Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment of the Kingdom of Morocco with the support of the JODI partners: APEC, Eurostat, IEA, IEF, OPEC, OLADE, and UNSD.
With the aim of increasing JODI data quality, the Workshop was delivered to 41 participants from 11 countries in charge of hydrocarbon data collection at national administrations that participate in JODI. The Workshop covered the following themes: JODI background, status and objectives, the extended JODI Questionnaire, data user perspectives (JODI user survey), data collection, and quality assessment techniques with practical exercises.
Training materials
- Exercise by IEA
- Data quality assessment sheet (IEA version)*
- Data quality assessment sheet (IEF version)
Presentations by JODI partner organisations
- Importance of energy commodity data transparency for the hydrocarbon sector
- The Joint Organisations Data Initiative
- Extended JODI-Oil Questionnaire
- Data Quality Assessment
- Current JODI Data Situations in Middle East and North African Countries
- Hands on exercise using sample data (an "Exercise by IEA" file)
- JODI World Database Data Quality Assessment Files
- Extending JODI to natural gas and challenges for the MENA regions
- Increasing the transparency of energy data
*The presentation "JODI World Database Data Quality Assessment Files" is a guide for this tool.
Previous JODI Training Workshops
- 6th JODI Training Workshop for Latin American Countries
26-28 July 2010 - 5th Regional JODI Training Workshop for Caspian, Central Asia and East European Countries
18-20 November 2009 - 4th Regional JODI Training Workshop for Asia Pacific Countries
10-12 September 2008 - 3rd JODI Training Workshop for Middle Eastern and North African Countries
26 October 2007 - 2nd Regional JODI Training Workshop for Sub-Saharan African Countries
31 January 2007 - JODI Training Workshop for Latin American Countries
14-18 August 2006