Course description
Most important and robust policies must be written with ultimate demonstrated evidence. This Rcademy course is designed and prepared to help those within NGOs, governmental agencies, and the private sector to plan, design, and implement improved and meaningful policies that will improve the lives of others. The course will also allow you to make improved decisions with a better decision-making process.
Why take an effective public policies course?
The course is focused on helping the participants solve real-world problems faced in their policy structure, projects, and programmes. The course will give you the relevant and valid skills required to solve real-life issues with efficient planning. There will be different stages of policymaking, from the initial design stage to implementation, evaluation, and monitoring. The effective public policies training course will focus on important population vs growth areas that direly affect a country’s economy or development, qualitative methods, economic performance indicators, systematic reviews, public consultations, and experimental evidence. The training course is highly practical and will include guidance on effectively creating, designing and implementing public policies.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who Should Attend?
The Developing Effective Public POlciies Evidence-based Policy Making Training Course by Rcademy is ideal for:
- State-owned company executives
- Officials from government agencies
- Civil servants
- Aspiring government leaders
- Officials from public bodies and committees
- Parliamentarians
- Non-executive government managers
- Supervisory officials
- Senior government officials
- Human resources managers
- Professionals involved in planning and policies creation
Outcome / Qualification etc.
The main objectives of The Developing Effective Public POlciies Evidence-based Policy Making Training Course by Rcademy are to enable participants to:
- Manage stakeholders effectively
- Understand the importance of human rights, accountability, and transparency
- Develop methods to evaluate the impact and success of policies
- Determine global trends and policy developments in service delivery
- Manage public offices effectively
- Understand the ethical requirements of public officers
- Understand the policies that protect and foster better environmental development
- Determine the correct and effective plan for public policies development according to the existing legislation
- Develop high-impact policies that can influence better and improved public development and service delivery
- Positively impact colleagues with professionalism and better policy development techniques
- Develop policy objectives and strategic direction, and manipulate the intended outcomes
Training Course Content
Module 1: Randomised and causality control trials
- Introduction to Causality and randomised trials
- Defining counterfactuals
- Developing countermeasures
- Fundamentals to problem evaluation
- Regression discontinuity
- Difference-in-differences
- Introduction to the treatment effect
- Understanding the assumptions in difference-in-differences
Module 2: Public policy development
- Reconciling the competing and conflicting interests
- Key issues of public policies
- Assessing the potential impact of public policy
- Judging desired outcomes
- Identifying and evaluating needs
- Defining key public policies
Module 3: Key issues in EBP
- Policy stages and the use of evidence
- Existing evidence methods
- Monitoring and policy appraisal
- Agenda setting
- The Influence of Politics on policy development
Module 4: Stakeholder Management
- Introduction and Definition of Stakeholder
- Engaging the stakeholders
- Presenting grievances to the stakeholders
- Stakeholder mapping
- Public consultation
- Getting ideas from stakeholders
Module 5: Public policy development and Delivery
- Ethics and international standards
- Transparency and developments
- Challenges facing effective policy development and Delivery
- Human rights issues
- What is public policy?
- Introduction to development
- What is evidence-based policymaking?
Module 6: Factors Limiting EBP
- Superficiality and the Effects on Policymakers
- Secrecy and how to handle its controversial issues
- Speed and time pressure
- Spin and political pressure
- Scientific ignorance and its interaction with the public
Module 7: Getting Evidence into Policy
- Increasing the pull for evidence
- Facilitating better evidence use
- Overview and checklists
- Testing policy ideas
- Ensuring key perspectives are included
- Public orientated tools
- Getting better advice and evidence
- Gender impact assessment
- Community engagement how-to guide
- Managing risks to the public
- Regulatory impact assessment
- Improving Standards of qualitative research
- Appraisal and evaluation in governments
- Internation comparisons in the policymaking toolkit
- Guidance Notes on evidence-based policymaking
- Concern assessment tool
Module 9: Principles of evidence-based policymaking
- Building and compiling rigorous evidence – Rigorous evidence about what works – Compiling evidence – Costs and importance – Cost-benefit analysis
- Monitoring program delivery and evaluation measure use – Impact evaluation – Monitoring services – Policy monitoring
- Application and usage of rigorous evidence to improve programmes – Redirecting funds – Scaling what works – Improving existing programmes
- Fostering innovation to test different ideas – Innovation standards, theory, and research – Testing new approaches and determining what works
- Implementing innovation
- Using tested methods and ideas
Module 10: Case Studies and Evaluation
- The home buying and selling policy
- The connexions programme
- The sure start programme
- Many policy pilots
- Public work development and new employment deals
- The educational maintenance allowance
- Public policies for community development and evidence-based programmes
- Reviewing examples of evidence-based policymaking from various countries
- Commissioning and evaluating analytical services
- Developing reports for evidence-based policies and public policies
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