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Public Policies Reforms
Nowadays, and at the international level, the design of public policies is crucial for the successful implementation of development strategies. Public policies are essential when a local or national political authority aspires to modify the cultural, social, or economic environment of social actors, through a coordinated action program. Most of the structural reforms of the economic system, social welfare, education, security, and defense are carried out through the process of a public policy. Therefore, it is necessary to know how a public policy is promoted, advertised, supported, adopted, and implemented. WSDC provides various training programs which allow decision-makers and people interested in public policy making to identify the key issues related to policy design, to understand the crucial processes, and to design concise and efficient reforms.
Good governance is a concept that is often used by international organizations in order to justify the structural reforms of administrations and state or infra-state organizations.
What you’ll learn
- The issue of choosing the optimal alternative in a public policy
- The issue of corruption and how we should mobilize a multidimensional approach
- The practical cases and the mechanisms, institutions can develop in order to implement good governance
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h
Subject: Public Policies
Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Platforms: Physical/Online
Topic(s): N/AThis program is mainly concerned with the issue of development assistance.
What you’ll learn
- Strategies that allow national or local institutions and private actors to take advantage of the development assistance programs offered by international organizations and agencies
- The way in which local/national actors can negotiate with the foreign institutions/agencies and maintain their values and goals
- The evaluation and quantification of the success of a development policy
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Public Policies Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/AEconomic policies are the set of actions aiming at influencing or controlling the behavior of the economy. The main aim of this program is to teach students how to reframe economic policies around sustainability.
What you’ll learn
- The economic doctrines and theories that have influenced the governments in defining and implementing their economic development policies
- “Sustainable Development” that is now the title of economic policies, with objectives concerning the society and its environment with a particular interest for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals elaborated by the United Nations
- The concept of Sustainable Development and its pillars
- Reframing economic policies around sustainability
- Measures to create an inclusive green economy
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Public Policies Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/AThe program is related to the changes introduced by a government – citizen relation that expands through the information technologies, and how these technologies can favorise the efficiency and transparency of public institutions. A training program on E-government is designed to explain the implementation of these changes, the evaluation of their efficiency and the identification of advantages and obstacles.
What you’ll learn
- The main transformations in the organization of governments
- The changes introduced by E-government
- The implementation methods that allow public institutions profit from the features of E-governments
- The identification of advantages and obstacles
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Public Policies Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/AThe countries who accumulate a significant energy rent (Oil and/or Gas rent but not exclusively), accumulate their capital and invest it abroad through sovereign wealth funds. In this way, they can avoid domestic inflation, but they take the risk of losing control of their funds.
What you’ll learn
- The governmental planning for an optimal management of this fund through the international market
- The use of these funds as a tool for economic and political influence all over the world
- Ethical considerations
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Public Policies Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/AA successful planning depends on the ability of the decision-makers to draw a rational outlook on the future perspectives of a system (administration or public organization or economic system).
What you’ll learn
- The mechanism of middle and long range planning
- The integration of a scientific approach in planning to take into consideration the future evolution of the economic and social system
- Alternatives’ evaluation in a decision-making process
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Public Policies Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/AAs a remedy to administrative paralysis and inefficiency, the reform of public administration mobilizes the appropriate resources to introduce structural changes that address the strategic aims determined by a government.
What you’ll learn
- The factors of administrative paralysis and inefficiency
- The conditions and the convenient socio-political for reforms’ implementation
- The main guidelines and strategies of change and reorganization
- The methods of reforms’ implementation and evaluation
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Public Policies Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/ANowadays a broader range of countries and regions are becoming increasingly concerned by regional economic integration which has considerable economic consequences on the domestic, as well as on the industrial and productive network.
What you’ll learn
- The optimization of the effects of a regional integration system and the control of its effects
- The focal points of free trade measures
- Negotiation methods
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Public Policies Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/ANowadays, countries are facing security threats and challenges such as criminality, terrorism and military threats as well as environmental issues.
What you’ll learn
- Security threats’ evaluation
- The identification of the objectives and the tools of a security policy
- Methods and tools to stay updated with the new challenges, such as for instance the cyber threats
- The treatment of the multiple dilemmas which are the results of the security choices (among them the liberty / security dilemma)
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Public Policies Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/AThe reform of higher education aims at increasing the efficiency of higher education systems and allowing them to address the needs of the students, the market and the society as a whole.
What you’ll learn
- The diverse dynamics of higher education systems
- Motivations for higher education reforms and the reforms’ priorities
- The key fields of reform in governance, learning programs, system to students’ relation, research etc.
- The evaluation of the success of reforms
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Public Policies Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/ADue to physical geography as well as to geostrategic factors, the Arab world is nowadays suffering from water resources scarcity and water stress. The aim of this program is to teach the student, the elaboration of relevant strategies for water management.
What you’ll learn
- The geostrategic balance of force between regional powers
- The legal debate over the rights and duties in water management
- The economic analysis of the consequences on the downstream countries
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Public Policies Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/AThe relationship between a public administration and the citizens is primarily ruled by an asymmetry disclosing the state’s monopoly over power and coercion. This justifies the protection of fundamental rights of the citizen.
What you’ll learn
- The difference between the administrative arbitrary and an administration framed by protective rules
- The acknowledgment and implementation of human rights to ensure a good relation between the public administration and the other stakeholders
- The implementation methods of “a protection” and the identification and formulation of rights
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Public Policies Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/A