Essential Policy Skills - Training Series 2012

  • 13-16 Aug 2012
  • Novotel Singapore Clarke Quay

Description

Essential Policy Skills - Training Series 2012.

Topics
  • Managing policy projects
    • Membership selection
    • The logic of teamwork
    • Assigning tasks and clarifying process steps
    • Clarifying team goals and aligning incentives
    • The planning process
    • Elements of team communication
    • Setting Milestones
    • Creating a Task List or Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
    • Assigning people to tasks
    • Estimating task duration
    • Compiling the baseline project plan
    • Project budgeting
    • The virtues of doing things fast
    • Improving task duration estimates
    • Or network diagram
    • Creating a Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) chart
    • Using project management to integrate the stages of policy development
    • Connecting policy development to project management
    • Assessing tasks, activities and work requirements
    • How to work effectively with others to promote sound policy solutions
    • Managing multiple projects
    • Allocating resources appropriately and in a timely manner
    • Ways to shorten the overall duration of a project
    • Identifying the critical path of the project
    • Resource levelling
  • Effective Policy Analysis and Development
    • Key relations of the policy officer / analyst
    • The role of policy analysis in society and challenges that impede effective policy analysis
    • The relative strengths and weaknesses of individual versus collective decision-making
    • Modelling individual choice and market processes
    • Thinking in terms of efficiency, equity, and administrative simplicity
    • Reviewing things governments can do
    • Comprehensive problem and solution analysis
    • Comparing policy instruments and developing outcomes matrices
    • Benefit-cost analysis
    • Comparative institutional analysis
    • Environmental and social impact assessment
    • Program evaluation
    • Gender and race analysis

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Event Categories

Business: Finance, Management
Government & Global Issues: Economy, Law & Regulations
Science: Economics, Law studies

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