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Development Policy Analysis i & II
This development policy analysis course forms the back bone of the policy EPD track and aims at:
- Giving students critical insight into the politics and strategies involved in the increasingly complex and contested arena of development policy making.
- Providing basic fluency with key development policy issues and debates
- Enhancing the practical skills necessary for writing clear and powerful policy papers and giving persuasive and organized presentations
- Assisting students to actually use the policy papers they write as advocacy tools through public presentation and skillful dissemination, including publication.
Students are strongly encouraged to bring policy issues that engage them to class and draw on the experiences and ideas of their colleagues. Students will form policy teams and define policy projects through consultations and according to their interests. While these policy projects are not necessarily client driven, in the past students have used their work on behalf of organizations where they are working. We strongly encourage and will facilitate such initiatives.
The first and second parts will be integrated through the preparation of a solid, in depth policy paper. The papers will be drafted and developed in the first part. During the second semester, based on more prolonged policy debate, additional reading and research, as well as interaction with guest commentators from the policy world, students will be able to finalize their papers and prepare an advocacy strategy. Each team will also be responsible for a policy talk to the university. Finally, by the end of this course students will produce a high quality policy paper which will form a part of the EPD Working Series on Development Policy and in some cases will be prepared for publication and wider dissemination.
**Please note that students registered in the EPD program will be given preference and that we will not be able to accommodate non-concentrators until all EPD students have been accommodated. EPD students do have alternatives to this one year sequence – namely the one-year Methods for Development Practice and Workshop in Applied Development, and in some instances students may make a case for a third alternative provided it makes sense in terms of the concentration’s goals and the particular student’s career objectives.