Economic Development: Using Analytical Frameworks For Smart Policy Design

Many communities are finding success cultivating a competitive advantage by using their unique assets to attract new investment and support existing businesses. These place-based assets might include residents and their skills; local architecture and infrastructure; technical, and medical institutions; local and regional business and employment concentrations; cultural, natural, and artistic resources; and general quality of life. This course aims to enhance participants understanding of how historical legacies, processes of change and structural features influence the relations between institutions and actors and, in turn, the policymaking and implementation process. Also, to examine how economic theory and rigorous evidence can be harnessed to design development policies that respond to organisations. Who Is This For? Senior and Middle level staff, Managers, Team Leaders, and Supervisors. OBJECTIVES At the end of this programme, participants will:

• Acquire the practical skills and techniques that can be immediately applied to a policy-related project
• Have the ability to meaningfully engage with public policy principles, processes, challenges, and interventions using analytical frameworks
• Gain the confidence to perform evidence-based policy impact evaluations and make better and more informed decisions.
• Understand the tools to make persuasive recommendations to policy stakeholders or a policy organisation