Track 1: National Institutions, Poverty Reduction Strategies and Aid
The track in‘ National Institutions, Poverty Reduction Strategies and Aid’ focuses on the analysis of the interaction between national institutions, local politics and external actors. The basic question addressed concerns why development interventions are sometimes successful but more often fail. This leads to further, more operational questions. Which lessons have been learned from the study of past failures and successes, and how convincing are current prescriptions and paradigms for development policy? The programme teaches students to use appropriate analytical frameworks and to apply relevant scientific methods in evaluating results and drawing policy conclusions. It introduces students to various kinds of evaluation, based on quantitative as well as qualitative techniques.
This track is intended for participants who have work experience or who aspire to a career in government institutions( including public research institutions), donor agencies( including international NGOs, bilateral and multilateral donors), civil society( including research institutes, universities). Candidates work in the field of development intervention or poverty reduction initiatives, and they are oriented towards macro-level policy. Professionally, they are middle managers with policy responsibilities and / or responsibility for managing the interface between different policy levels( e. g. national to international, national to local) or between different arenas( e. g. government-donors, INGO-national NGO).
Track 2: Development Interventions and Local Institutional Change
The track in‘ Development Interventions and Local Institutional Change’ conceptualises socio-political and economic development as the outcome of interactions between a conditioning institutional environment and the agency of local, national and international actors, including multilateral and bilateral, governmental and non-governmental aid actors. Special attention is paid to the importance of micro-level institutions and processes, as well as to how they condition the effectiveness of development efforts in improving livelihoods and neutralising processes of social exclusion. The detailed exploration of how local contexts transform processes involving the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development interventions is of crucial importance to recognising opportunities for resolving the poverty conundrum.
This track is intended for participants who have work experience or who aspire to a career in civil society in the South( e. g. at research institutes or universities, or with local NGOs or entrepreneurial associations), donor agencies( including international NGOs, bilateral and multilateral donors) and government institutions. Candidates should be involved in development interventions or poverty reduction initiatives in micro-level or mesolevel projects and programmes. Professionally, candidates are middle-managers with policy and / or managerial responsibilities at the interface between different policy levels( e. g. local to national, national to international) or between different arenas( e. g. civil societygovernment, government-donors, INGOnational NGO). iob · 13