Academics Concentration

Overview

The Centre for Public Policy and Governance (CPPG) aspires to promote and disseminate teaching and research on public policy that centre stage citizen welfare, distributive justice and participative development, humane governance and consultative and transparent policy process in Pakistan. Though its teachings, CPPG aims to dispense a new generation of politically adept and well-rounded individuals into governmental as well as non-governmental and private sector organizations.

Courses

CPPG is designed to combine the functions of teaching, training and research through its Masters and Doctoral degree programs in Public Policy. By interweaving these functions, CPPG acts as an academic institution and a policy think tank that provides technical and conceptual skills, policy analysis and formulation, in a broad spectrum of Public Policy and Governance areas including Governance, Democracy and Institution Building; Environment, Demography, and Urban Change; and Peace Building and Conflict Management.

Courses Description

Required Courses comprise of essentials of Public Policy for working professionals. This includes: an introduction to public policy to familiarize participants with general approaches to ask questions in the policy world and answer them by using appropriate research methods; instill basic skills in economics, statistics and accounting which are required for policy analysis; and lastly acquaint participants with concepts and tools related to the use of technology in development and governance.

Skills development is essential for professionals to excel in their respective fields as thorough analytical skills are required to understand a policy problem. This is can be done through various methods whether quantitative or qualitative, and also different approaches that may either include power dynamics or concentrate on a technocratic cost-benefit analysis. Further, effective writing and communication skills are needed to both formulate a policy position as well as lobby for it through a well thought out communications strategy. Lastly modern era is increasingly defined by the use of technology both in development and governance, making technology regulation and application a critical feature of the policy domain.

Skills development is essential for professionals to excel in their respective fields as thorough analytical skills are required to understand a policy problem. This is can be done through various methods whether quantitative or qualitative, and also different approaches that may either include power dynamics or concentrate on a technocratic cost-benefit analysis. Further, effective writing and communication skills are needed to both formulate a policy position as well as lobby for it through a well thought out communications strategy. Lastly modern era is increasingly defined by the use of technology both in development and governance, making technology regulation and application a critical feature of the policy domain.

Environmental decay, rising population and accelerated urbanization is visible in Pakistan. Demographic change is phenomenal. The country has a population of 170 million and growing at a rate of 2% per annum. Forecasts of demographic transition in Pakistan raise concerns about citizen security, environmental decay, challenges of urban governance, energy self-sufficiency, water conservation, employment generation, peace, security, governance and the list is unending. Population is a human resource that demands investment in improving its quality, productivity and skills.

The concentration will explore the nexus between environment, urban change and demographic transition, specifically exploring questions in population strategy that helps in managing demographic transition and is not simply a Family planning/Reproductive health issue but a core national issue, which has implications for the very survival and efficient functioning of the Pakistani nation-state.

Pakistan has been mired in various conflicts both internal and with its neighbors since independence. The Kashmir imbroglio with India, the continuing war in Afghanistan, the insurgency in Baluchistan, the multifaceted violence in the large metropolis of Karachi, the religious sectarian violence, and ‘honor’ killings against women are but a representation of various types of violence in Pakistan. The PBCR concentration is meant to analyze these conflicts at a programmatic level to develop the necessary mediatory space, to produce skilled mediators, negotiators and facilitators as a go between the various parties or to create the necessary alternative discourse and effective institutions to counter the violence.

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