Open-enrolment programs

Open-enrolment Programs 

Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy

OPEN-ENROLMENT PROGRAMMES

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Behavioral Insights for Effective Public Policy

 

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Behavioral public policy is the application of insights from psychology and behavioral sciences to public policy design and implementation.

This course incorporates the findings of behavioral sciences into public policy. The course takes a practical approach by utilizing various examples from international experience of the use and adoption of behavioral insights across governments, regulatory bodies, public organizations, and different sectors. We first focus on the study of individual and social behavior from the perspective of behavioral economics and identify common patterns of judgment and choice biases, and mistakes that were documented in the psychological literature as they result from various heuristics and statistical errors. Then we look at the examples that adopt the (F)EAST framework from all around the world to demonstrate how these findings of behavioral sciences can be applied to policy concerns in all branches of public decision making.
Exploring Qualitative Methods for Policy Research 3

The program is intended for post-graduates and faculty members of local Universities interested in social science research in general and public policy research, analysis, and evaluation in particular. It begins with an overview of different types of research designs and selection of appropriate analytical tools. Then successive sessions take participants through various research methods with in class practice including case study and comparative analysis, action research, discourse analysis, focus groups, interviews. By attending this intensive three day program, the participants are expected to acquire sufficient expertise in conceptualizing and executing research projects. One of the important part of the training includes practical work in the lab using Nvivo software to analyze qualitative data.
 Sustainable Development and Modernization of Kazakhstan  3  This program covers sustainable development concept over four sessions:
  • From Development Policies to Sustainable Development Policies
    • This session provides an overview of the sustainable development concept, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and entailing public policies through an inter-disciplinary framework.
  • Effective State Apparatus for Sustainable Development
    • This module seeks to enhance the participants’ knowledge about governance implications and state capacity for sustainable development. This intends to equip them with new values, skills and competencies needed in order to effectively adopt and implement policies/programs and work collaboratively with other actors in advancing and supporting sustainable development agenda.
  • Energy Transition in Central Asia & the Next Steps
    • In this module, participants will delve into an insightful exploration of the current status of energy transitions in the Central Asian region. It will provide a comprehensive overview of the existing energy landscape, highlighting the region’s energy sources, consumption patterns, and associated environmental challenges.
  • Green Economy and Green Growth
    • This session introduces the rationale for a green transformation, explains relevant concepts and discusses the coherence and complementarity of the green economy with sustainable development. 
 Security Challenges and Policy Response  2  This course focuses on security issues/challenges in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. We explore various security threats including human, cyber, food, and health security, terrorism in the Central Asian region and beyond. These major topics will be considered in their relation to governance and everyday political life in Central Asia and Kazakhstan, in particular. Participants will be able to critically analyze security threats and the ways policy makers can deal with them.  
The Blue Ocean Strategy: an approach to finding high impact & low-cost solutions   2  The Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) model has encouraged numerous private sector organizations to develop innovative strategies that put them ahead of the game. Likewise, the value and transformative potentials of the BOS model are acknowledged in the public sector. Increasingly, this is being used at the local, state and national levels to devise and implement high-impact, low-cost initiatives that cut across departments, ministries, agencies, and municipalities. This course is designed to familiarize the participants with the BOS model, its core principles & tools as well as applications in both public and private sector situations. It seeks to provide a comprehensive introduction to BOS with a hands-on approach where the participants will learn and apply the tools and frameworks in their respective organizations
 Ethics and Public Policy  2  This course focuses on normative values and ethical dilemmas in public policy. The key purpose of this course is to prepare participants to have a critical perspective on public policy and to be able to evaluate the moral dilemmas that policy makers, politicians, and citizens have to face in the policy-making process and beyond. We will examine how policy actors use moral reasoning and ethical arguments – justice, fairness, freedom, duty/obligation, efficiency – to motivate and justify policy preferences. The course will focus on main ethical approaches, a study of dilemmas, norms and values in public policy and professional ethics; and the analysis of public policy case studies to address the ethical and moral dimensions of a number contemporary domestic and international policy issues.
Regulatory Impact Assessment 2 Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) is both a document and a decision process for supporting decision makers on whether and how to regulate in order to achieve public policy goals. RIA helps to improve the design of regulations by assisting policy makers in identifying the most efficient and effective solution to address a policy problem. RIA examines evidence for the costs and benefits of regulation and non-regulatory alternatives of achieving policy goals in order to identify the approach that is likely to deliver the greatest net benefit to society. RIA can assist in promoting policy coherence by pointing to the trade-offs inherent in regulatory proposals, and identifying who is likely to benefit from a regulation and who will bear the costs. RIA can also improve the use of evidence in policy making and help avoid regulatory failure arising from regulating when there is no case for doing so, or failing to regulate when regulation is needed. Finally, RIA documents all of the evidence and increases accountability of policy decisions.
Strategic Decision  Making for Public Managers 2

Game Theory has become the richest and most preferred method of analyzing interactions among people, businesses, and public policy. From politics to economic decisions, interdependency in decision-making and its impact on developing strategies makes Game Theory more relevant than ever. This course uses the tools of game theory to study strategic behavior in real-world situations with a special emphasis on public policy and public management. It is based on real world cases and examples from everyday life, sport, military operations, government actions in a wide variety of policy areas, from energy to environment policy and from regulations to tax policy to illustrate the reach of game theory and decision theory as tools for strategic analysis. We use game theoretic approaches to analyze typical public policy problems and extend this knowledge to more complex policy issues including, but not limited to, competition, taxation, R&D, political accountability, control of corruption, and voting behavior.
Promoting Tourism in Kazakhstan 2

Tourism is known to contribute to economic growth, poverty reduction, employment, and technology transfer. As a result the development of the tourism industry can make a significant contribution to the diversification of the economy especially in resource-rich countries.

Tourism policy is one of the most important requisites for the successful development of the tourism industry.

The purpose of the course is to enable participants to understand which policy tools could be employed to create a thriving tourism sector. In doing so attention will be paid to the developmental dividends of tourism, which is the reason why developing countries have in recent decades attempted to develop the tourism sector; to the environmental impact of tourism and the importance of sustainability; to the types of tourism as well as to the importance of intra-destination movements in tourism destinations; the life cycle of tourism destinations (exploration, involvement, development, consolidation, stagnation, decline or rejuvenation); tourism marketing and social media; the training of tourism professional and destination experts.

 

* Length and content of the program can be customized to the specific needs of the organization.  

Training can be organized in the cities of Astana and Almaty. The program is carried out with a minimum of 15 participants (and a maximum of 30 participants).

NU GSPP will provide study venues, handouts and meals during classes.

Should you have any questions on our executive programs, you can reach our programme advisors at zhanar.ismailova@nu.edu.kz or contact by the phone: + 7 7172 70 64 62.

 

Open-enrolment programs are provided on a regular basis, open to senior managers and managers of a wide range of public or private sector organizations