Institutionalizing the Public Policy and Management Education in Nepal with Multiple Strategies: The Vehicle for State and Societal Transformation
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This paper attempts to reorient and institutionalize the public policy and management education in Nepal, linking it with the framework of state and societal transformation using multiple strategies such as critical pedagogy, reflective and experiential learning, impactful professional career, pragmatic analysis, design thinking, human centric innovation and action, university- community partnership, land grant institutions/missions, student led engagement etc. Firstly, it identifies the issues and challenges of public policy, governance and management for exploring the ways and possibilities of informed and evidencebased analysis and solutions. Secondly, it comprehends and analyses how this academic program contributes to address the aforesaid issues and challenges for societal transformation. Thirdly, an attempt is being made to craft/recraft the emerging and globally recognized human centric design thinking and innovative tool/approach called 'Policy Lab' to ‘Discover, Design and Evaluate (DDE)†’ the ways and possibilities of informed and evidence based policy analysis and solutions, decision making and implementation to ensure effective public service delivery. The lab attempts to bridge the gap between the academia and public policy mainstream and provides opportunities for the students, professors, scholars of each university and college/campus to undertake research on peoples’ concerns and their livelihood considering policy avenue. They would learn, teach, support and engage the community people in policy formulation and its effective implementation, thus making the universities and their campuses/colleges not only as the ivory tower but also the agencies to learn from the community, teach and support the community, and enjoy with the community and celebrate the community. The policy outreach center and networks would bring all stakeholders (students, faculty, activists and legislators) committed to policy activism, built on knowledge, cooperation, justice and integrity devoted to growth and development of the nation, together and consider the need based engagement of civil society, business entities, and political actors in this program. Ultimately, all these consolidated efforts would contribute (through informed and critical analysis of issues and challenges, creating program, public policy analysis and management) for overall state and societal transformation through different levels of University-Community partnership.
Institutionalizing the Public Policy and Management Education in Nepal with Multiple Strategies: The Vehicle for State and Societal Transformation
This paper attempts to reorient and institutionalize the public policy and management education in Nepal, linking it with the framework of state and societal transformation using multiple strategies such as critical pedagogy, reflective and experiential learning, impactful professional career, pragmatic analysis, design thinking, human centric innovation and action, university- community partnership, land grant institutions/missions, student led engagement etc. Firstly, it identifies the issues and challenges of public policy, governance and management for exploring the ways and possibilities of informed and evidencebased analysis and solutions. Secondly, it comprehends and analyses how this academic program contributes to address the aforesaid issues and challenges for societal transformation. Thirdly, an attempt is being made to craft/recraft the emerging and globally recognized human centric design thinking and innovative tool/approach called 'Policy Lab' to ‘Discover, Design and Evaluate (DDE)†’ the ways and possibilities of informed and evidence based policy analysis and solutions, decision making and implementation to ensure effective public service delivery. The lab attempts to bridge the gap between the academia and public policy mainstream and provides opportunities for the students, professors, scholars of each university and college/campus to undertake research on peoples’ concerns and their livelihood considering policy avenue. They would learn, teach, support and engage the community people in policy formulation and its effective implementation, thus making the universities and their campuses/colleges not only as the ivory tower but also the agencies to learn from the community, teach and support the community, and enjoy with the community and celebrate the community. The policy outreach center and networks would bring all stakeholders (students, faculty, activists and legislators) committed to policy activism, built on knowledge, cooperation, justice and integrity devoted to growth and development of the nation, together and consider the need based engagement of civil society, business entities, and political actors in this program. Ultimately, all these consolidated efforts would contribute (through informed and critical analysis of issues and challenges, creating program, public policy analysis and management) for overall state and societal transformation through different levels of University-Community partnership.