Public Policies from a HD perspective

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Este año celebramos nuestro quinto aniversario desde el evento de lanzamiento en 2006. En estos 5 años hemos formado más de 4.000 hombres y mujeres de la región.

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Este año celebramos nuestro quinto aniversario desde el evento de lanzamiento en 2006. En estos 5 años hemos formado más de 4.000 hombres y mujeres de la región.

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Este año celebramos nuestro quinto aniversario desde el evento de lanzamiento en 2006. En estos 5 años hemos formado más de 4.000 hombres y mujeres de la región.

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Public Policies from a HD perspective

Type: Virtual

Language: Spanish

Level Education: Undergraduate/Graduate

Duration: 13 weeks

Presentation

Human Development is a paradigm promoted by the UNDP since the 1990s. It is an alternative perspective to approach development, focusing on the expansion of people’s freedoms to live long, healthy and creative lives. From a Human Development perspective people are both the agents and the drivers of development. In order to achieve HD, public policies need to be designed and analyzed within this framework.

This course analyses and investigates key concepts of public policies from a HD perspective, provides tools for the process of creating public policies and discusses how to implement them into current agenda.

Course Structure

The course is structured to be completed in 12 weeks and this includes 5 subject topics and 2 weeks for course introduction and closing. The introduction includes a course summary, and the closing unit invites participants to assess the course according to the below structure:

Unit 0	Introduction to the Virtual School System, the course and its context: Presentation and introduction to the School, course and classmates Understanding and using the virtual classroom Understanding and organization of learning resources
Unit 1	Human Development Paradigm What “human development” means What human development is not How the concept was originated, and why Main differences from other approaches to development How has it evolved since the early 1990s to become a paradigm Main criticisms Gender equality and HD
Unit 2	Public Policy within a HD perspective Public Policies for HD What are Public Policies Public Policy Analysis
Unit 3	Policy implementation Proposed agenda and policy design Key ideas The environment of public policies Policy agenda reports
Unit 4	Policy implementation Characteristics of implementing policies Agency capacity, empowerment and participation
Unit 5	Monitoring, evaluation and finalising public policies Monitoring, evaluation and finalising public policies Human Development Indices
Closing Unit	Evaluation