Aims
Successful policy development is not only about defining problems and proposing ideas. These are important. To be a really effective policy player, skills are needed to operationalise ideas and policy goals into clear actions within definable time frames to produce assessable outcomes.
The purpose of this workshop is to connect policy development and in particular implementation to a project management process and framework. Project management techniques and processes offer a means of tackling essential policy development issues such as:
Establishing policy ownership
Managing organisational boundaries
Choosing policy instruments
Clarifying tasks
Defining work allocations
Allocating resources
Sequencing actions
Ensuring coordination
Maintaining commitment
Ensuring compliance
Promoting accountability
Monitoring progress
Meeting deadlines
Defining outcomes
Reviewing achievements
Key issues for discussion in this workshop include:
Understanding the policy development process
Implementation issues and problems
Connecting policy development to project management
Appreciating the project management framework
Thinking systematically about implementation
Clarifying policy and goals
Defining the operational issues
Assessing tasks, activities and work requirements
Allocating resources appropriately and in a timely manner
Defining deliverables within clear time frame
Methodology
The workshop will introduce participants to key concepts and information sharing and then through case studies, group activities and interactive tasks seek to provide a means for the application of these to real world situations.
This workshop equips participants to:
better appreciate the overall policy development process
understand the key tasks needed to operationalise policy
be able to apply a project management framework
connect policy development and project management
apply project management techniques and processes to effective policy implementation
better meet government priorities
manage resources more effectively
Who will benefit most from this Policy & Project Management workshop?
