Are you a public policymaker frustrated with the limited impact of your government’s policies? Do you see many policy ideas starting out with promise but ending up incomplete or ineffectively implemented? Are you trying to improve implementation? If so, you are not alone.
Join with peers from around the globe for a dynamic, highly engaging blended learning format of Implementing Public Policy (IPP) offering a combination of both online and in-person learning, as well as applied action learning —where participants will have time to work on their implementation challenge, apply their learning to their own context, reflect on their experiences, share and learn, and become part of a global community of practice.
The program will be delivered over a period of six months from May 13th to November 12th, 2024, and will include four components:
- Online modules: where you will consider public policy success as well as failure, and reflect on your implementation challenge.
- On-campus: where you will be immersed in an intense, interactive environment with Harvard faculty and practitioners to discuss your respective challenges, and explore different implementation methods that could help achieve your policy goals.
- Action learning: where you return to your organization and continue working on your implementation challenge using the tools and tactics you learned with support from the faculty.
- Community of Practice: where you will join Harvard Kennedy School’s Implementing Public Policy Community of Practice, a network of alumni committed to improving policy implementation around the world.
Listen to faculty chair Matt Andrews discuss the IPP curriculum.
Since 2019, over 341 participants in 76 countries have successfully completed the program and joined our community of practice. Here is what participants had to say about the program:
“The IPP course was one of the best educational experiences I have ever had in my over 25 years of local government and non-profit work!”
“I’ve come across ideas similar to PDIA before. But, every time I’ve seen it before there didn’t seem to be any tools associated, like when to use it or why to use it. It’s quite valuable to have a framework to help deconstruct a problem and to think through the steps of approaching a complex policy challenge.”
“I loved how we learned to use the problem as the motivation strategy and to get people on board in authorizing the work and in sharing in responsibility for the solutions. If you can agree there is a problem, it becomes harder to deny that solutions are needed.”
Watch a testimonial video from alumni of the program. You can also read their learning journey stories.
We launched a podcast series featuring IPP alumni from the class of 2019. The episodes focus on how they are using the PDIA tools and approach in designing and implementing public policy, two years after the completed the program. They also share what the IPP Community of Practice means to them.
Join our IPP community by applying now! Application deadline is April 15, 2024.
