Emotional competence has been widely demonstrated to be a critical factor for individual and team performance across the spectrum of working life.

This unique course will equip participants to engage in gender analysis of diverse public policy fields, including understanding concepts and methods to identify and address the differential impact of policy and its funding on both men and women.

For those who are relatively new to policy work or aspiring to work in policy areas, this course will explain how policy is made at the national level, highlighting the centrality of the Budget cycle and the importance of understanding your minister and the government for whom you work.

A contemporary public service requires policy makers to be well informed, responsive, collaborative, innovative and cohesive in their approach to policy development - in other words, to take a “strategic thinking” approach to policy development.

In our globalised society, people and organisations need to deal with increasingly frequent and severe shocks and stresses. This makes resilience crucial for anyone designing and implementing policy in our today’s complex world.

Course participants will develop an understanding of the key insights from economics and how they can be applied in policy and government settings.

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Understanding how policy-making really works has spawned rich debates amongst academics and practitioners over the years with considerable controversy and argument about:

To respond to poverty, policy must be informed by robust data that are fit for purpose. Currently, poverty data are in a state of flux as the limitations of traditional approaches are recognised. Household level data are insensitive to gender and other differences among household members.