Public Policy making in Slovakia

The overall objective of the project is to speed up the policy reform process in Slovakia and to increase the effectiveness and transparency of the Slovak Government. This was reached by establishing an educational infrastructure to train and retrain Slovak officials and other groups from Slovak society in all aspects of modern public policy making.    

Particular objective of the project was the development of a curriculum and training materials for a masters programme in public policy making and actual training of Slovakian officials.

- Development of a curriculum for a MA programme in public policy making:

• General aspects of public policy
• Economic aspects of public policy
• Law and public policy
• Multilevel Public Policy Making and Its Consequences (Integration, Decentralization)
• Analytical and Research Methods - Qualitative
• Practical Aspects of Public Policy

- Train-the-trainers

- Developing a curriculum for retraining of civil servants at central and decentralised level in public policy making

- Creating a network of educational institutes for further developing public policy making in Slovakia

Origin of funding: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Client: Slovak Government