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Course date
July 6–11, 2015
Location
Budapest
Application deadline
Course delivery
In-person

This policy lab aims to assist academics from all disciplines, education administrators, and trainers of public officials to incorporate integrity education into their teaching and training, with components of classroom and community-based action learning. It also addresses the challenges and opportunities for building integrity and integrating feedback loops in development.
It brings together practitioners across sectors to focus on collective action learning and evidence-based decision-making, collaborative problem identification and solving, and feedback mechanisms that ‘close the loop’ to trigger corrective activity and stakeholder satisfaction. It will help you to develop curricula, modules, syllabi, and training that use interactive, collaborative, and student-centered teaching and learning methods in various media to equip students and executives with the knowledge and skills to recognize integrity challenges and formulate and implement responsible, practical solutions.
Universities and schools are looking for strategies to inspire their students in the classroom, on campus, and in the community, as well as to nurture a personal and institutional culture of accountability, competence, and ethics. You shall learn about the Community Integrity Building (CIB) cycle, used for monitoring public projects and services to ensure project implementation with integrity. The final step in the cycle of ‘Closing the Loop’ provides feedback to all involved project stakeholders, to reach the highest level of satisfaction possible. Incorporating CIB or other social accountability methods into your course or training will enhance its value for students and public officials.
Drawing on the experience from various contexts, this lab will explore how integrity, transparency, and accountability methodologies can be incorporated into public resource and project management towards service delivery as a matter of course to improve the quality of people’s lives. This will also create numerous opportunities for mutual learning and peer review.
 
Many academics and trainers ask themselves:

  • How can I engage my students to develop their cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills to prepare them for the integrity challenges they’ll face in their professions?
  • As part of my institution’s senior management, how can I cultivate an environment that promotes direct student involvement in implementing the learning to deepen its impact?
  • How do I train public officials to appreciate the benefits of engaging with citizens to improve public services?
  • What can I do to make executive education more practical to develop skills that will be useful from their first day back at work?
  • How can we build a system that supports citizen feedback through people-centered design, technology, and other inclusive methods?

Key Learning Objectives

  • Gain knowledge and skills in incorporating into curricula and training new integrity content, experiential learning methods, and case studies
  • Formulate strategies for cultivating an institutional environment that provides opportunities for action learning as part of the educational experience as well as building integrity and integrating feedback mechanisms in systems and programmes
  • Develop knowledge and skills in analyzing and problem-solving to address challenges within development contexts
  • Acquire practical skills in analyzing and problem-solving personal integrity challenges as well as institutional ones
  • Understand and appreciate the benefits and methods for public officials and community-based organizations working together to improve public services.

Who Should Take This Policy Lab?

This policy lab is principally aimed at practitioners who are experienced in academic and training institutions such as teachers, lecturers, and trainers, as well as development agencies, public and private institutes, government and civil society organizations working towards building integrity and closing the loop to strengthen governance and performance in communities and education.

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