Implementing Initiatives in Complex Bureaucracies: From Ideas to Outcomes

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This course provides a comprehensive exploration of how public policy ideas and initiatives are successfully conceived, developed, funded, implemented, monitored and evaluated in large and complex bureaucracies. The focus will be on governments and international organizations. The course examines the complexity of these bureaucracies and the journey from policy ideas to outcome (intended or otherwise), with a focus on successful implementation within complex systems. The course provides an in-depth exploration of the intricacies on how to get project/policy ideas conceived, adopted and successfully implemented.