Workshop on Enhancing Negotiation Knowledge of the Media Personnel
Date: 02 July 2022
Training on Enhancing Trade and Investment Related Negotiation Skills
Date: 24-26 May 2022
Training on Enhancing Development Financing related Negotiation Skills
Date: 24-26 May 2022
Training on Enhancing Climate Change related Negotiation Skills
Date: 21-23 May 2022
Workshop on Negotiation Skills for the MPPG Alumni
Date: 14 May 2022
Training on Enhancing Trade related Negotiation Skills
Date: 27-29 March 2022
Date: 12-16 March 2022
Inception Workshop for the Training on Enhancing Negotiation Skills
Date: 15 January 2022
The Center for Peace Studies (CPS) under South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance (SIPG) of North South University is going to organize a 12-week long certificate course titled: Geopolitics of Peace, Pandemic & Development in Asia and Beyond. The course will consist of interactive discussions, field visits and in-class exercises.
The participants will be students, who wish to gain knowledge on Asian development, geopolitics, and economy as part of their academic program, and professionals, (NGO and government officials, business executives, journalists, academicians, diplomats, etc.) who want to expand their knowledge about current global affairs.
Forcibly displaced people and refugees have perhaps received much attention in the academic as well as political field in the last two decades nationally and globally. From Syria to Afghanistan or from South Sudan to Myanmar – there are 26 million refugees among the 79.5 million forcibly displaced people around the world, which includes millions of stateless people (UNHCR, June 2020). While it is not possible to resolve the crisis of the forcibly displaced people overnight, surely raising awareness and gaining knowledge on this issue are necessary for people who care about the forcibly displaced people, refugees, and stateless people.
After having successfully completed a 10-week certificate course on Humanitarianism, Policy, and Diplomacy in early 2021, the Center for Peace Studies (CPS) for the first time in Bangladesh, is going to organize an 11-week course in partnership with the Human Rights Practice Program at the University of Arizona to look at the dynamics of the national, bilateral, regional, and global politics and policies including economic and security issues related to the Rohingya crisis.
The Center for Peace Studies (CPS) under South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance (SIPG) of North South University is going to organize a 10-week long certificate course titled: Humanitarianism, Policy, and Diplomacy. This course will provide a framework for the participants to help them better understand the role of state and non-state actors in responding to global disasters, crises, and tragedies by coming forward to render assistance to those in distress. It looks at the policies and politics of humanitarian crises as well as the need for protecting humanity. It also examines legal, moral, and ethical dimensions of global security of all human beings regardless of race, creed, and/or ethnic/political affiliation.
The participants will be students, who wish to include humanitarianism as part of their academic program, and professionals, (teachers, diplomats, journalists, NGO workers, etc.) who want to expand their knowledge about humanitarianism.
Faculty members from North South University, University of Hawaii, University of Western Sydney, specialists from International Organizations will be the trainers in this course. The course offers an opportunity to the participants to experience humanitarianism at the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.
The South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance(SIPG) has conducted a training program for the officials of Economic Relations Division (ERD) which is called: Managing Change for Innovation in collaboration with the Economic Relations Division under Ministry of Finance of the Government of Peoples Republic of Bangladesh. This training program is specially designed to equip the ERD officials with up to date skills and knowledge on Innovation and Change Management to manage the forthcoming challenges after elevating to the middle-income country from lower-income country. The uniqueness of this training program is to identify a problem within ERD and application of learned knowledge to solve the problem in an innovative way.
This short training programme has been designed to enable officials of ERD to (1) understand how innovative changes can be introduced within the organisation, so that ERD can respond to a changing global and national environment, and to (2) build the capacity of the officials in ERD to be responsive to the needs of its clientele. In this programme, the officials would be required to identify possible areas within ERD where innovative changes can be introduced. In order to sustain the experiential learning of this programme, the participants would be allowed a certain period of time after the training event to implement the identified innovative changes within ERD .
The training program arranged in two different phases. The Phase I was a two day long training program for 35 officials and Phase II was a three day long training program for 75 officials from ERD.
The Department of General and Continuing Education (GCE) has launched a training project under UNDP’s Civil Service Change Management Programme which is called: Change Management Training in collaboration with the Ministry of Establishment of the Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh. This training program is specially designed to develop a core group in the civil service who will be responsible for implementing change processes in selected areas to ensure pro-poor service delivery and to provide knowledge-based leadership in civil service.
The Civil Service Change Management Programme (CSCMP) is an initiative of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) and the UNDP with the aim to provide 'a toolbox or roadmap' for civil service reform in Bangladesh. This public administration reform program aims at supporting the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh in undertaking strategic, doable and high-leverage initiatives. The Programme is part of a longer ‘tradition’ of public administration reform in Bangladesh (in fact, the reform of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) has been on the political agenda since Independence in 1971). The long list of both indigenous and donor-driven reform efforts has significantly influenced the conceptualization and formulation of the Programme. CSCMP does not intend to design, develop and implement wholesale public administration reform. Instead, its main aim is to put the BCS on the road to change, in line with the essentially incremental and unpredictable nature of change. The Programme devotes ample attention to implementation, more specifically, to the management of the changes.
The Programme tries to realize this output through strategic interventions in carefully selected reform areas, in order to create maximum leverage for further reform activities:
The change management strategy for CSCMP will incorporate the lessons taught by system and complexity theory and take a flexible and entrepreneurial approach to change at BCS. It will resist the temptation of planned and controlled change, and focus instead upon assisting the BCS in setting up conductive conditions for change to emerge, evolve and consolidate, with an emphasis on the development of the capacity of the organization to learn, adapt and change. Additionally, CSCMP will encourage, stimulate and facilitate building relationships with other actors in the system, while at the same time encourage those actors to become engaged in the change process at the BCS.
To create a corps of skilled, proactive and well-groomed civil servants committed to working as a change agent in the Bangladesh Civil Service.
End of the program the participants would be able to:
MPPG Program launched 'Change Management Training' under UNDP in collaboration with the Ministry of Establishment during 2009-2010. After successfully completing the training course, the MPPG Program was highly appreciated by both the donor and the Government of Bangladesh for such well organized and quality training. Inspired by the previous experience and considering the market demand, MPPG Program organizes a certificate course on 'Governance and Development' for the professionals both for government and NGO sectors. The expected target groups of the certificate course are professionals working in the public sector, NGOs, development partners, and non-profit sectors, research organization, postgraduate students of universities and also defense personnel. The duration of the course is 7 weeks comprising a total of 18 modules and in each module, both theoretical and practical aspects will be taught by academicians and practitioners. The course is conducted by renowned scholars and faculty members from both national and international universities, research organizations and senior civil servants of Bangladesh along with ex-advisers of Care Taker Government as well as higher officials of different UN organizations and other international agencies.
At the end of the course the participants are expected to:
An advertisement for the executive certificate course is given in the daily newspaper and website. The MPPG Program successfully completed the 1st batch of ECC from March to May 2013 and expected date of commencement of the second batch will be announced soon.
Public Policy and Governance Program of North South University arrange three-day long training program for the University Grants Commission, Nepal. The training program conducted by renowned faculty members from Public and Private universities and public institutions along with ex-member of University Grant Commission of Bangladesh. The participants from UGC Nepal visited University Grants Commission, Bangladesh and the University of Dhaka to exchange their views and understanding with the faculties and officials. During this discussion, the participants also came to learn about the process of ensuring governance in the higher education.