Electoral Management & Democratic Institutions
Run elections whose results the losers can accept.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Donor-funded electoral management pilots succeed in three districts and fail at scale, and the system cannot explain why one works and the other does not. Under fiscal pressure, every wasted electoral management shilling is a borrowed shilling: the gap now compounds through debt service. This is where electoral management stops being a policy document and becomes a delivery system with an author, a cadence and consequences.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Design electoral management policy that survives implementation: evidence, incentives and delivery capability.
- Present electoral management evidence at the cabinet table with brevity, honesty and stakes.
- Build electoral management delivery and measurement systems that move outcomes, not activity.
- Commission electoral management evaluation and read it critically — attribution, gaming and all.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
The Dam at Two-Thirds
A flagship project at a water services regulator is two-thirds complete when independent review finds the hydrology assumptions optimistic and a cheaper alternative existed. Cancelling embarrasses the government; completing it strains the debt ceiling.
Your decision: Complete, redesign, or pause — and design the public accountability for whichever you choose, electoral management evidence included.
IPAT Data Lab™
The electoral management data at a ministry of health measures activity; nobody measures delivery.
Dataset: Synthetic administrative and survey data for a ministry of health — the two sources disagree.
Your task: Reconcile the sources, build the delivery dashboard, and defend it before a faculty "cabinet".
A electoral management delivery dashboard that resists gaming.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build the design and evaluation framework for your institution's flagship programme: evidence base, causal chain, measurement, and delivery governance.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
- • Cost-benefit analysis and regulatory impact assessment
- • Results-based management
- • Randomized and quasi-experimental evaluation methods
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
New dates are being scheduled
Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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