Gender Mainstreaming in Public Policy
Budgets and policy that work for everyone.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
The data on gender mainstreaming sits in administrative systems nobody reads, while the decisions are made in meetings nobody audits. Every failed attempt makes the next gender mainstreaming reform harder to fund, staff and announce. You leave with a design canvas, a delivery chain and a measurement system for your own gender mainstreaming priority — built against your real constraints.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Design gender mainstreaming policy that survives implementation: evidence, incentives and delivery capability.
- Present gender mainstreaming evidence at the cabinet table with brevity, honesty and stakes.
- Build gender mainstreaming delivery and measurement systems that move outcomes, not activity.
- Commission gender mainstreaming 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 Subsidy on the Cabinet Table
A subsidy now consumes more than the combined health and education capital budgets of a ministry of finance. Two reform attempts ended in protests and retreat; a compensation scheme is possible but untested — and the gender mainstreaming analysis exists for neither.
Your decision: Recommend the removal design, the compensation architecture and the political sequencing — with the cabinet watching.
IPAT Data Lab™
The gender mainstreaming 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 gender mainstreaming 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
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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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