Labour Market Policy & Employment Strategy
Design labour policy in economies where jobs are the scoreboard.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
The data on labour market policy sits in administrative systems nobody reads, while the decisions are made in meetings nobody audits. Under fiscal pressure, every wasted labour market policy shilling is a borrowed shilling: the gap now compounds through debt service. In five days you learn why well-funded labour market policy underperforms, and you rehearse the cabinet conversation that changes it.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Navigate the political economy of labour market policy reform without abandoning rigour.
- Commission labour market policy evaluation and read it critically — attribution, gaming and all.
- Build labour market policy delivery and measurement systems that move outcomes, not activity.
- Present labour market policy evidence at the cabinet table with brevity, honesty and stakes.
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 Initiative That Worked in Three Districts
One district doubles immunisation coverage using data, supervision and modest incentives; neighbouring districts with the same labour market policy budget stagnate. The ministry wants to scale it before the next audit cycle.
Your decision: Decide what to scale, what to formalise, and what scaling will destroy if done clumsily.
IPAT Data Lab™
The labour market policy data at a ministry of finance measures activity; nobody measures delivery.
Dataset: Synthetic administrative and survey data for a ministry of finance — the two sources disagree.
Your task: Reconcile the sources, build the delivery dashboard, and defend it before a faculty "cabinet".
A labour market policy 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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