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Public Policy & Government Transformation5-day executive programUSD $1,999

National Export Strategy & Promotion

Export diversification and market access.

IPAT Executive Certificate 5 intensive days Permanent secretaries, directors-general, commissioners, directors, heads of delivery and M&E units, county and state executives, and development-partner leaders.

The executive challenge

The problem this program solves

The national export strategy reform has survived three permanent secretaries and zero implementations — and each transition resets an agenda the institution cannot afford to restart. Reforms that ignore incentives do not fail loudly; they fade into familiar underperformance and a new strategy document. This programme treats national export strategy as a delivery craft: evidence before commitment, incentives before exhortation, systems before speeches.

Context

Why this matters now

The cost of another failed national export strategy initiative is measured in public trust as much as in fiscal resources.
Evidence-based national export strategy is moving from aspiration to requirement: appraisal, evaluation and value-for-money scrutiny.
Digital treasury and administrative systems make national export strategy discipline enforceable for the first time — where leaders know how to use them.

Capability

What you will be able to do

  • Navigate the political economy of national export strategy reform without abandoning rigour.
  • Commission national export strategy evaluation and read it critically — attribution, gaming and all.
  • Build national export strategy delivery and measurement systems that move outcomes, not activity.
  • Present national export strategy 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 national export strategy 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.

Facility-level performance panelCost-effectiveness comparisonSupervision structure review

IPAT Data Lab™

The national export strategy 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 national export strategy 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.

You leave with: Evidence-Based Policy Design and Evaluation Framework

Methodology

Frameworks you will master

IPAT-proprietary methodology
  • • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
  • • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
Established practice you will apply
  • • 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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