Public Participation & Deliberative Policy
Meaningful citizen engagement in decisions.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
The public participation 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 is where public participation 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
- Navigate the political economy of public participation reform without abandoning rigour.
- Commission public participation evaluation and read it critically — attribution, gaming and all.
- Build public participation delivery and measurement systems that move outcomes, not activity.
- Present public participation 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 public participation 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 public participation data at a national statistics office measures activity; nobody measures delivery.
Dataset: Synthetic administrative and survey data for a national statistics office — the two sources disagree.
Your task: Reconcile the sources, build the delivery dashboard, and defend it before a faculty "cabinet".
A public participation 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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