Applications Invited for M.A. (Public Policy and Sustainable Development)

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About the Organization

TERI School of Advanced Studies was set up as a Trust by TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) - a not-for-profit, independent research institute recognized globally for its contribution to scientific and policy research in the realms of energy, environment, and sustainable development in 1998. In 1999, the TERI School of Advanced Studies was granted the ‘Deemed to be University’ status by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and notified vide the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Department of Education, Government of India, notification no. F.9/19/95-U-3, dated October 5, 1999. The objective of the TERI SAS is to build capacity around various themes of sustainable development adopting an inter-disciplinary approach and incorporating the most contemporary, research-based evidence into the curriculum. Since its inception, the TERI SAS has offered not just world-class education, but also an environment that enables its students to develop fresh perspective in their subject areas. Beyond the academic programmes, the deemed University is actively reaching out to school and college students as also to mid-career professionals to sensitize them towards the environment and sustainable development in a systemic, solutions-oriented manner. The deemed University started functioning from its ‘green campus’, located in Vasant Kunj, in 2008 and today offers a dozen Masters programmes and has nearly 200 PhD students enrolled. It has started work on developing a new campus at Hyderabad, Telangana in the south of India and hopes to start offering academic programmes from this campus .

About the Program

The MA (Public Policy and Sustainable Development)- MA(PP&SD) - programme, offered by the TERI SAS encompasses a comprehensive and well-structured two-year curriculum on public policy formulation, analysis, evaluation, management, and links with development concerns.

Policy decisions by government officials at all levels are required to be increasingly multifaceted especially in the light of economic reforms and the need to ensure that decision-making contributes to sustainability in the development process. Private not-for-profit and for-profit business entities also have a bearing on development-related policy decisions. To respond effectively to these issues, civil servants and those engaged in the non-governmental sectors, need to;

• Be trained in the politics and economics of public policy and in sophisticated methods and tools of analysis, and
• Refresh their knowledge of the substantive development issues at hand.

Programme Specific Outcomes

The PP&SD programme offers a unique opportunity to understand public policy-making across sectors such as energy, environment, natural resources, social security and public finance. It assists the participants in experiential learning through the following factors;

• Identify problems and the scope for policy intervention
• Build up strong analytical capabilities that help to evaluate when policy interventions are needed and also their necessary impacts
• Gain an understanding of the normative basis of choice of policy objectives and trade-off
• Analyse policy constraints, design of public institutions, and choice of policy instruments
• Pragmatic assessment of unintended consequences of various policies
• Facilitate formulation of processes of stakeholder consultations and debates

Eligibility

Graduates with a minimum experience of two years in any of the following sectors are eligible for the programme: Government, Regulatory Bodies, Industry, Research/Academic Institutions, NGOs and Donor/Consultant organisations.

The eligibility criteria for officers of All India Services, Central Services (organised & nonorganised, technical & cers of the State Civil Servicesnon-technical), faculty members of State Administrative Training Institutes and of & Non-State Civil Services will be as per DoPT requirements.

Deadline

2nd Aug 2022

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