Date: February 20, 2013
Venue: Nepal Administrative Staff College (NASC), Jawalakhel
Time: 9.30 am to 5 pm

Participation by invitation only

Niti Foundation and Nepal Administrative Staff College (NASC) are jointly organizing a seminar on Public Policy Management. Within the changing socio-political context of the Nepali state, there is increasing pressure on the bureaucracy to enable an effective democratic public policy management regime. Remaining within structural and procedural reforms in the bureaucracy for public policy management, the objective of this seminar is to bring together key stakeholders from the government, civil society and academia to explore the context and challenges of instituting a broader policy management framework within the government as the first step towards initiating public policy process reform. The scope of deliberation of this policy seminar will encompass the following key themes:

1. Role and responsibilities of public institutions (Ministries of Government of Nepal) in managing public policy functions
2. Contextualizing public policy management – exploring current bureaucratic capacity, trend and challenges in managing public policies
3. Diagnosis of public policy process in Nepal reform
4. Building capacity for public policy management – course on public policy