School of Public Policy and Governance

About Us

Established in the year 2013, the School of Public Policy and Governance (SPPG) has a mandate to create a cadre of public policy professionals who through their multi-disciplinary training respond to current challenges and incubate ideas to proactively meet future demands. The school provides interdisciplinary foundational training in Ethics and Policy, Economics (including big data analytics), Law, Political Science, and Sociology.  It encourages students to be reflexive in developing institutional designs that can transform public services

The school offers Six Post Graduate Programmes:

• MA in Public Policy and Governance
• PGD in Public Policy and Governance 
• MA in Cities and Governance
• PGD in Cities and Governance
• MA in Natural Resources and Governance 
• PGD in Natural Resources and Governance 
  

 The archetypal SPPG graduate is led through a combination of classroom and hands-on experiential learning methods. These skills equip students to

• Understand governance models, policy frameworks and institutional architecture at the intersection of theory and practice
• Analyse and interpret (big) data
• Acquire expertise in reading and drafting policies and legislation
• Develop skills to read, analyse and interpret financial and budget documents.
• Build methodological skills for policy research
• Evolve institutional designs and planning frameworks for equitable and sustainable futures
• Inculcate a policy vocabulary that facilitates communication with diverse audiences
• Exploring the intersection between ethics and policies

 The students of SPPG are drawn from various fields including social science, law, engineering, and medicine amongst many other disciplinary backgrounds