International Development-Politics, Governance and Development Policy

Overview

The  International Development-Politics, Governance and Development Policy course from The University of Manchester interrogates the discursive paradigms and material interventions in the area of politics and governance, which has moved to the centre of the international development agenda.

Aims

• Provide critical insights into different theoretical and disciplinary perspectives on the politics and governance of development.
• Develop your analytical skills in critically evaluating and employing different theories of politics, governance and policy analysis.
• Provide you with an opportunity to deepen your understanding of the how politics, governance and the formulation and implementation development policy interact in the global South.
• Provide critical insights into the key strategies, policies and practices currently employed to promote `good governance' and improved policy processes in the global South.
• Develop professionally-oriented skills related to formulating, investigating and implementing different approaches to promoting good governance.
• Provide a wide range of options for advanced training in areas of specialist expertise relevant to politics, governance and development policy.
• Develop advanced competencies in transferable areas, including developing reasoned arguments, gathering, organising and using evidence and information from a wide variety of sources, undertaking both team-based and independent work to deadlines, and both written and verbal forms of communication.

• Assist you in developing your specialist area of expertise within the field of politics, governance and development policy, and applying their understanding and skills through supervised individual research culminating in a dissertation.

Career

This course will prepare you for employment in a range of development-related fields, including research, policy and practice. A wide range of transferable skills will be developed, including analytical and professional skills.

More generally, the Global Development Institute (GDI) will equip you with the skills for specialist positions in development-related NGOs and public and private organisations. Potential careers include:

• international development;
• non-governmental organisations;
• central and local government;
• project implementation;
• consultancy;
• charity;
• urban and regional development policy;
• human resources;
• education;
• information and communication technologies;
• project management;