Decision Backing Workshop

Recommended Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of English.

Teaching Methods

Sessions are organized as a workshop allowing for a collective discussion of the assumptions and strategies associated with writing decision backing documents, as well as a more tailored support of the work being developed by students.

Learning Outcomes

Main learning outcome

- provide skills for writing decision backing documents

 

Specific learning outcomes and skills

- Develop research skills gathering relevant information for the topic under scrutiny

- Develop analytical skills of the context within which the decision is being taken

- Develop writing skills of different types of decision backing documents, such as policy briefs, memoranda, political analysis reports.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Mapping of relevant infomation sources

- Analysis of the context within which the decision is being taken

- Substantiation of the political recommendations in the decision backing document

- Writing of the executive summary of the document.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Workshop participation: 20.0%
First version of policy brief : 30.0%
Final version of policy brief : 50.0%

Bibliography

FFRENCH-CONSTANT, Laura - How to plan, write and communicateand effective Policy Brief - Three Steps to Success. Research to Action. [disponível em NONIO]

HERMAN, Luciana - Policy Memos. Harvard Kennedy School, 2012. [disponível em NONIO]

INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR POLICY ADVOCACY - An essential guide to writing policy briefs. Berlin: International Centre for Policy Advocacy, 2017. [disponível em NONIO]

SMITH, Catherine F. - Writing Public Policy, 4th edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.