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Theoretical and empirical examination of how policy, programme and community-level interventions can be employed to promote social justice and address key development challenges

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"3&$3)&4' The MSc/Postgraduate Di-ploma in Development Administration and Planning (DAP) at the Bartlett’s Develop-ment Planning Unit (DPU) is designed to equip participants with the analytical, methodological and practical expertise needed to make a positive contribution to development in countries in which they are actively involved.In particular, it helps students to acquire a range of tools for the formulation of ap-propriate responses to a diverse range of problems, including those relating to productive capacity, inter-sectoral integra-tion, economic and social diversification and self-sufficiency. The course examines strategies for poverty alleviation, com-bined with policies relating to questions of distribution and, in particular, the reduc-tion of inequality.By critically examining the theory and prac-tice of development administration at the

"55"$*#6)*)&%' This strongly interdis-ciplinary course attracts, among others, anthropologists, economists, geogra-phers, lawyers, politicians and public administrators. Since the course’s be-ginnings in the mid-1990s, graduates have been engaged in a diversity of pro-fessional positions , including in local, regional and national governments, con-sultancy firms, national and international NGOs, United Nations programmes, in-ternational aid agencies, multilateral or-ganisations, think tanks and prestigious universities.

international, national and regional levels in a variety of contexts, the course seeks to provide participants with an understanding of the processes generating social change and with the skills and abilities to respond to such change. The course retains the DPU’s long-standing preoccupation with planning for and with action. Its approach is critical, analytical and comparative.

Many graduates return to their previous jobs while others embark on new careers after the course. Examples of organisations where recent graduates are employed in-clude: Asian Development Bank; Christian Aid (UK and West Africa); EMBARQ India - The WRI Centre for Sustainable Transport; Entremundos, Guatemala; Food and Agri-culture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Heifer International; Inter-American Development Bank (IADB): International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); Medical Research Council HIV/AIDS Programme (Uganda); Overseas Develop-ment Institute (ODI); Save The Children; UN-ESCO; UNICEF; United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA); UNHCR.

%*$#!*#$&' The course is structured so that 75 per cent of the taught com-ponents (90 credits) are devoted to the core subjects of development admin-istration and planning and 25 per cent (30 credits) to an option from a range of modules on offer. The core modules pro-vide the theoretical and methodological components of the course while the op-tional modules allow students to exam-ine different problems and approaches in accordance with their own particular interests.

Course participants will be required to read, write essays and complete in-dividual and group project work, with teaching involving lectures, seminars, workshops, case study analysis and a field trip abroad. Field trip destinations to date have included Egypt, Ghana, Uganda and Ethiopia.

Student performance is assessed through course work, examinations and a final dissertation report.

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