Australia Awards – South Asia & Mongolia (the Program) is seeking a cost-effective training program for up to 20 participants. This Short Course will be delivered via blended delivery over six months, commencing in January 2025 and completing no later than June 2025. 

The purpose of this Short Course is to equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and tools is to be able to describe the optimal processes for good practice policy development; these processes may support agenda setting, stakeholder mapping, the use of evidence, policy formulation, anticipated implementation issues, risk identification and budget considerations.  

Participants should develop an understanding how to: 

• Interpret a range of research, identify research gaps, and key findings for policy formulation; 
• Utilise analytical and interpretative skills to better use evidence and research;  
• Develop timelines, milestones and quality assurance processes for commissioned research to meet policy demands;  
• Effectively engage and collaborate with researcher and knowledge procedures through a common agenda to inform sound research based policy;  
• Utilise the action plan model and research products associated with the Medium Term Development Plan to effectively feed into the creation of policy briefs across Sri Lanka focus areas;  
• Draft a policy recommendation or brief that:  
  • Is accurate and based on a strong research/evidenced based foundation;  
  • Is accessible, concise and well communicated; and,  
  • Is up to date and meets the needs of the range of internal and external stakeholders.