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Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) 2

Centre for Public Policy and Governance 3

Message from the Rector 4

Message from the Director 5

Strategic Outlook 6

Executive MA in Public Policy (1 year Program) 10

Program Structure and Curriculum 10

Program Highlights 14

Academic Calendar 15

Admissions 16

MA in Public Policy (2 year Program) 18

Short Term Courses and Programs 20

Seminars, Workshops and Conferences 22

Faculty 25

Board of Advisors 34

Facilities 35

Course Participants 37

Student Composition 43

Course Descriptions 45

Contact Us 52

Table of Contents

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Forman Christian College (A Chartered University)

Forman Christian College (FCC), a Chartered University since 2004, has a long and

distinguished history of academic excellence in South Asia. Developing leaders who

understand the value of service has been the hallmark of education at FCC since 1864. One

of the oldest institutions of higher education in Pakistan, FCC encourages its students to

pursue excellence in academics as well as contribute to the university and community at

large. The university has built a reputation for providing outstanding education through

an innovative curriculum, rigorous academic programs and dedicated faculty and sta. Its

programs are designed to teach students how to think, solve problems, communicate

eectively and be lifelong learners. Situated in the heart of Lahore, the university oers a

quiet academic environment with excellent facilities on its 108 acre green campus.

In the academic year 2009-10, FCC enrolled over 4,400 students in its university

(Baccalaureate and Masters) and college (Intermediate) programs. The four-year

Baccalaureate Honors program oers 18 majors. Graduation requirements are in the best

tradition of a liberal arts education, balancing breadth and depth of study, and

preparation for career and citizenship. At the postgraduate level, FCC currently oers

advanced degrees in Business Administration, Economics, Biotechnology and Chemistry.

On theprofessional (postgraduate) front, FCC proers a Diploma in ELT for in-service

teachers, and an Executive MA in Public Policy and Governance for experienced

professionals. The latest additions to FCC building repertoire the Elahi Building for

Business and Social Sciences and the Armacost Science Building provide a complete

range of state-of-the-art facilities for students.

The 162-strong university faculty includes 76 with doctoral degrees, most from universities

in the USA and UK. This ratio (47%) of PhDs is one of the highest for any university in

Pakistan. Each year, FCC conducts extensive professional development workshops to assist

its faculty members in making the transition from conventional teaching models to a more

proactive system in which they have full responsibility for course planning, syllabus

development, assessment and grading. Faculty links with the industry and the public

sector ensure that students get exposure to both theory and practical applications in their

studies.

The university strives to be truly representative of

Pakistan, encouraging potential students from all regional

backgrounds, faiths, ethnic groups and cultures. FCC was

the rst co-educational college in this part of the world,

and continues this tradition with female students

currently making up almost a third of the university

student body. FCCs goal, through its curriculum and

co-curricular programs, is to develop leaders for Pakistan

who live by its motto: BY LOVE, SERVE ONE ANOTHER.

For more information, visit the Forman Christian College

website: www.fccollege.edu.pk

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Centre for Public Policy and Governance

The concept of the Centre for Public Policy and Governance (CPPG) was initiated by the

Rector of Forman Christian College in conjunction with the Director, CPPG, in July of

2007. This was followed by development of a strategic plan and building of an advisor y

board for the Centre. Envisioned as an academic, research and training institute, the rst

member of the research team was hired in spring of 2008 followed by the launch of

Faculty Seminar Series and the Research & News Quarterly publication. Over the course

of the year 2008-09, the Centre supported by university faculty and its advisors

formulated the curriculum for the rst-of-its-kind Executive MA in Public Policy, geared

towards training public, private and non-prot sector managers with several years of

experience under their belt. Additionally, CPPG organized academic seminars and

workshops, brought out regular issues of the Quarterly, published an Occasional Paper

and co-hosted an International Conference during the same time. The strength of the

faculty increased to four permanent and four visiting fellows, and support

administrative sta increased to two. Infrastructure developments included a small but

growing library, a 20 workstation computer lab and an Executive Seminar Room.

The Executive MA in Public Policy program started in the Fall of 2009 with a class of ten,

comprising of public and non-governmental sectors. Classes were held four days a

week while at least one academic seminar was organized every month. In addition to

hosting more than ten academic seminars, CPPG also organized three policy dialogues

on Civil Services Reform, Agriculture Policy Implementation and Urban Policy while

initiating its short-term training series with a 3-day course on Public Financial

Management. The overall student experience included theoretical frameworks and skills

development, enriched by the multitudes of activities at CPPG. The students are now

preparing to nalize their research proposals having gone through a rigorous process of

discussions with their supervisor and presentations to the faculty. CPPG looks forward

to producing quality research through its course participants as it gears for the next

academic year with greater faculty strength and an increased vigour to generate

research and contribute towards evidence based policy making in the country.

For more information, visit the CPPG website: cppg.fccollege.edu.pk

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Message from the Rector

After being in Pakistan for several years with a

better understanding of the ground realities,

I thought that it was important to use the

expertise of academia to work directly with

government ocials to develop wise public

policy, and to make a dierence in the life of the

broader community. Although the university

directly transforms the lives of individuals

through our educational programs, we, at FCC,

sought additional ways to make a contribution

to the broader community of which we are a

part. I have personally seen the impact of such

an initiative earlier in my career as President of

an academic institution where practitioners and

theoreticians came together to research and

devise public policy. The reason for establishing

the Centre for Public Policy and Governance

and our proposed Academy of Senior

Professionals at Forman Christian College ts

well with this vision as academics and

experienced practitioners can work together to

share their wealth of knowledge with students

to impart professional experience, pursue

academic excellence and enrich research.

Dr Peter H. Armacost

Rector

Forman Christian College

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Message from the Director

The Centre for Public Policy and Governance at

FC College aspires to promote inter-disciplinary

teaching, academic and policy relevant

discourse on Public Policy and Governance.

Since its inception in July 2007, the Centre has

initiated and sustained its Monthly Seminar

Series, inviting eminent scholars and policy

makers, while encouraging FCC faculty to share

their research in the Series. These deliberations

are shared with the stakeholders and public

through CPPGs Research and News Quarterly.

It is only after due deliberative and consultative

process that we launched the Executive MA in

Public Policy in Fall 2009. The program is

multidisciplinary, integrated with the Centres

research focus, and is designed to impart

professional skills with theoretical rigor,

employing and enhancing practitioners rich

experience and knowledge base. We are

condent that by 2012 this program will be

followed by a regular two years Masters and a

PhD program. Be a pioneer and join the

program with the spirit that you can contribute

towards redesigning the policies in your

country.

Dr Saeed Shafqat

Professor & Director

Centre for Public Policy & Governance

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Strategic Outlook

Mission

The Centre for Public Policy and Governance aspires to promote and disseminate

teaching and research on public policy that centre stage citizen welfare, distributive

justice and participative development, humane governance and consultative and

transparent policy process in Pakistan.

Rationale

CPPG is designed to combine the functions of teaching, training and research (Think

Tank) through Masters/Doctoral degree programs in Public Policy all these would

be interwoven and complement each other. This is our response to the growing

concern among civil society activists, parents and citizens that public policy and

governance issues have not received the attention they deserve from the politicians,

elites and policy makers in Pakistan and there is a general dearth of understanding on

how to adopt and pursue appropriate public policies. CPPG aims to serve this

neglected and undeveloped program in Pakistans academic setting and polic y

framework.

Goals and Objectives

The Centre aims to nurture a new generation of Pakistani scholars and policy analysts

and envisions contributing towards training and skill development of public ocials,

and non-prot and business managers. CPPG aims to set a research agenda and

design degree programs to attract scholars, experts, professionals and potential

participants from the states of Greater South Asia (Central Asia, Gulf region and South

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To full these objectives, the Centre actively pursues its activities in three key domains:

As an academic institution, it imparts quality education based on an innovative

curriculum designed with domestic needs in mind.

As a policy think tank, it conducts applied and evidence-based research to

inform the policy process. In addition, i t organizes academic conferences,seminars and workshops for advocacy and raising awareness on public

policy issues.

As a training institute, it devises and conducts short term skills oriented trainings

for public sector professionals.

Through its academic programs, multidisciplinary research agenda, collaborative

research initiatives, seminars, conferences, training workshops, publications and

outreach, CPPG plans to provide technical and conceptual skills, policy analysis and

formulation in a broad spectrum of Public Policy and Governance areas including:

Policy challenges in Education, Health and PopulationPolicy, Institutional Analysis and Capacity Building

Policy Evaluation and Implementation

Leadership, Strategic Thinking and Change

Conict Resolution and Management

Defence (Security) and Foreign Policy

State, Society and Governance Challenges

Legal system, Criminal Justice and Policing

Terrorism, Democratic Pluralism, Human rights

Energy and Transportation

Migration and UrbanizationRural Development and Agriculture Policy

Environment and Global Warming

Globalization and Corporate Governance

Economics and Public Policy

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Planned as an advanced degree in social sciences, the program would initially impart

theoretical grounding and problem solving skills in two

Concentration Areas:

Governance, Democracy and Institution Building (GDIB)

Environment, Demography and Urban Change (EDUC)

These concentrations are further elaborated upon on page 12.

The diverse and applied nature of the program encourages participants to discuss and

debate their experiences, innovative ideas and vision.

A Research Thesis under active faculty guidance on an actionable policy issue

provides the opportunity to develop a policy paper to re-design public policy and

inuence the policy process of your interest and passion.

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Concentration Areas

Governance, Democracy, Institution Building (GDIB)

Improving governance, constructing representative, transparent

and accountable government, enhancing civil society and reviving

and revitalizing institutions remain critical public policy issues in

Pakistan, like many developing countries. This concentration will

explore various topics: from civil services reform to local bodies;

autonomy and independence of judiciary to interface between

bureaucracy and political parties in a democratic setup; issues

pertaining to productive functioning of provincial and national

assemblies to training of legislators; skill development of

bureaucrats, and the role of Election Commission of Pakistan. The

class discussion would involve both theoretical aspects as well as an

understanding of ground realities.

Following is a representative list of courses in this concentration:

Federalism and Decentralization

Political Institutions and Policy Process

Governance and Management in Multicultural Society

Leadership theories, Governance & Management Change

Organization Theory & Human Resource Management

Political Economy of Public Policy

Environment Policy, Demography, and Urban Change (EDUC)

Environmental decay, rising population and accelerated

urbanization is visible in Pakistan. Demographic change is

phenomenal. The country has a population of 170 million and

growing at a rate of

2% per annum. Forecasts of demographic transition in Pakistan raise

concerns about citizen security, environmental decay, challenges of

urban governance, energy self suciency, water conservation,

employment generation, peace, security, governance and the list is

unending. Population is a human resource that demands

investment in improving its quality, productivity and skills.

The concentration will explore the nexus between environment,

urban change and demographic transition, specically exploring

questions in population strategy that helps in managing

demographic transition and is not simply a Family

planning/Reproductive health issue but a core national issue, which

has implications for the very survival and ecient functioning of the

Pakistani nationstate.

Following is the course list of the concentration:Environmental Issues and Public Policy

The Informal Sector

Demography & Security

Urban Growth, Environment & Security in South Asia

Gender & Population

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Proposed Curriculum

Required Courses Concentration Elective* Courses Skills Development Courses

Semester - I

Semester - II

Semester - III

Introduction to Public Policy

Introduction to Statistics,

Economics and Accounting

Concepts

ICT Concepts and Tools for

Policy Makers

Research Methods

Research ThesisWriting and Communicating

Public Policy

Cost Benet Analysis

GDIB

> Political Institutions andPolicy Process

> Organization Theory and

Human Resource Management

EDUC

> The Informal Sector

> Demography and Security

GDIB

> Federalism and

Decentralization

EDUC

> Environmental Issues and

Public Policy

Tentative schedule; course oerings are subject to change.

* Students may select courses from one of the two Concentrations Areas, GDIB and EDUC.

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Program Highlights

Distinctive Features

Skills-based Curriculum that blends theoretical, skills specic and real life

experiences into an integrated module.

A Motivational instructional methoddevelops Leadership Skills empowered to

combine professional skills with natural instincts to excel and lead.

Driven by the logic ofTechnological Change, implying the future of any

organization public, private or non-prot would be aected by technology.

The Current trends in information technology and their possible usage to further

policy objectives would be explored.

Instructional Methods

Most courses oered are 3 credit hours each but may have dierent methods of

instruction including classroom lectures, lab sessions or interactive seminars,depending upon the nature of the course. The lecture course consists of two 1 hour

lectures a week. The lab course will have one class a week comprising of 3 hour lab

sessions, while the seminar courses will have a 3 hour class every week organized

according to the prerogative of the instructor.

Career Prospects

Upon completion of the degree, the graduates will be able to enhance and

consolidate their careers in numerous arenas including potential experts of a specic

or set of public policies, program coordinators for provincial and local governments,

inter-agency managers, data and policy analysts, and government liaison managersfor private businesses. The program aims to sharpen the skills and knowledge of

program participants bringing change in attitude, orientation and leadership

qualities.

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Academic Calendar *

Orientaon September 20 21

Classes Start October 4

Eid Break November 15 19

Midterm Week December16 22

Winter Break December 23 January 2

Finals Week January 31 February 4

Term Break February 5 Feb. 13

Classes Start February 14

Midterm Week March 28 April 5

Easter Break April 22 25

Finals Week May 30 June 3

Term Break June 4 June 19

Classes Start June 20

Thesis Due August 26

Spring Semester February 14 - June 3

Summer Semester June 20 - August 26

Fall Semester

October 4 February 4

For the latest update, please refer to: hp://www.fccollege.edu.pk/admissions/baccalaureate/academic-calendar

*Tentave schedule (based on 2010-11); subject to change in accordance with the university calendar.

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Admissions

The diversity of participants from varied academic and professional backgrounds will

be the strength of the program. The CPPG will assess all qualied candidates and

assign a pre-term guide to bring participants up to a required level in the subject area

of concern.

Admissions Criteria

A prospective participant has to full the following criteria to apply for the program:

At least 4 years of work experience (public/non-prot/private sectors)

Minimum 16 years of education from a HEC-recognized institution

Complete and submit an application form

Attested copies of degrees and certicates

Standardized test score (GRE/GMAT/NTS-GAT/CPPG devised)

N.B.: Applicants not taking the CPPG-devised test would have to take a special

essay based test in lieu.

Following consideration of the above, the admissions committee will conduct

interviews of short-listed candidates for nal selection. Given the small size of the

class, the interview process will allow CPPG to assess the k nowledge and skill level of

each candidate and thus assign a personalized pre-term guide to each candidate.

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Open House July 22

Applicaon Deadline August 10

CPPG Admission Test August 17

Interviews August 25, 26, 27

Decision Noficaon September 08

Fee Structure for the Entire Program PKR

Admission Fee 6,000

Security Deposit (Refundable) 10,000

Tuion Fee (for 3 semesters) 165,600

Total 181,600

Admissions Timeline*

PKR

Tentave fees (based on 2010-11); subject to change in accordance with university policies.

Tentave schedule (based on 2010-11); subject to change in accordance with university policies.*

For the latest update, please refer to the PostGraduate secon @ hp://www.fccollege.edu.pk/admissions/fee-structure

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MA in Public Policy (2 year Program)Projected Program Start Date: Fall 2012

The Centre for Public Policy & Governance plans to start its 2-year program the

regular MA in Public Policy in the Fall of 2012. The program will be designed forfresh graduates or young professionals who want to pursue a policy

research-oriented or decision-making career in public or private sectors. For the rst

batch, CPPG plans to oer concentrations in the following two areas:

Governance, Democracy and Institution Building (GDIB)

Environment, Demography and Urban Change (EDUC)

Program Structure

The program will constitute four semesters requiring the completion of 16 courses

(48 Credit Hours), successful completion of summer internship and a nal thesis.

Students will be advised to select their area of concentration at the time ofadmission to allow for proper management of the program though a nal decision

can be made after the completion of the 1st semester. Following is the proposed

structure of the program:

5 Required courses

6 courses in selected area of Concentration

4 Skills Development courses

1 Independent Study course

Approved Summer Internship

Research Thesis

Prospective Students

The program will be open to all students with 16 years of education. CPPG will

accept a diverse student body with background in humanities, social sciences,

natural sciences, engineering and management. All prospective students will be

tested for general policy aptitude through evaluation of social science concepts,

comprehension and composition ski lls before their acceptance to the program.

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Career Prospects

MA in Public Policy degree holders will be able to pursue and choose from several

career options; as potential experts of a specic or set of public policies, as ocials

and prospective decision makers of public, private enterprises or NGOS, as data and

policy analysts, as policy aides to parliamentarians and as managers of privatebusiness to liaison with public ocials. The program aims to sharpen the skills and

knowledge of the graduating students bringing change in attitude, orientation and

leadership qualities.

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Short Term Courses and Programs

Short Term Training Programs

The third domain of CPPG activities include short term skills-oriented trainings

focused, but not limited to the public sector.

The capacity of government ocers is key to improved policy making and ecient

service delivery. But with existing responsibilities, ocers can not take too much time

o of work. CPPG Short Term Trainings are specically geared for such audience

organized into a series of 2-3 full day training modules. Each Series such as Public

Financial Management focuses on a specic subject area while modules in the series

are designed both according to topics as well as level of responsibility of the audience.

CPPG recently initiated the Public Financial Management Series through the oering

of the rst module PFM 001: Chart of Accounts, Basic Budgeting & Financial

Control for Drawing and Disbursement Ocers (DDOs) at its premises fromFebruary 22-24, 2010. Twenty-ve DDOs from ve government departments

participated in the 3-day training. In addition to exercise-based training, participants

were provided with a comprehensive course pack including relevant printed and

digitized reference material. CPPG plans to use the participants feedback to both

improving on the training module and formulating a process for continuing education

of government ocials.

Diplomas and Certicate Programs

CPPG is currently working on developing a series of diplomas and certicate programs.

These would be tailored to include multiple modules in a particular subject area and

thus placed between short term courses and a full-time academic program.

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Seminars, Workshops and Conferences

In pursuit of developing dialogue, debate and evolving possible consensus on policy

issues, CPPG organizes a Monthly Seminar Series in which distinguished scholars,

policy analysts, professional and practitioners of public policy are invited. The seminars

are meant to be inter-disciplinary, spreading across broad policy themes and topics inNatural and Social Sciences and Humanities.

In addition, various talks, workshops and conferences on specic policy themes are

held throughout the year bringing together stakeholders from state, academia and

civil society. CPPG students are encouraged to participate in these intellectual

discourses, meant for enhancing their overall learning experience.

Research Seminars

CPPG seminars bring together academics, policy makers, students and civil society

members for a two hour discourse on issues relevant to the Centres thematic interests.The following list provides an overview of the subject areas covered in recent seminars:

US Exit Strategy from Afghanistan: What are the implications for Pakistan? with

Mr Ahmed Rashid

Food Security in Pakistan: Challenges and Policy Choices with Mr Sartaj Aziz

Rethinking Development Strategy with Dr Nadeem ul Haq

Crises of Governance: Changing dynamics of civil military relations with

Dr Ayesha Siddiqua

Afghanistan Policy: Challenges of Reconstruction and Development with

Mr Mark Ward

Food Security Issues in Pakistan with Dr Kauser A. Malik

Democracys true meaning with Dr Robert A. Johnson

Media and Propaganda: Manufacturing Consent with Mr David Barsamian

Modernity, Post Modernity & Crises in the Muslim World with Dr Salman Sayyid

Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital and Public Policy with Mr Salman Khalid

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Collaborative Workshops

Workshops are meant for an in-depth discussion with and among stakeholders to

brainstorm policy issues or to develop a consensus on specic polic y options. Recent

workshops organized by the Centre include:

Consultative meeting on Agriculture Policy Implementation: A Dialogue among

Stakeholders held in collaboration with PARBAn academic workshop on Social Science Theories, Research and Enhancement of

Social Knowledge held in collaboration with NIHCR

A policy workshop on I mproving Governance in Punjab held in collaboration with

PRMP

A consultative session with administrators and students on Governments Policy

regarding Student Unions conducted in collaboration with SDPI

A policy workshop on Human Tracking: Challenges and Responses organized in

collaboration with IOM & Migration Research Centre

ConferencesCPPG plans to co-host an international conference every year to encourage and

facilitate student participation in such academic exchange. The Centre co-hosted the

9thAnnual Population Association of Pakistan conference on Population Dynamics and

Security: Public Policy Challenges with the Population Association of Pakistan (PAP) in

December 2008.

Field Trips

CPPG will organize an annual student eld trip to explore a specic policy issue. The

trip will be structured to provide an opportunity to students to explore the issue

through eld interaction with the environment, community and the institution.

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Dr Saeed Shafqat joined FCC in 2007 as a Professor and founding Director of

the Centre for Public Policy and Governance. Besides working on

preparation of postgraduate academic programs in Public Policy, he started

the publication ofResearch and News Quarterlyat CPPG. Since 2005, he has

also been an Adjunct Professor at the School of International Aairs and

Public Policy (SIPA), Columbia University (New York, USA). His research

articles on culture, politics, security and various aspects of public policy,

governance and civil service reform on Pakistan have been published in

journals of internat ional repute. Currently, he is the President of the

Population Association of Pakistan (PAP), a professional association of

demographers and interested social scientists. Dr. Shafqat is the elected

president of PAP for 2009-10 (2-year term), and has the distinction of being

the rst non-demographer president. He is also the current Chairman of the

Board of Governors at Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI),

Islamabad.

Dr Shafqat is a founder member and former Chairman of the Department of

Pakistan Studies (established 1973) at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.

He has served as Chief Instructor and Warden, Pakistan Civil Services

Academy during 1988-2001. Over this period, he imparted instruction and

training to over 1,500 under-training ocers (federal civil servants) who are

now serving in dierent branches of government all over Pakistan. He has

been President (1990) of Institute of Regional Studies Islamabad (and retains

the distinction of being the only academic professional to head this research

organization).

Dr Saeed Shafqat was a Fulbright Fellow for the year 1992-93, and has been

the Director of Fulbright Seminar in Pakistan for the years 1991 and 1994. He

was Visiting Professor at MAISON DES SCIENCES DELHOMME, Paris (France)

in 2000, and has also been Adjunct Professor at the Lahore University of

Management Sciences (Pakistan). He was Quaid-i-Azam Distinguished

Professor and Chair of the Pakistan Center at SIPA, Columbia University

during 2001-05. He is a regional member on the Board of Directors, Regional

Center for Strategic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has also held the post of

Chief Executive of National Trust for Population Welfare (NATPOW), Islam-abad during 2005-06, which is the principal institution of the Ministry of

Population Welfare for liaison with NGOs on family planning, reproductive

health and community development. From 2005-07, he was the Executive

Director, National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS), Islamabad, the

premier national institute on demographic and population studies, demo-

graphic and health surveys, training and capacity building. At NIPS, Dr

Shafqat led a team of professionals who managed the conduct and success-

ful completion of Pakistan Demographic & Health Survey 2006-07 (PDHS),

funded by USAID. He was also instrumental in getting the PDHS 2006-07

Preliminary Findings Report published. He is a Consultant and Master

Trainer, and has done consultancies on educational reform, governance,

institution building, electoral reform and democracy for Asian Development

Bank, UNDP, GTZ, DFID and USAID. In 2007, he conducted a training work-

shop on USAID-Pakistan Legislative Strengthening program.

His books include: Political System of Pakistan and Public Policy(1989); Civil-

Military Relations in Pakistan (1997); Contemporary Issues in Pakistan Studies

(2000, 3rd edition); New Perspectives on Pakistan: Visions for the Future (Oxford

University Press, 2007). Currently, he is working on a monograph entitled

Assessing the Dynamics of Pakistan-US Relations in the First Decade of 21st

Century and implications for the Future. His research interests include Global-

ization, Security Demographics, Governance and Civil Service Reform.

E-Mail: [email protected]

Room: E-018 FCC Ext.: 388

Dr Saeed Shafqat

Professor and Director, CPPG

PhD (Political Science), University of Pennsylvania, USA

MA (South Asian Studies), University of Pennsylvania, USA

MA (Geography), University of the Punjab, Pakistan

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Dr Mohammad Qasim brings with him sixteen years of experience in Urban

Planning, Environment and Public Policy in USA and Pakistan concentrating,

on Environmental Pollution, Urban Economics and Development, and

Capacity Building. He has done several development projects for the World

Bank, Asian Development Bank and various US State agencies. He has

designed, directed and evaluated multi-million dollar urban development

projects of aordable housing, senior living and community centres. He has

also published research in these areas.

Prior to joining the CPPG, he worked as Senior Urban Economist at theUrban Unit, Lahore, with the Punjab Planning and Development

Department. Previously, he has also worked as a Foreign Scholar under

Higher Education Commission, Pakistan, as an Assistant Professor at

COMSATS, Abbottabad. While in the US, he worked for the American

Planning Institute as Regional Director, Rockland Community Development

Council at Monsey, New York, as Community Career Development Executive

at Texas Southern University, and as Community Development Specialist at

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),

Houston. He has also worked in the Houston Independent School District

and several other noteworthy international organizations.

Dr Qasim has several publications in various journals, conference

proceedings and abstract manuals. His latest publications include a book

(2010), entitled The Rise of Commons: Menecracy Government of the People,

and a journal ar ticle Urban Design and Integrated Transport System, accepted

for publication in the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

and Trac Management, Karachi, Pakistan (Summer, 2010).

His areas of interest encompass Contemporary Urban Design, Urban Policy,

Infrastructure Development, Urban Theory, Environmental Monitoring,

Non-traditional Security and Environmental Degradation due to Urban

Sprawl, Youth Development, Gender Equality and variety of related topics.



Dr Mohammad Qasim

Associate Professor

PhD (Urban Planning & Environmental Policy), Texas

Southern University, USA

Masters of City Planning, Texas Southern University, USA

Master of Public Administration, Texas Southern

University, USA

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Following an 11 year career in the technology industry where he

concentrated on Business Process Analysis, Project Lifecycle and Program

Management, Haque completed his graduate degree from SAIS, Johns

Hopkins University in the Social Change and Development concentration.

He has since conducted policy research in the technology, education and

transport sectors. He is currently the co-editor of CPPG's Research & News

Quarterly journal. His research Interests include the Informal Sector and the

Role of ICT for Governance & Development.

His recent research publications include: Training Needs Assessment for Masters Level Programs in Public Policy,

Public Administration & Governance (December 2009)

Rickshaw & Environmental Pollution: Assessing Punjab Government's

Rickshaw Policy(June 2009)

Project Assessment & Policy Recommendations for Demand Based

Training Project, PITB (December 2007)

Market Assessment & Policy Recommendations for S oftware Technology

Park(June 2007)

E-Mail: [email protected]: E-003 FCC Ext.: 395

Aneel is a Fulbright Scholar with seven years of teaching and research

experience in academia (Forman Christian College, Rensselaer Polytechnic

Institute), policy institutes (SDPI) and NGOs (WWF, Caritas). He has published

academic papers on climate change in reputed international journals, and is

currently researching The Challenge of Sustainable Well- Being: Development

and Climate Change Adaptive in the Vulnerable Areas of Pakistan as part of his

doctoral studies. His research interests include Ecological Economics Values

and Policy, Climate Change, Conict Management, Technological Studies

and Business Management.



Raheem ul Haque

Research Fellow

Masters in International Public Policy, SIAS, Johns Hopkins

University, USA

BS (Computer & Electrical Engineering), Purdue

University, USA

Aneel Salman

Associate Research Fellow

Doctoral Candidate (Ecological Economics), Rensselaer

Polytechnic Institute, USA

MS (Ecological Economics, Values & Policy), Rensselaer

Polytechnic Institute, USA

MA (Economics), University of the Punjab, Pakistan

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Khurram has worked for several private, public sector and international

organizations both within Pakistan and abroad in diverse areas ranging from

industrial development and management, policy design, program

evaluation, education, commercial & consumer banking, and IT. He has been

involved in policy design and planning projects for local government and

several public organizations in South Australia. Besides undertaking

research projects in the national industrial sector, Khurram was engaged inthe UNIDO-led SME capacity building exercise through cluster development.

He was also involved in the Pakistans Innovation Initiative jointly managed

by the Competitiveness Support Fund and Higher Education Commission in

2010, aimed at formulation of the National Innovation Policy. Prior to

embarking on his graduate studies, he served as a core member of the

Global IT department of a leading Swiss bank, and was also involved in the

management of quality development and certication processes of a large

national industrial enterprise. In terms of his academic career, he has been

part of the teaching sta at LUMS and Carnegie Mellon University.

His research interests are diverse and include: Socio-economicDevelopment, Industrial Development, Public Policy Design, Program

Evaluation, Enterprise Competitiveness, Innovation & Technology

Management, Information & Communication Technologies and Strategic

Planning & Management. He has also published research within his areas of

interest.



Khurram Waqas Malik

Research Fellow

MS (Public Policy & Management), Carnegie Mellon

University, USA

MS (Total Quality Management), in progress, University of

the Punjab, Pakistan

MPhil (Industrial Management), University of

Cambridge, UK

BSc (Hons.) (Computer Science), Lahore University of

Management Sciences, Pakistan

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Mr Masud has over thirty-ve years of experience in the public and private

sectors. Until recently, he was the Managing Director of Pakistan Credit

Rating Agency Limited (PACRA), the rst credit rating agency of Pakistan.

Founded in 1994, he was its founder Chief Executive till 2007. In recognition

of his services within the public sector, the President of Pakistan conferred

the prestigious award of Sitara-i-Imtiaz upon him as part of Pakistan Civil

Awards 2010 on March 23, 2010.

Javed started his professional career as an investment banker before joining

the Income Tax Group of the Civil Service of Pakistan. His public service

career involved economic decision-making in the Ministry of Finance,

Planning Division and Production Division. He has served as the Senior V.P. of

a development nance institution Bankers Equity Limited, as Member,

Corporate Law Authority, and is currently serving as Member, Provincial

Finance Commission. He has extensive nancial sector and privatization,

consulting experience with the World Bank, IFC and United Nations. His

research interests include: Privatization and Deregulation Process, Rural

Enterprise Financing, Financial Intermediaries in Pakistan.

E-Mail:[email protected]


Afzal is a career civil servant who joined the Government of Pakistan in 1990,

and worked for the provincial governments of N.W.F.P. and Balochistan as

well as the Government of Pakistan. Besides eld experience, has served in

the provincial departments of Education, and Planning and Development,

and the Establishment Division of the federal government. Has worked

closely with donors such as the International Fund for Agricultural

Development, the Asian Development Bank, and the Japan Bank for

International Cooperation, and also has experience of working directly for

such organizations (IFAD, ADB, UNOPS, UNDP, and WB). He has also worked

in Vietnam in the area of rural development and in Afghanistan on civil

service reform. His areas of interest include Institutional Development and

Civil Service Reform. Some of his selected publications are listed below:

Governance (Cyan, Latif). Background Paper for the Nor thern Area

Strategy for Sustainable Development, 2003, IUCN Pakistan.

Northern Areas Strategy for Sustainable Development, 2003. compiled

by Tariq Z. Khan, Musharraf R. Cyan, Ir fan Tariq and Afzal Latif, nalized

and edited by Scott Perkin, IUCN Pakistan.

A Whole New Playing Field or a Whole New Game?, 2005. Geoghegan,

Tighe and Latif, Afzal, Sic, et al. Institute of Development Studies Student

Bulletin, November 2005, Volume 1 Issue 2.



Javed Masud

Advisor and Visiting Fellow

MA (Finance & Economics), Boston University, USA


Afzal Latif

Visiting Fellow

MA (Governance & Development), University of Sussex, UK

BSc (Eng) (Polymer Science & Engineering), Queen Mary

College, University of London, UK

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Mr Tariq Mahmud has been a career civil servant with a vast and varied

experience of policy formulation and implementation in key areas spanning

over three decades. He has ser ved as Federal Secretary Communications,

Secretary Interior, and Secretary Food & Agriculture. He has been posted on

key positions in provincial governments. He served as Additional Chief

Secretary, Planning and Development department in N.W.F.P., Principal

Secretary to Governor Punjab, Senior Member of the Board of Revenue,

Secretary Home, Health, Information and Culture, and also served as

Secretary to Chief Minister Punjab. Previously, he was posted as

Commissioner Bahawalpur, and has also served as Deputy Commissioner in

various districts. Before joining the civil service, he worked in the Pakistan

Television as News Producer. As Federal Secretary, Communication, he had

been closely involved with mega infrastructure projects across the country.

During his stint in the Interior ministry, considerable headway was made on

Counter Insurgency Measures, border controls and managed migrations. He

represented Pakistan at several regional and multilateral moots, and has

closely interfaced with donor agencies. He was unanimously elected as

Chairman of the Asian Highways network conference under the auspices of

UNESCAP at Bangkok.

Mr Mahmud has a deep academic bent. His areas of interest include

ethnicity and change management issues of institutional stability and

legitimacy in authoritarian regimes and newly evolving democracies. He has

been visiting faculty at the Civil Services Academy since 1987, teaching Local

Government and Rural Development, and also designed a module on Rural

Development for NIPA Lahore in 1990 for in-service participants from African

Countries. In addition to this, he received a Certicate of Achievement in

Designing & Managing Integrated Agricultural & Rural Development Projects

from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Washington, D.C. (USA).

A prolic writer, his creative works cover both ction and novel with six

collections to his credit. His article State Structures and Rise of Ethnicity in

Pakistan Some Policy Implications was published in NIPA Journal, Lahore

(1991). He is widely travelled, and also speaks Bengali and Swahili.



Tariq Mahmud

Visiting Fellow

MA (Rural Development), University of East Anglia, UK

LLB, Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

MA (International Relations), University of

Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Fareed belongs to the Civil Service of Pakistan, and is presently serving as

Director in Directorate General Audit, Punjab, Lahore. He has over 24 years of

professional experience in public and private sectors. Prior to joining the

civil service in the Audit and Accounts Group, he worked as an Electrical

Design Engineer in an energy consultancy rm, NESPAK (Pvt.) Ltd.

During his career as a civil servant, he has accumulated extensive experience

in the areas of public sector nancial management, regulatory audit and

performance evaluation of public sector enterprises. He has also been

involved in policy formulation for various autonomous Punjab Government

organizations.

During his studies at Columbia, he worked on a project/workshop for a

Shanghai-based NGO, Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, to

develop a training module on local energy and environment policymaking

for the mayoral training program operated by the China Ministry of Housing

and Urban-Rural Development. He has conducted an environment audit of

the countrys largest botanical garden and public park the Jinnah Gardens,

Lahore. The report was published in the Annual Audit Report of Pakistan.

His areas of research interest include: Environment and Energy Policy

Making in Developing Countries, Project Development and Finance,

Economics and Quantitative Analysis, Public Financial Management, Cost

Benet Analysis, and Foreign Direct Investment.



Fareed Mahmood Chaudhry

Visiting Fellow

MPA (Public Policy), SIPA, Columbia University, USA

MBA (Finance), University of the Punjab, Pakistan

BS (Electrical Engineering), University of Engineering &

Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

Moeed is a civil ser vant, a KPMG certied course designer, and a trainer for

the Department of the Auditor-General of Pakistan, who joined the Pakistan

Audit and Accounts Service in the year 2000. With a natural bent of mind for

training and teaching, he was a team member of many international

trainings and workshops, and was awarded numerous Certicates of

Excellence by esteemed institutions such as The Islamic Development Bank,

The Commonwealth Secretariat, and The Civil Services Academy, Lahore. He

has ten years of teaching and training experience to his credit, including

designing and conducting courses in Financial Audit, Performance Audit and

Audit of Privatization.

Moeed exudes unparalleled passion for public policy research and believes

in nding pragmatic, yet creative, solutions through a combination of

theoretical frameworks and practical experience. He considers this a

panacea for the policy ills that plague the systems within developing

countries, particularly Pakistan. He looks forward to pursuing a doc toral

degree in the coming years.

His areas of interest/concentration include: Evidence-based Policy Making,

Designing Social Security Systems, Human Resource & Strategic

Management, Demographics, Project Management (with a special focus on

improvement in service delivery and institutional development processes),

Operations Management, Information Systems Management, Qualitative &

Quantitative Research Methodologies, and Informal Sector in the Global

Economy.



Moeed Ali

Visiting Fellow

MPA (Public Policy & Management), JFK School of

Government, Harvard University, USA

LLB, University of the Punjab, Pakistan

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Saima describes herself as a business and communications professional,

who has been working on knowledge management and improving

communications for more than 15 years. She has worked with several

non- governmental as well as private sector enterprises in these domains.

Her core competencies include (i) bridging gaps between communication

and business development, and (ii) designing, development and evaluation

of course modules. She has been involved in teaching and consulting

simultaneously, and has worked with reputed enterprises for achieving theirstrategic goals and objectives.

Her areas of interest include:

Eective Communication

Articulating Policy and Strategy

Impact of Technology on Business Lingo



Saima Bhaur

Visiting Fellow

MA (English), Government College, Lahore (University of

the Punjab), Pakistan

BA (English Language & Literature), Kinnaird College

(University of the Punjab), Pakistan

Aneela is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of

English at Forman Christian College. She has been involved in teaching

English language and literature for the past ve years. Prior to joining FCC,

she was working as a teaching faculty member at the Lahore College for

Women University (LCWU). Aneela has participated in and conducted

numerous workshops on various research and language topics including

research methodology and writing, language and communication skills. In

addition, she was recently selected by FCC for participation in theInformation Fluency Workshop held in Louisiana in 2010. She has also

published several articles in various journals and magazines, and is an active

member of several university committees and societies.

Her research interests include Literary and Media Discourse Analysis, Literary

Theory, Applied Linguistics, Research Methodology, Curriculum Design,

Critical Thinking, Communication Skills, English Language Teaching and

Academic Writing. Aneela envisions teaching as an on-going research

process. She believes that a teacher has to be a research savvy to impart

quality education among students.



Aneela Bushra Maqbool

Visiting Fellow

MPhil (Applied Linguistics), Kinnaird College

for Women, Pakistan

MA (TESOL), Kinnaird College for Women, Pakistan

MPhil (English Literature), Government College

University, Lahore, Pakistan

MA (English Language & Literature), Government College

University, Lahore, Pakistan

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Board of Advisors

Dr William B. Eimcke: Founding Director of the Picker Center for Executive Education of Columbia Universitys School of International and Public Aairs.

Barrister Shahid Hamid: Former Governor of Punjab; currently manages his own law rm.

Dr Salman Humayun: Deputy Chief of Party, Education Sector Reform Assistance Program (ESRA).

Dr Akmal Hussain: A development economist specializing in action research. He also runs a private manufacturing rm, Sayyed Engineers (Pvt.) Ltd.

Dr Saba Gul Khattak: Former Executive Director, SDPI; specializes in comparative politics and state theory.

Dr Anjum Khurshid (MBBS, MPAFF): Assistant Professor and Director of the Health and Behavioral Risk Research Center at the University of Missouri.

Khushnood Akhtar Lashari: A District Management Group (DMG) ocer, currently serving as the Federal Secretary of Health.

Dr Naushin Mahmood: Senior Researcher at Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), specializing in demography and population issues.

Javed Masud: Former Managing Director and CEO of the Pakistan Credit Rating Agency Limited.

Jean-Luc Racine: Director of Research at National Centre for Scientic Research (CNRS) and member of the statutory CEIAS (Center for Studies in India and

South Asia), School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris; focuses on geopolitics of South Asia.

Kamran Rasool: Former Chief Secretary Punjab, Federal Defence Secretary and Chairman, PIA.

Babar Sattar (LLM): A Rhodes Scholar who writes on social, political and legal issues and runs a law rm AJURIS.

Dr Shafqat Shehzad: Associate Professor, COMSATS University, Islamabad, and former Research Fellow at SDPI; specializes in health economics.

Dr Ayesha Siddiqua-Agha: A security studies expert, specializing in defence decision-making and civil-military relations in South Asia.

Dr Rukhsana Zia: Former Director, Directorate of Sta Development (DSD), Punjab; specializes in curriculum and management issues in education.

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Facilities

Computer Lab

The Computer Lab is designed for hands-on Information Technology related training. It can

accommodate up to 20 participants, and is fully equipped with latest oce management

and data analysis software, select data banks and internet facility.

CPPG Student Lounge

The lounge is exclusively designed to cater to the independent or group study needs of

Executive MA students. It will also serve as an informal discussion area for students and

faculty.

Executive Seminar Room

Equipped specically for round-table policy dialogs, seminars and workshops, the executive

seminar room serves as the ideal location for all interactive programs. It is equipped with

multimedia, video conferencing and recording facilities.

Executive Lounge

The executive lounge with its plush furniture serves as a meeting place for students, faculty

and guests in a formal setting.

CPPG Library

CPPG has a small but growing library for researchers with select journals, national surveys

and latest books in the Centres focused research areas.

FCC Facilities

All other FCC facilities including the university library, computer labs, seminar rooms,

auditorium, sports facilities (including a swimming pool) and cafeteria are accessible to the

students of the Centre.

Student Societies @ FCC

Students at FCC have a choice of participation in over 30

societies where they can pursue their interests in literature,

dramatics, art, debates or music; or demonstrate their social

responsibility through societies like Rotract, Earthwatch and

Red Crescent. Those interested in sports can choose from

tennis, table tennis, track, swimming, basketball, football,

cricket and hockey. FCCs future plans include a Campus

Student Centre which will provide meeting, dining and

recreational facilities.

For more information on FCC facilities, please visit:

http://www.fccollege.edu.pk/student-life

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Waseem has over 10 years of practical experience in Management and

Development working for national and international organizations in public

and private sectors in Pakistan. He has worked with UNDP, World Bank and

other organizations and is currently working as Coordination Ocer for One

UN program in Punjab. His aliated work in Nepal, Sri Lanka and Philippines

in community participation and local governance has added to his INGO

experience. His core areas of NGO experience include project development,

decentralization and governance, advocacy and fundraising. His public

sector experience includes work with Planning & Development Department,

Government of Balochistan and Local Government Department,

Government of N.W.F.P. He has also undertaken consultancy/trainings

assignments on a wide range of subjects, including Managing Non-prot

Organizations, Team Management, Advocacy and outreach, Project

Management, Institutional Development and Organizational Strengthening,

Training for Transformation (ToT), Social Mobilization, Result Based

Management etc. for NGOs, Government ocials and dierent institutions.

He has served as member BoD for Participator y Development Forum,

Canada and Center for Research, Planning, and Development and has hands

on experience to manage and develop Non-government Organizations in

Pakistan. He has also participated and represented Pakistan in several

international conferences and workshops.

CPPG motivated me to join the course that would help me to develop analytical

skills and gain insights needed to plan and formulate policy, and to manage,

organize, and implement operations in the organization and public arena. The

Centre has been instrumental in harnessing my interest in policy and practice to

pursue managerial and leadership career through in depth study in select area

of concentration and research opportunity during the study.

Muhammad Waseem Ashraf

Manager Field Operation, UNDP

MBA & MS (Project Management), Shaheed Zulqar Ali

Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Pakistan

A health specialist by profession, Dr Babar Alam has multifaceted experience

working in private and public health sectors with governmental and UN

organizations. As part of his current professional engagements at WHO, he

piloted community-based Health Risk Pooling Systems in Murree and

Mardan. Prior to joining the WHO, he has worked as Senior Programme

Manager at NCHD, District Programme Ocer at UNFPA and as Deputy

Program Director for APPNA SEHAT. During his tenure with UNFPA in

Muzaagarh, the innovations lead comprehensive EmONC services reached

the level of 95% (as per UN process indicators) through the district.

Dr Alam has a keen interest in academic analysis and discourses that

approach health and development, globalization, governance and related

issues with multidisciplinary perspectives encompassing socio-economic,

political and anthropological dimensions. His academic interest is further

focused on socio- epidemiological research. He has also written a paper on

the perception of women on underutilization of public sector health

facilities for natal care. His areas of expertise include primary healthcare

project planning, management and implementation, monitoring and

evaluation, community development, advocacy and trainings.

As a Public Health Physician, I considered it necessary to get acquainted with

processes of policy formulation and analysis, being big challenges for Pakistan

and other developing countries. In my opinion, CPPG at FCC, under stewardship

of Dr Saeed Shafqat, would be the right place to learn this art. Now, at the end of

course work and before embarking on research work, Im glad to have learned

the basis of policy formulation and the associated underlying analytical and

economic dimensions of policy decisions. In future, I hope that the knowledge

and art of exploring the policy dimension I learnt at CPPG would help me to

further my career growth not only at national but also at the international level.

Dr Muhammad Babar Alam

Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (MNCH) Ocer, World

Health Organization Punjab

MS (Public Health), Health Services Academy, Quaid-i-Azam

University, Pakistan

MBBS, University of the Punjab, Pakistan

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Maqsood brings with him over 22 years of experience in various sectors.Prior to his latest position, he ser ved as Deputy Secretary (Admin & Finance)

in the Public Policy & Change Management Wing and Deputy Secretary

(Establishment), Higher Education during his tenure with the Government of

the Punjab. His extracurricular interests include studying human behaviour,

reading books, magazines, teaching and gardening.

I joined CPPG to acquire theoretical knowledge of the policy process and

governance and learn the best practices prevalent in the world in these areas. At

the end of coursework, I can now say with condence that it has been a great

experience.

Farid has over 12 years of experience in the public sector. He joined the civilservice in 1998 and was inducted into the Trac department, reaching the

level of Assistant Commissioner Trac involved in trac management

within an urban environment. He has since worked with city and district

governments, being involved in administrative issues at various levels and

coordinating with CDGL departments. He has also been involved in various

capacities with the Lahore Development Authority, looking at issues of land

encroachment and allocation. His current engagements include

organization of protocol related functions vis-a-vis high prole foreign

delegations. He is also In-charge of the Complaint Cell in the Commissioner

Oce at divisional level, and the Crisis Management Cell at divisional level

keeping liaison with the control centres of PHA, SWM and District Police.

CPPG attracted my attention for two primary reasons. Firstly, my late

grandfather, Sheikh Nazir Ahmed, was a Formanite in 1894. Secondly, FCC is a

prestigious institution and the Centre is headed by an illustrious scholar, Dr

Saeed Shafqat, whose repute and experience in this eld needs no introduction

at the international as well as national level. Learning from the immense

knowledge and invaluable experience of such scholars of excellence in their

elds, was indeed a motivating factor for joining the department.

The experience gained from the department is of tremendous utility to me both

in terms of academic learning and also as a means of enhancing my abilities toperform job in the public sector as an administrator. Courses covering theories

relating to organizational behaviour, HRM and political processes involved in

policy making and linkages established by our instructors with our present jobs

were highly useful for as they gear towards better understanding of conceptual

clearance and rationale behind specic decisions taken in various organizations

and in dierent policies of the government. I can say that I have gained valuable

insight into the policy process via class participation and tutelage from faculty.

Sheikh Farid Ahmed

Chief Protocol Ocer, Commissioner Oce, Lahore,

Government of the Punjab

BBA, Oklahoma State University, USA

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Muhammad Maqsood Ahmad

Deputy Secretary, Public Policy & Change Management

Wing, S&GAD, Government of the Punjab

MA (English), University of the Punjab, Pakistan

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Farooq comes from the rst batch of the Provincial Management Service

(PMS), a new civil service introduced in Punjab as a corollary to the

civil-service- reforms initiative. Since his induction, he has served as Section

Ocer in LG & CD, Agriculture, and S & GA Departments. He has also

contributed his services as District Monitoring Ocer, Punjab Education

Sector Reforms Programme (a World Bank funded project), and is currently

performing duties as Special Judicial Magistrate for the Lahore Development

Authority. His professional interests revolve around areas of institution

building, and public development and service delivery issues especially

within the education and health sectors. In his own time, he is interested in

literature, semi-classical music, landscapes and folk wisdom, and enjoysmountain trekking, short-story writing and attending the village Chaupal.

I joined CPPG as I aspired professional grooming and an urge to gain formal

knowledge about the Public Policy process. Despite the fact that, at times, it felt

too hectic to smoothly run the course parallel to ocial obligations, studying at

FCC has been a great learning and socializing experience among an amazing

set of colleagues and inspiring faculty members. The very orientation has

worked on our minds in an unfelt manner and, today, we think dierently,

though all of us may not necessarily feel so. Professional life coupled with

EMAPP-studies at FCC has entailed a stretched out hiatus but the Brigadoonwill keep on reappearing, one hopes.

Muhammad Farooq Akmal Awan

Special Judicial Magistrate, LDA, Government of the Punjab

MA (English), University of the Punjab, Pakistan

BS (International Business Administration), Schiller

International University, Switzerland

Dr Adnan Saeed is a medical doctor by profession, and has over 13 years of

work experience in various sectors. He is currently working as Secretary

Punjab for the Pakistan Red Cross/Red Crescent Society. His area of specialty

is disaster management, and he has been involved in conduction of various

relief and rehabilitation operations such as earthquake in AJ&K and N.W.F.P.

in 2005, Balochistan Cyclone Relief Operation, IDP Crisis Mitigation and

Balochistan Earthquake, etc.

The reason for joining CPPG was to enhance professional and academic

capabilities so as to formulate policies according to the need and strategic

organizational objectives. I am glad that all what I expected to achieve from theprogramme especially the learning experience was enlightening and the

devotion of the faculty and the sta members was exceptional. I am sure that

the tools learnt at CPPG would open new avenues of career enhancement in

general and better orientation of future policy making in particular.

Dr Adnan Saeed Akhtar

Secretary Punjab, Pakistan Red Crescent Society

MBBS, University of the Punjab

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Since completing his MBA, Ali has gained useful experience in nance andadministration in various organizations. A nance specialist by profession,

he is currently working on a project with The Urban Unit, Lahore. His

professional experience entails working on preparation and scrutinizing of

development projects in urban development sectors, preparation of

monitoring formats and work plans, and conducting meetings with major

donors (including The World Bank, Asian Development Bank and JICA

missions) regarding development projects proposals. His nancial

experience includes working on municipal nance, improving and

implementing the Urban Immovable Property Tax (UIPT) system, local

revenue assessment and collection system, and performing assetmanagement and nancial management in the public sector. His work has

assisted city district governments in improving their existing local revenue

generation systems and tax assessments. Recently, he was involved in

conducting a detailed situation analysis on improving assessment and

collection of the current UIPT system and creating linkages with a GIS

application. He was also the focal person for developing and implementing

the Revenue Management Information System (RMIS), integrated with the

GIS application, which was designed to facilitate government departments

in the assessment and collection of local receipts (on prot/loss basis).

I was already working in a public sector policy-making organization, which is

involved in formulating eective policies for urban development. Thus, I decided

to join this institute to enhance my knowledge and skills in the policy process

and augment my practical policy analysis experience through training in key

policymaking dimensions under the tutelage of qualied and experienced

professors at FCC.

Muhammad Ali Nazir

Research Analyst (Municipal Finance), The Urban Unit,

Planning & Development Department, Government of

the Punjab

MBA (Finance), Government College University,

Faisalabad, Pakistan

Farah is primarily involved in human resource management and enforcementof regulations in accordance with prevailing policies, laws and rules of the

Government of the Punjab in her department. Her professional career

comprises over 8 years experience in public sector working at federal,

provincial and district government levels, holding signicant oces in

departments and donor funded projects. She has served as Project Director

of Women Political School, a joint venture of Ministry of Women

Development and UNDP, through which she managed to train 16,000 elected

lady councillors. Through her experience, she has gained the expertise to

design and launch community mobilization campaigns, conduct extensive

eld research, and manage projects involving gender mainstreaming andwomen economic empowerment issues. She has also attended several

trainings on gender mainstreaming, administration and nance, violence

against women and social mobilization. Her main area of interest is social

work; therefore, she maintains close contact with various NGOs.

My aim in joi ning CPPG was to gain a better understanding of key government

policies, and enrich my skills to review them both from the perspective of

academic rigour and best practices in the world. Through gaining such

expertise, I can give valid feedback on related policy issues. To understand the

core policy issues, I undertook conceptual learning in key policy dimensions

including analysis of policy process, centralization and decentralization issues,

policy processes in political institutions (both local and global), empirical

methods in policy analysis, economics, research methodology, cost benet

analysis and organizational and human resource management. I believe that

such useful combination of skills and knowledge will not only augment my

career growth, but will also benet my department through utilization of my

expertise gained therein. I now look forward to meeting the challenges faced by

my department through eective utilization of my skills.

Farah Saleem

Assistant Director (Administration), Directorate General

(Social Welfare, Women Development and Bait-ul-Maal

Department), Government of the Punjab

MA (Social Work), University of the Punjab, Pakistan

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Naveed has over 11 years of experience in internal audit of provincial heads

of the tax department. As Assistant Director (Enforcement & Audit), his

primary duties entailed conducting internal audit and inspection of all levies

of the department throughout Punjab in order to check, trace and detect

issues of leakages and embezzlement in the government revenue, and

enforcing rules and regulation of department. Presently, he is working as

In-charge of the Complaint Cell of his department. He has an academic

interest in economics, social sciences and environment, and plans to

undertake research in these areas. He aspires to be a conscientious citizen,

with strong value and work ethics.

The reason to join the CPPG was not well planned but when an opportunity

came to me for study at CPPG through the Government of Punjab, I immediately

made up my mind to join taking into consideration two key elements. Firstly, the

course was well structured which could prove rewarding in my future career, and

secondly, the repute and prestige of FC College which was now embarking on a

new course for mid career professionals. I hoped that a degree from a

prestigious institution could lead me towards a better future.

I have always been motivated to seek knowledge and learn something new from

life experiences, interaction with other people and nature. I am enthused topursue higher studies in social sciences, particularly economics, upon successful

completion of this degree. I believe that a man should be l ike a ower, who

spreads fragrance to everyone so as to deliver comforts to the needy people. I

hope that a degree from CPPG will assist me considerably in my future career.

Naveed Ahmad

Assistant Director (Enforcement & Audit), Excise & Taxation

Department, Government of the Punjab


ACMA (Foundation), Institute of Cost and Management

Accountants of Pakistan (ICMAP)

Mansoor has been working at SAP-PK, an NGO working as member of South

Asian civil society movement that strives to improve marginalized sections

of society and inuence policies in favour of these sections. As Program

Ocer, he is involved in various capacity building programs at SAP-PK. He

attended various trainings during his professional tenure on multiple areas

including gender and development, non-violent communication and

actions, child rights and juvenile justice, conict management, resolution

and transformation, research tools, and communications skills. He is also a

master trainer in the elds of Conict Resolution and Peace Education. As

part of his training responsibilities, he wrote a manual on conict resolution

through relationship building, and conducted an initial round in all

provinces of Pakistan. He also successfully produced a pool of resource

persons from all over Pakistan for Peace Education. Most of his activities at

SAP-PK relate to working with rural areas and rural population. He is

particularly sensitized regarding the issues faced by the agriculture sector.

He is involved in assisting the rural populace in formation of groups and

institutions at village, district and provincial level so that their contribution

and voice can be raised at national level.

I joined CPPG to enhance my knowledge about policy making and policy

analysis so that I could deliver to the poor and marginalized segments of societyconnected with the agriculture sector and to build a momentum for a farmers

movement which could inuence policy at the national level. Furthermore, I aim

to get maximum knowledge and skill from the faculty of CPPG.

Mansoor Ahmad

Program Ocer, South Asia Par tnership Pakistan (SAP-PK)

MA (Political Science), University of the Punjab, Pakistan

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Student Composition

Total students: 10

Average Experience: 11 years

Students with masters degrees: 70%

All students have completed at least 16 years of formal education; somehaving a 4 year bachelors degree, while others have a 2 year bachelors

degree with a 2 year masters degree. Furthermore, several students also

possess a postgraduate degree, thereby completing 18 years of education.

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20%

20%60%

Sectoral Composition

Government

NGO

International Organization

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Required Courses

601 Introduction to Public Policy

In the real world the critical question that we tr y to address is: what is to be done? This course would aim to provide participants with general approaches for

asking and answering that question in the policy world. It would consider several key components of the policy analysis process: dene problems, select criteria

to evaluate alternatives, develop policy design in alternatives and examine the trade os. Considerable time would be spent in constructing policy design and

selecting criteria for evaluation. Participants would be encouraged to explore dierent components of the policy analysis framework. The participants would be

expected to write a position paper at the end of the course.

602 Introduction to Statistics, Economics & Accounting Concepts

This course is designed to provide basic statistical, economic and accounting knowledge to course participants, and will act as a pre-requisite for all higher level

economic and analytical courses. It will cover statistical concepts from both descriptive statistics (including measures of central tendency and variability,

probability, correlation and causality), and inferential statistics (including sampling, hypothesis testing and regression analysis); economic concepts including

GDP, growth rate, factors of production, capital accumulation, economic productivity and human capital, and open economy among others; and nancial

accounting concepts including analysis of income statement, balance sheet and cash ows (this does not entail bookkeeping techniques). It also imparts

hands-on training for statistical and analytical calculations through the use of computing software. The course does not require prior background in any of

these elds, but it is fast paced using discussions based on economic and nancial articles to explore these concepts.

603 ICT Concepts and Tools for Policy Makers

The purpose of the course is to inform and train students in various information and communication technologies (ICT) at play in both the public and private

sectors. The rst part of the course will provide hands on sk ills to participants in commonly used technologies (word processing in English; Urdu, if time

permits), document packaging, spreadsheets, presentation, correspondence and research) for improving personal as well as institutional productivity.

Instruction will be lab oriented and exercises will include practical work examples. The second part of the course will explore Management Information Systems

and their evolution from standalone to enterprise systems. The participants will explore the project lifecycle of MIS using project management and process

analysis and gain an understanding of how the internet and mobile telephony has created opportunities for governance and development.

604 Research Methods

The primary objective of the course is to familiarize the participants with the basic tools to conduct research. The thrust would be on qualitative aspects of

research and report writing. It will expose the participants to such basic issues; how does one dierentiate between facts and values, knowledge and reason?

How does one go about identifying archival and non-archival sources? What are the variables; independent, dependent, spurious and what is a hypothesis?

How do you identify a research problem? What is the dierence among, descriptive, relational and causal research. How does one dierentiate between

conceptual and operational denitions? How do you design a research proposal? How relevant is theory in developing a research proposal? How do you

prepare a questionnaire? What is the dierence between open ended questions and multiple questions? What are the interviewing techniques? What are the

structured and participant unstructured questionnaires? And how focus group discussions are conducted? The participants would be exposed to various

methods of research; case study, participant observation, content analysis, comparative studies to develop research design and submitting a research proposal.46

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Skills Development Courses

605 Writing and Communicating Public Policy

Thoughtful and reasoned analysis of Public policy issues is necessary but not a sucient requirement for implementing good public policy. The course aims to

develop professional public policy writing skills and familiarize students with the major written formats used through out the policy making process; for

example, from background/white papers to legislative histories and one pagers for executive and political decision makers. The course will also concentrate on

communication through short paper exercises in writing, speaking and debating, to inculcate condence among participants to express themselves and explain

complex policy ideas in clear, concise and simple language. It will also examine real world cases on how some policies have succeeded while others failed.

Participants would be encouraged to take a position on how the opponents and proponents of these policies ar ticulated their arguments and to write memos,

conduct meetings, work in groups, and make presentations and to articulate their position in print and electronic media.

606 Policy Analysis: Policy Design

This would be an advance level course a follow-up of Introduction to Public Policy. It would provide a survey of the broad eld of public policy both as an

academic discipline and as a eld of practice. The course would discuss and analyze the required public policy frameworks. The ongoing debates about

motivational and institutional foundations of public policy would be explored. The course would cover a wide range from dening policy problems to setting

up of the policy agendas; and to the issues around delivery, implementation and evaluation of public policies. The course would draw on case study material

from dierent policy areas and present perspectives on how concepts and theories shape public policy. The participants would be required to write a paper to

demonstrate that they understand concepts, decision making and can deliberate upon policy options.

610 Cost Benet Analysis

The course focuses on the theory and practice of cost-benet analysis. The purpose of the course is to inculcate skills for evaluating public projects and policies.

Students will learn to dierentiate between economic and nancial evaluation by including economic concepts of opportunity costs, social costs and shadow

exchange rates in the analysis, thereafter deliberating on the main challenges involved in accurately measuring them. The rst part of the course will

concentrate on theory and concepts, while the second part will evaluate existing public projects through a case study method. The course requires an

understanding of economic concepts.

611 E-Governance and Technology Policy

This course will build upon the ICT Concepts and Tools for Policy Makers course to discuss how technologys use in day to day tasks such as letter writing,

correspondence, presentations, research, process work ow and information management can be used to improve departmental productivity. The course wi ll

discuss in detail concepts of automation, process re-engineering and their organizational implication. The course will equip student to reassess organizational

processes in view of available technologies using case studies of government departments and explore ways of transforming bureaucracies into citizen services

providing organizations. The course will also discuss technology project life-cycle to prepare students to manage technology projects for their organization.

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612 Quantitative Techniques for Policy Making and Administration

With Introduction To Statistics, Economics and Accounting Concepts as a pre-requisite, this co

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