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Consulting

  • Strengthening the Public Administration Education in Afghanistan

    Since April 2012, the Potsdam Center for Policy and Management at the University of Potsdam supports the project "Strengthening Public Administration Education in Afghanistan" funded by the German Foreign Office and the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit” (GIZ). As part of the academic component of the project five public administration faculties at the universities in Mazar / Balkh, Kabul, Herat, Kandahar and Nangahar are built.

    The team led by the project leader Prof. Dr. Harald Fuhr and Prof. Dr. Werner Jann assists the Afghan universities both in academic and organizational matters. The project includes the training of the Afghan lecturers as well as suggestions on the establishment and development of the faculties, for example in the further development of the curriculum or the development of context-sensitive teaching materials. The content is geared to the wishes of the Afghan universities with a particular focus on the expansion of South-South cooperation as well as on building a sustainable academic network that endures after the end of the project in 2014. From this perspective, every year several coachings are held by professors at different locations in Afghanistan. Supplementary one-week intensive coachings are held in cooperation with local government academies in Ankara (TODAIE) and New Delhi (IIPA).

    The Afghan lecturers are also supported in their professional training, e.g. on applications on further education courses or participation in international conferences.

     

  • Monitoring the Impacts of Decentralizing Health Governance in Nepal (completed)

    In 2009/2010 the Government of Nepal has designed the Local Health Governance Strengthening Programme (LHGSP) to foster the decentralization process and to strengthen health governance at the local level. The LHGSP is supposed to serve as a pilot reform project and is implemented jointly with development partners, among them the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in four districts of Nepal (Dang, Doti, Kailali, Surkhet). The overall rationale of the LHGSP was to improve the quality of health services at the local level through better matching of services to local preferences and through increased autonomy of local bodies and service providers, as well as improve local governance through increased capacities of local administrations and more active local participation. A team of PCPM researchers (Bastian Jantz, Julka Jantz, Markus Seyfried) under the lead of Harald Fuhr and Werner Jann was supporting the GIZ in the monitoring and evaluation of the LHGSP. This included the preparation of a feasibility study for the monitoring of the LHGSP as well as the scientific supervision of the evaluation that is conducted by a local research institute. The results of the evaluation were presented at a final conference in Kathmandu, Nepal in Autumn 2013 (GIZ: 2011-2013 - completed).

Completed Consulting Projects

  • 2016-2017: Improving the Quality of Public Policy Teaching. Advisory project with 5 faculties of Public Administration and Public Policy in Afghanistan (jointly with Werner Jann, Markus Seyfried and Julka Jantz; funded by DAAD).
  • 2016-2017: Joint Review of BMZ/GIZ Sektorvorhaben “Politikberatung in der Kommunal- und Stadtentwicklung” (Phase 2013-2017).
  • 2015-2017: Advisory project with the Administrative Office of the President (with Werner Jann, Thurid Hustedt and Klaus H. Goetz; funded by BMZ/GIZ Afghanistan Open Policy Advisory Fund).
  • 2014-2016: Advisory project with the Afghan Civil Service and Administrative Reform commission (with Werner Jann, Thurid Hustedt and Klaus H. Goetz; funded by BMZ/GIZ Afghanistan Open Policy Advisory Fund).