April 8 - 9, 2015
The University Club of Toronto
380 University Avenue - Main Dining Room

View the Course Outline.

What This Course is About

In the complex world of policy development and delivery, the devil awaits you in the details. Good policy advice recognizes that implementation is not a separate exercise, but one that has to affect policy formulation right from the beginning. This workshop will help participants think through: 

• Framing policy advice that takes into account question of implementation and adaptation,
• Building implementation into design: cost, procedures, capacity and infrastructure,
• Building stakeholder voices into policy design,
• Advising on different delivery options on a specific policy goals,
• Understanding the mix of delivery issues that arise in association with one achieving a single policy goal,
• Using tools such as the OPS Inclusion Lens to identify potential or existing barriers within polices to the government’s diversity goals
• Adaptation and learning in policy roll-out.

Driven by Real Experience

The learning format will be driven by real cases from within the Ontario policy memory bank – case studies that have been developed over the past three years. Practitioners will bring their perspective to these cases. Throughout participants, working through the cases and through each other, will build leading practice ideas to apply in their own environment. 

Who Should Attend

Policy professionals and others who work in a policy field that is heavily regulated and those who want to understand legislative and regulatory change as a policy tool. 

 
Course Leaders

Andrew Graham, Adjunct Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University 

Nancy Austin, Executive Lead, Wage Gap Strategy, Ministry of Labour
 

Daily Schedule

Breakfast available at 8:30am
Course begins 9:00am sharp and ends at 4:00pm on both dates
Lunch and break refreshments provided    

Event and Registration Contact
Chris Cornish
Events Coordinator
Telephone: 613-533-6217
Fax:
Email: chris.cornish@queensu.ca