Alliance for Social Dialogue (ASD) announces the Policy Research Fellowship 2012 to potential policy advocates. This fellowship programme invites applications from young graduates interested to develop their knowledge and policy development skills in different topic areas.
Alliance for Social Dialogue (ASD) emphasizes on empowerment and capacity building for future generations of policy activists, professionals and researchers to create a pool of policy-conscious community. This fellowship provides opportunity as a response to the need for more young professionals to take part in policy-making processes. ASD emphasizes that the personal experience and commitment of young policy researchers and activists combined with the knowledge of policy-making and implementing processes will positively influence public policies and their effectiveness on the everyday life of the Nepali people.
This fellowship will advance the capacities of young policy researchers and activists to flag up contested issues of public policies create a pool of policy-conscious people thereby help hold public institutions and governments accountable for the implementation of laws and policies affecting general people with this policy fellowship programme. The fellowship anticipates to help young and talented people enter the policy-conscious and critiquing community and engage in policy-relevant research, analysis and advocacy under the guidance of experienced mentors.
The ASD Policy Research Fellowships are intended to attract recent graduates of MA and PhD programs in education, political science, legal studies, public policy and administration, media, social work and sociology/anthropology. The fellowship programme will give the fellows the opportunity to gain research experience in the policy areas listed above.
Different topic areas include:
- Impunity and Human Rights
- Effectiveness of Human Rights Organizations in Political Transition
- Transitional Justice and Question of Compensation
- Local Democracy and Local Governance
- Foreign Aid and Development
- Demographic Shift and Public Policies
- Political Parties in Transition
- Open Society Values and Nepal’s Constitutions
- Policy Research Institutions in Nepal (Institutional Settings and Methodologies)
- NGO/Civil Society and Policy Advocacy
- International Instruments and their Bearing on National Policies
- Politics of Demands and Consensus in Policy Arena
- Experts and Democratic Public Policy
- Policy Contestation and Role of Stakeholders in Education Sector
- Media Ownership in Nepal
- Radio (Ownership, Frequency, Licensing and Regulation)
- State of Online Journalism in Nepal and Related Policies
- Socio-Political Dynamics of Women’s Groups/Networks Formation
Each fellowship may last up to 4 months beginning from 15, July 2012.
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