22nd Mid Career Management Course

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   Lecture Discussion (LD)
   

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   Panel Discussion (PD)
   

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   Tutorial Discussion (TD)
   

4. 
   Workshops (W)
   

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  Market Forces /Price Mechanism
  
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  Market Structures and Function
  
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  Basic Micro economic concepts and analysis for public managers
  

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  Aggregate Demand and Supply
  
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  Business Cycle
  
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  Balance of Payments
  
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  Basic concepts of Growth and productivity
  
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  Inflation and unemployment
  
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  Basic concepts of taxation
  

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  Concept of Monetary Policy
  
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  The interaction of Monetary and Fiscal Policy
  
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  Monetary Authority and inflation
  
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  Monetary Policy Rule
  

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  Current economic issues
  
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  Issues of domestic and external Debt
  
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  Future economic outlook for Pakistan in the global economic order and the influence of major global/regional factors
  

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  Poverty, measuring poverty line and poverty statistics.
  
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  Options for an effective action plan to alleviate poverty in the country.
  
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  An evaluation of poverty alleviation policies and strategies.
  
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  Impact of BISP on poverty alleviation.
  

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  Support prices of agricultural products (wheat).
  
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  Provision of Inputs on Subsidized rates.
  
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  Market price, competition and issues of hoarding /role of middleman at the operational/implementation level.
  

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  Analyze challenges confronted at the operational level
  

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  Agreements on Agriculture , Textile & Clothing (ATC) and its impact on Pakistan
  
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  Issues/challenges regarding Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) viz-a-viz agriculture
  
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  Short to medium term recommendations
  
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  Advantages of GSP plus
  
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  Bali Agreement
  

To introduce Regional Dynamics of Trade w.r.t. China, Afghanistan, Iran, India, SAARC, ASEAN, CAR etc.

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  To understand conceptual and practical peculiarities of Project Management Cycle for effective Project Management.
  
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  To understand and formulation of implementation strategy
  
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  To understand the tools of M&E. NPV, IRR, CB
  
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  Concepts relating to Entrepreneurship in public sector
  

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  Concept of proposal
  
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    Logical Framework, Matrix, LOE, Work Plan and preparing costing sheet of the proposal
    
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  Technical Proposal & Concept paper writing
  
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  Proposal writing and concept paper development on public policy (National & Provincial Policy)
  
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  Financial Proposal Writing
  

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  To create understanding of the concept of Public Private Partnership.
  
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  To understand methods and modalities in infrastructure and social sector development intervention through PPP
  
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  Advantages and pitfalls of Public Private Partnership.
  
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  Analysis in terms of growth and development at the public level vis-à-vis private sector
  

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  Federal Taxes and its scope & utility.
  
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  Provincial & Local Taxes and its scope & utility.
  
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  Problems and issues related to governance in collection & enforcement of Federal, Provincial & Local taxes.
  
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  Evaluate services sector under VAT after 18^th Amendment & issues involved.
  

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  Role and working of Regulatory Bodies.
  
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  Impact on improving quality of public service.
  
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  Develop relationship between policy and implementation.
  

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  Legal Provisions about budget making and rules & regulations.
  
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  Budget making in MTBF mode (hands on): the approval process, budget releases, management, coding arrangement, accounting, auditing and role of PAC.
  

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  What are Public Procurement Rules: their scope, applicability, principles of procurement, bidding, and qualification of suppliers, evaluation criteria, stages and conditions?
  
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  How is transparency ensured and what are the problems confronted at the operational level?
  

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  Management of public finances, disbursement, sanctions and allocation.
  
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  Role and responsibility of the Public Accounts Officer & Drawing & Disbursing Officer.
  
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  Internal Controls
  
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  SAP-R3 Hands on.
  

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  Introduction to Statistics and Its Application in Decision Making
  
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  Describing and Interpreting Data: Statistical & Graphical Methods
  
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  Mean, Median, Mode, Ratio & Standard Deviation etc and their Application
  
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  Sampling Techniques for Feed Back & Monitoring of Public Service
  
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  Testing of Hypothesis ,Application of data and computation of results
  
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  Three session of 3 hours each with hands on practice using Excel and SPSS
  
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  Data Analytics
  

(03 sessions) Total = 9 hours

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  Financial statements; public and private sector
  
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  Strategic level acquaintance with tools of financial management
  
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  Analysis of financial statements to evaluate corporate body, several market plan, profitability & strategy for competing in market
  
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  Financial Ratios
  

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  Security challenges of economic corridor
  
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  Political consensus
  
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  Challenges of Energy Projects
  
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  Rationale & scope of CPEC
  
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  Implementation Issues
  
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  Economic viability & Impact
  

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  To familiarize participants with international and national RTI laws
  
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  To discuss the rationale and importance of RTI legislation
  
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  To equip participants with implementation tools
  

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  Module-1: Descriptive Evidence
  
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  Module-2: Commissioning Evidence
  
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  Module-3: Delving Deeper – using Evidence
  
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  Module-4: Systematic Approaches to Policy Decisions
  
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  Module-5: Cost-Benefit Analysis
  
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  Module-6: Impact Evaluations
  

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