Our approach

Our range of annual professional development workshops will give you an update on current developments on good governance, public administration and leading and managing public services, along with specialist areas such as legislative drafting and policy evaluation. We combine briefing and training sessions with practical work and case studies.

We encourage you to discuss your particular challenges and priorities with our Workshop Directors and visiting speakers so that you can assess the scope for adapting aspects of the UK and international practice to your home country.

In London we arrange visits to central government departments, local authorities, parliament, the media, non-government/civil society organisations and other public and private sector organisations relevant to your area of interest. The site visits allow you to meet key practitioners and exchange experiences, making valuable contacts for the future.

We will brief our facilitators and speakers and visit hosts about your background, objectives and particular areas of interest if your provide us with this information in advance. Case studies, practical exercises, group work and action planning sessions are included. We provide briefing and presentation materials during the workshop and for your future reference and follow-up on your return home. Refreshments and lunch are included on each working day. Our Workshop Directors will set the context for each session, provide continuity and ensure that you again as much as possible from your workshop. We are also happy to provide information about health, welfare, travel, cultural and leisure activities.

During your workshop , we encourage you to give us feedback so that we can try to make sure that you get the most out of your rime with us. We invite you to assess the value of the workshop and provide us with comments before you return home. We also contact you about six months after you have attended one of our workshops to invite you to let us know whether you've been able to use the information and ideas to improve your area of work. We welcome suggestions for changes and improvements to our services and take these into consideration when we are planning future workshops.

Before the start of the workshop, we will send you detailed information about your arrival. We can advise you about hotel accommodation and make a booking for you if you let us know in advance. We will send a car to meet you at a London airport and take you to your hotel and back to a London airport on your return home. We can administer subsistence allowances if previously arranges with your funding agency.