Four-month, part-time programme in Policy, Data & Behaviour Change

LokNeeti: Policy, Data
and Behaviour Change
ADMISSIONS FOR THE CLASS OF MARCH 2023

CREATING LEADERS
FOR POLICY ACTION
LokNeeti programme was launched in January 2022 by the Indian School of Public Policy. The Lokneeti programme of
ISPP is designed to democratise public policy discourse in India. Using a hybrid model of training, LokNeeti offers
courses that focus on Data Analysis, Project Monitoring & Impact Evaluation, Design Thinking and Behaviour Change.
The 4-month programme is designed to engage policy aspirants from around the country in an attempt to impart core
public policy education in English/Hinglish.
It consists of 6 courses, 3 workshops, and 1 week of in-person classes. Our students are encouraged to apply their skills
and new learnings to analyse policy issues using the lens of design thinking and behaviour change. Dr Parth J. Shah,
Co-founder, ISPP and Shailesh Pathak, Director & Professor of Practice, ISPP are the sutradhaars of LokNeeti. After the
success of the first 2 batches, the next batch will commence on 01 December 2022.
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LOKNEETI SUTRADHAAR
Dr Parth J. Shah डॉ पाथ जे. शाह
Co-founder, ISPP
Dr Parth J. Shah is the Co-Founder of the Indian School of Public Policy. He is also the Founder of the
Centre for Civil Society (CCS), a New Delhi-based market-liberal think tank that advances social
change through public policy. Parth's research and advocacy work focuses on the themes of
economic freedom, choice, and competition in education, property rights approach to the
environment and new public management. He was a member of the education task force of the
governments of Delhi and Karnataka and served on the Senate of the Central University of Himachal
Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. He holds a PhD in economics and had taught at the University of Michigan
and been a visiting faculty at JNU, Delhi and MS University, Vadodara.
Shailesh Pathak शैले श पाठक
Director & Professor of Practice, ISPP
Mr Shailesh Pathak joined ISPP in July 2022, after 19 years in the private corporate sector and 17 years
in the IAS as part of government. Most recently he was with L&T (Larsen & Toubro) from 2017-2022,
where he was CEO of L&T Infrastructure Development Projects Limited, Chennai. He started his career
in 1986 with the ICICI group and has also worked with IDFC (Infrastructure Development Finance
Company), among others. In his government stints, he served as Secretary to the state government
and MD of two companies in industries and infrastructure. He has been part of the G20 group of
nations' Business grouping, B20, since 2016 as a member of the Finance & Infrastructure Task Force.
Since 2012, he has been part of the BRICS Business Council, where he co-headed the infrastructure
group in 2020. He graduated from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi and Indian Institute of
Management, Calcutta, apart from an LLB degree, a Diploma in Business Finance and a Leadership
programme at the University of Oxford. He has numerous publications on cities, infrastructure,
finance and public policy over the years.
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Four-months hybrid programme in Policy, Data & Behaviour Change
Mission of Lokneeti
Democratise policy education in India, break
language and geographical barriers
Build local capacity in data, impact evaluation and
behaviour change
Bring the talent & commitment of policy enthusiasts
to public service
Help graduates aspire to a different career
trajectory by linking them at the state and national
level
Why should you Join Lokneeti ?
In a short span of 4 months, learn the subjects of
policy, design thinking, data, project monitoring &
impact evaluation, and behaviour change.
Providing new career options to the students
Explore public policy career options in government,
corporates, consulting firms, think tanks and CSOs
Understand local needs and engage in evidence-
based policy
Improve the effectiveness of policies through
application of behaviour change and nudge
Build state capacity in data, project monitoring &
impact evaluation and behaviour change
communication
Skill focused course
लोकनीतित का ल?
भारत म नीतित शिशा का लोकतंीकरण, भाषा और भौगोलिलक
बाधाओं को तोड़ना
डेटा, भाव मूांकन और वहार परिरवतन म ानीय मता
बनाएँ
नीतित उाही अ थय क तितभा और महाकांा को लोक नीतित
म अवसर देना
भाषा क बाधाओं से मु होकर ातक को एक अलग करिरयर
ेपव दान करना
लोकनीतित ोाम कर ?
4 महीने क छोटी सी अवधिध म, नीतित, डेटा, डिडज़ाइन थक ग, परिरयोजना
निनगरानी और भाव मूांकन और आचार परिरवतन के विवषय को जान
छा को नए कै रिरयर का विवक दान
सरकार, कॉरपोरेट्स, परामश फम, थक ट क और सीएसओ म
सावजनिनक नीतित कै रिरयर विवक का अेषण कर
ानीय जरूरत को समझने और सा-आधारिरत नीतित म संल होने
क सीख
नज/वहार परिरवतन के माम से नीतितय क भावशीलता म सुधार
डेटा, परिरयोजना निनगरानी और भाव मूांकन और वहार परिरवतन
संचार म रा क मता का निनमाण
कौशल क त पाम
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STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAMME
16
12 3 1
Weeks
12 Weeks for
Coursework
3 Weeks of
Practicum
1 Week of
in-person classes
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FEATURES OF THE PROGRAMME
INTERDISCIPLINARY
The programme will enable students
to use data, policy and behaviour
change communication to analyse
and solve policy issues
ACTIVE MENTORSHIP
Students will be mentored by ISPP
faculty and over a hundred
alumni and current scholars in
their fields of interest
PRACTICUM
A specially designed policy exercise
to encourage critical thinking, data
analysis, and behaviour change
communication
HYBRID FORMAT
There is a component of
In-person Classes for 3 days at the
beginning and at the end of the course,
in which students will get to visit and
attend the classes at the campus. They
will also get to interact and network with
the wider ISPP community
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COURSES & WORKSHOPS
Project Monitoring and Impact Evaluation
Design Thinking
6
COURSES
Governance and Public Administration
Behaviour Change
Economics & Politics of Policy
Data Analysis & Management
3
WORKSHOPS
अनुसंधान और ले खन
Research & Writing
नीतित नेटवक ग क कला
Art of Policy Networking
बातचीत क कला
Negotiations in Policy
1
DEDICATED
QUANTITATIVE LAB
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Curriculum Committee
Aditi Bhowmick
India Director,
Development Data Lab
Hemang Jani
Secretary, Capacity
Building Commission
Sekhar Bonu
Former Director General,
DMEO, NITI Aayog
Shamika Ravi
Vice President,
Economic Policy,
at ORF India
Shekhar Shah
Former Director General,
National Council of
Applied Economic Research
THE CURRICULUM
वहार परिरवतन
Behaviour Change
By Karan Arora
The insights by Richard Thaler and Daniel Kahneman have overhauled traditional economic
thinking, leading to the birth of behavioural economics which combines some of the best ideas in
Economics, Psychology and the other social sciences to vastly improve our understanding of the
decision-making process - both rational and irrational (Winning three Nobel Prizes in the past).
Most importantly, it provides us with practical, scientific tools to help people make better decisions,
and improve the impact of policy actions as seen through the meteoric growth of ‘Nudge Units’
globally. This course will give the students an in-depth understanding of the work done by some of
these scholars and practitioners, and prepare them to apply the new principles of decisionmaking
to improve policy outcomes.
This programme will equip participants to understand data in a manner that they can apply it
on policies and programs, helping them identify problems and make useful decisions. It will
give a clear understanding of what information data provides and what it does not ask. Ask
critical questions before analysing data - such as about the source of the data, how it was
collected, was it a census or a sample, what specific questions were asked and by whom? Look
at data to find the what may be the underlying causes of the problem? At the same time, they
will understand data will never be perfect and imperfect data is better than no data.
Understand that the marginal value/cost of more information vs marginal cost of delayed
decisions. Participants will develop a hypothesis and identifying what data visualizations can
help them validate or rule out the hypothesis.
डेटा विवे षण और संचालन
Data Analysis &
Management
By Nandita Banerjee
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डिडज़ाइन थक ग
Design Thinking
By Amit Gulati
Design Thinking or User-Centered Innovation is not the exclusive preserve of Designers – It
is an approach that deploys a high degree of empathy and collaborative spirit to solve
complex challenges and create ideas with enduring value. Some of the world’s leading
brands, such as Apple, Google, Samsung and GE, have rapidly adopted Design Thinking and
integrated it into their management toolkit. Design Thinking is now being taught at leading
universities around the world, including d.school, Stanford, Harvard and MIT. During the
programme, we will also select a public policy challenge and learn how to empathize with
users, generate ideas to solve the problem, prioritize and select and come out with a
prototype for the new solution.
The programme will allow participant to better appreciate the situations where there is
an economic rationale for Government intervention and the limitations of government
actions in policy space. The students will be able to better understand how
strengthening functioning of markets may lead to better policy outcomes, and be able to
design the appropriate tool for policy intervention. They would also come to appreciate
that while there is a ‘science’ of policymaking, the ‘art’ of policy is equally important.
Especially understand that policymaking is a slow, somewhat messy process that needs
to be rooted in the local context. Lastly, the scholars will better appreciate the constraints
of State Capacity and how they could be overcome for more effective policies.
अथशा और नीतित क राजनीतित
Economics & Politics of Policy
By Rajeev Kapoor
शासन और लोक शासन
Governance and Public
Administration
By Shailesh Pathak
This programme will introduce participants to Public Choice economics, New Public
Management, a variety of informal self-governing norms, public finance, sources and
usage of public money as well as what could be a more efficient way of achieving public
goals with minimal of public resources. Finally, the course will build on all these ideas to
offer an understanding of our our present governance model and how have we got here.
These ideas will be shared with participants with only common sense as our tool and little
to no technical knowledge previously required. All the lessons will be shared in a manner
that is easily relatable with day-to-day economic and policy affairs.
Project Monitoring and Evaluation is the assessment of how well is being implemented and
whether once implemented if it has met its stated objectives and goals and what has the
impact of the project been? This programme will introduce the participants to Project
Monitoring and Evaluation and the tools. The course will be divided into two parts: Monitoring
and Evaluation. Monitoring will focus on understanding how the activities being carried out to
implement the project can be continuously assessed to understand whether the project is
being implemented as planned. Evaluation is the final assessment that happens once a
project has been implemented to assess the project's impact. The programme will use
examples of live projects to train the students in Project M&E.
परिरयोजना निनगरानी और भाव
मूांकन
Project Monitoring and
Impact Evaluation
By Neeraj Trivedi
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THE FACULTY
Amit Krishn Gulati
Co- founder, Incubis
अमिमत कृ गुलाटी
Amit Krishn Gulati is an award-winning industrial designer, entrepreneur and educator with a
multifaceted oeuvre encompassing New Product Development, Healthcare, Hospitality, Branding, Built
Environments and Retail Experiences. Amit completed the post-graduate programme in Industrial Design
from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad in 1995 and is the co-founder of Incubis.
Karan Arora
Founder and CEO, Beast
करण अरोरा
Karan is Founder & CEO at BEAST, where he has helped leading organisations use behavioural insights to
solve complex challenges. His experience ranges over consumer preference research, pricing analysis,
experimental studies, behavioural marketing & communication design, organisational change
management, and market & industry analysis. Karan holds an MSc (Distinction) in Behavioural Economics
from the University of Warwick and is passionate about democratizing the science and creating
behavioural change products. His interests lie in strategic thinking, product design, big data and finance.
Nandita Banerjee
नंदिदता बनज
Head HR & Capacity Building, ASER Centre
Nandita Banerjee has been working in the non-profit sector for the last 15 years. She has worked with Help
Age India, Dignity Foundation, and the National University of Singapore dealing with issues of ageing. She
works with Pratham at ASER Centre with the Capacity Building Team to strengthen the knowledge and skills
of the employees. She has received training from the International Institute of Ageing in Malta, World Bank,
New Delhi.
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Neeraj Trivedi
नीरज वेदी
Head, Organizational Effectiveness, Pratham Education Foundation
Neeraj Trivedi is currently working with Pratham Education Foundation on its internal capacity building
programs as well as social protection-related projects. He earlier served as the Associate Director at
Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) India at IFMr Prior to joining EPoD India, Neeraj was with Pratham for seven
years, where he served as Head of ASER Operations, Capacity Building and HR at ASER Centre and prior to
that Operations Head for UP and Bihar programs, and in-charge of child labour related interventions in
Bihar. Neeraj graduated from the Masters in Public Administration in International Development (MPA-ID)
program at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Rajeev Kapoor
राजीव कपूर
(Retd. IAS) State Information Commissioner, UP
As an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS, 1983 batch), Rajeev Kapoor has served in the Uttar
Pradesh cadre and held senior positions in both the Central and State Governments. At Central
Government, Rajeev worked as Secretaries in different ministries, as Director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri
National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), and as Joint secretary in the Department of Personnel. He
also worked as a Governance Adviser with Department for International Development (DFID), UK for three
years. He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur (batch of 1979) and has a Post Graduate
Degree in Management from IIM (Ahmedabad). Rajeev also has a Master’s degree in Public Policy from
Princeton University, US.
Shailesh Pathak
शैले श पाठक
Director & Professor of Practice, ISPP
Mr Shailesh Pathak joined ISPP in July 2022, after 19 years in the private corporate sector and 17 years in the
IAS as part of the government. Most recently he was with L&T (Larsen & Toubro) from 2017-2022, where he
was CEO of L&T Infrastructure Development Projects Limited, Chennai. He graduated from Shri Ram College
of Commerce, Delhi and Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, apart from an LLB degree, a Diploma in
Business Finance and a Leadership PROGRAMMEe at the University of Oxford. He has numerous publications
on cities, infrastructure, finance and public policy over the years.
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LOKNEETI CLASSES AT A GLANCE
Class of December 2022
23 STUDENTS
57% FEMALE
43% MALE
LokNeeti Students
from 12 States
AVG. WORK EXP:
6.5 YEARS
Class of May 2022
25 STUDENTS
48% FEMALE
52% MALE
AVG. WORK EXP:
6.5 YEARS
LokNeeti Students
from 10 States
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STUDENT TESTIMONIALS
Kaustubh Somkant Varat
Consultant (Haryana Urban Development Authority )
The rigorous LokNeeti programme has provided me with not only a greater understanding of
public policy but also its relation with data science and behavioural change. It was a wonderful
experience to explore multiple areas of public policy and to grow academically, professionally,
and personally. The classes and faculty made studying a new discipline interesting, informative,
challenging, and rewarding. The availability of distance learning classes and the support that I
have received throughout the programme allowed me to balance my responsibilities at work
and at programme. I am grateful to all the faculty members, supporting staff, and my
batchmates for making this journey memorable.
Drishti Ahuja
2nd Position on the Dean's List
LokNeeti has been a beautiful experience for me. With courses like data management, behaviour
change, design thinking, monitoring and evaluation, the program has completed a full circle in
teaching us about intervention. More importantly it has taught us about how intervention does not
necessarily have to be from the government. The part time course became a huge part of our lives for
the past 4 months. We’ve graduated with great learnings and experience not just from professors but
from our very diverse cohort. Would 10/10 recommend to people with an interest in public policy!
Sumit Aggarwal
Best Practicum (Team Award) , LokNeeti Mashaal Award
The LokNeeti course started without any expectations but concluded with exponential learning.
This unique programme had a diverse cohort, where age was not a barrier. All of us got an
equal opportunity to meet and learn from the best minds of India (bureaucrats, researchers,
entrepreneurs, lawyers, authors, social workers, journalists, and statisticians). I would like to
thank each one of them and my cohort for sharing their knowledge and wisdom with me. As a
result, I bagged Best Practicum awards for a team with CA Rahul Gupta as well as one
individual award, the LokNeeti Mashaal. I would like to specially acknowledge the support I
received from ISPP Leadership, Dr Parth J. Shah, Dr Neeti Shikha, Luis Miranda, and Shubhashis
Gangopadhyay, as well as the team, Dhruva Mathur, Ashish Dubey, and Deepjyoti Sarma. This
journey wouldn’t have been possible without their support.
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REACH OUT TO US AT:-
For Admission Related Queries:
+91 73032 00363,
lokneeti@ispp.org.in
Programme Related Queries:
Mr Ashish Dubey
Programme Coordinator
+91 70658 37897
K-11, Hauz Khas Enclave,
New Delhi - 110016