Public Policy Training in the Middle East

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The Middle East Program is assessing public policy training programs across the Middle East to determine best practices and help outside donors target their efforts.

With the winds of change blowing through the Arab world, the time is ripe for supporting a more robust policy environment in the Middle East. More than ever, young people feel a stake in their country’s future and a desire to address public policy problems standing in its way. Governments, by turn, face a need to devise better solutions to these problems than they have been able to in the past.

The CSIS Middle East Program has published a report that explores ways in which external actors can target support for strengthening the public policy environment in the region. Drawing on interviews in the region and original research, it identifies common threads in terms of government receptivity to outside input and suggests ways in which that input can be targeted to have optimal effect. It also offers examples in which external actors have been able to nurture durable relationships that build and sustain policy communities in other parts of the world.

Click HERE to read a PDF of the report.