Best Practices in Legal Aspects of Consumer Protection and Regulatory Restrictions

The scope of regulation of competition and consumer protection has been a matter of concern to many governments and their parliaments.

The debate has now shifted to the negative impacts on innovation and competition that come from such a restrictive approach, hence the contemporary approaches to best practices in legislation and/or legal matters. The key point is that best practice does not imply more regulation, rather improved legislative objectives, scope and nature of regulation in legal services.

Strategic Policy Making at Regional & Local Government Levels

The professional skills requirement of government for policy-making has become highly practical and this programme is designed to look at the environment in which policy is created, how it is shaped and some of the key characteristics of good policy such as outcome focused, innovative and joined-up policy making.

It also provides a practical training environment to look at the essential skills for policy development.

Disaster Prevention & Management Strategies

Disaster management is not necessarily a full-time activity. Indeed, for most people in the field, concerns for disaster issues form only a part of their total responsibilities.

Similarly, this programme is not designed for only full-time professional disaster managers; rather it is intended to be useful even for individuals who expect to be active only during some aspect of disaster-related operations.

Management & Development of Sustainable Green Projects

Provides participants with a detailed, cutting-edge green techniques and methods, it also provides a systematic guide to project managers on how to maximize resources and get the most out of limited budgets.

It will analyse proven techniques and best practices in green project management, including risk and opportunity assessments.

Design & Implementation of Community Based Counter-Terrorism

This specialist programme will emphasise on the need for policy makers and practitioners to reflect on the usefulness of recent initiatives that they are engaged with, particularly in relation to how community-targeted or focused they are.

It will cover very recent developments, relevant legislation and case studies, as well as the “CONTEST 2” Counter-Terrorism strategy and security planning for the recent 2012 Olympic Games.

Advances in Contemporary Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) Strategies

The course is facilitated by an authoritative and highly respected team of experts in the field with pool of experience in the practical aspect in the field, which has become a fast and cost saving approach to justice delivery in the UK, EU, Canada, South Africa and America.

The course includes a range of features designed to boost delegates’ understanding of the key points, such as sample documentation, flow diagrams, tables and examples drawn from a range of different types of practice including the implementation of the EU Directive on Mediation.

Strategic Resource Mobilisation for Sustainable Development

The course is a specialised guide to helping government and non-government bodies in developing strategies to mobilising funds in a sustainable manner.

It provides a clear and practical guide about how to mobilise funds and other resources, and in doing so, becoming a financially selfreliant entity.

Design & Implementation of a Sustainable Gender Management System

The specialist course is an executive programme that guides delegates through a series of steps necessary for sound and productive system for gender mainstreaming.

The system is a comprehensive network of structures, mechanisms and processes for bringing a gender perspective to bear on all government policies, plans, programmes and projects.

Result Based Monitoring & Evaluation for Development Projects

It is common to find development practitioners who need M&E, but don’t know how to set up an M&E system, or how to make it work well and provide the information needed for decision makers.

This detailed, practical programme ex-plains the skills and steps for making a monitoring and evaluation system that works effectively.