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Diamond Teaches How to Use Impact Evaluation Tools to Make Better Policy Recommendations and Decisions

March 11, 2016

CEU School of Public Policy Visiting Professor Alexis Diamond teaches students to leverage impact evaluation for decisionmaking and project management in his Advanced Impact Evaluation course. "We're giving students the technical and strategic skills they'll need to shape policy," Diamond explained.

Gaining an Appreciation of the Complexity of the Pharmaceutical R&D Process

March 11, 2016

"What I especially liked about today's presentation is that it showed how theory works in practice," said Souran Chatterjee, CEU researcher and PhD candidate. Zoltan Kalo drew on his many years of practical experience to explain how investment decisions are made in pharmaceutical R&D. "This is a topic," he said, "that you can never read about in textbooks."

HRSI Workshop Teaches Valuable Fundraising Skills

March 10, 2016

"I learned an awful lot about a topic that is often mentioned as a 'qualifying skill' in vacancies at NGOs, and about which I did not know very much," commented Robin Fraiture (Mundus MAPP '16). The topic was fundraising. The day-long workshop was organized by HRSI (Human RightS Initiative) at CEU. "HRSI has been organizing these types of capacity-building workshops since 2007," explained Zsofia Suba, HRSI program manager.

Regional Cooperation is the Best Antidote to Unending Conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan

March 10, 2016

During a public lecture at the School of Public Policy at CEU, author and journalist Abubakar Siddique emphasized regional cooperation as the best remedy against extremism and terrorism. He noted that it would also go a long way toward resolving the complex conflict formation in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

UNDP's Marcus Brand Shares Insights on Current Situation in Ukraine

March 9, 2016

"So many crises come together in Ukraine making it a particularly interesting country to look at," said Marcus Brand, UNDP's Democratic Governance Advisor in Ukraine during a private lunch discussion with SPP students at the School of Public Policy's Global Policy Academy on March 4 (Chatham House Rule applied).