Policy Education

The APD Institute is a unique environment for public policy education. Our team members collaborate with international partners and decision-makers through research and classwork to ask and answer the most important questions in our country. After intense practical training, we hope that you will gain strong skills in communication, decision making, policy formulation, policy implementation, and policy evaluation, cost-benefit analysis, basic statistical knowledge, political economy, as well as teamwork and leadership. These skills will not only prepare you for excelling in government but also in the private sector. At APD Institute, you will gain these rewarding skills while also joining other members of the program to focus on the public policy issues that you are most passionate about.

After more than two decades of successful operations in the field of peace and development research; the Academy feels ready to share its experience and management expertise to assist in another facet of the peace-building and development process in Somaliland. Therefore, the APD Institute of Public Policy aims to become a locally designed and sustained research and educational center that provides policy practitioners, public servants, and young professionals with relevant and practical public policy courses that reflects the needs and demands of their field with the ultimate goal of promoting and supporting the development of healthy and relevant public institutions. Currently, the Institute plans to run Summer and Winter Programs in 2021.