The Democracy School

 

Democracy School fellows and associates combine policy or technical expertise with educational know-how and political experience.
Custom
Programmes
Drawing on the expertise and experience of our faculty and utilising the School’s innovative narrative driven action learning methodology, we are able to support a wide range of tailor-made political leadership development programmes, ranging from individual learning sessions to the setting up and running of entire ‘democracy schools’.

To discuss your requirements please contact us via our contact form.
Areas of
Expertise &
Experience
We usually build our programmes around specific thematic clusters and over time have accumulated substantial experience and expertise in a number of areas including the following:
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  • diversity, equality and cohesion
  • conflict prevention and management
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  • violent extremism and terrorism
  • community safety and human security
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  • worklessness, crime and deprivation
  • regeneration and development
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  • health and wellbeing
  • service design and improvement
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If a programme falls outside our core areas of expertise, we work with the client to identify advisers either within the client organisation or externally and invite them to join either our project team or an advisory committee. In the past, this has been the primary mechanism by which our faculty of experts has expanded.

To discuss your requirements please contact us via our contact form.
Research &
 Consultancy
Complementing our leadership development programmes, we provide a range of support services, including the following:
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  • social, organisational and policy research
  • project and programme evaluations
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  • political and educational consultancy
  • conflict management and consensus building
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  • learning process design and facilitation
  • organisational capacity building
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To discuss your requirements please contact us via our contact form.
Evaluation
Services
As a learning organisation reflection is at the heart of everything we do. Evaluations of our work focus on the following areas:
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  1. Clients – Are we following our vision and realising our mission?
  2. Methodology – Are our means in keeping with our ends?
  3. Services – Are we delivering on our value proposition?
  4. Colleagues – Are we bringing out the best in each other?
  5. Funders – Are we delivering value for money?
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Monitoring and evaluating the progress of individual learners is part of the service we provide. This ranges from programme-level monitoring and feedback, to highly personalised, value-added mentoring and/or coaching arrangements.

Evaluations of our services are carried out by fellows specialising in evaluation, unless a third-party evaluation is requested by a client or a funder.

The School also makes its evaluation capability available to clients and conducts project, programme, corporate and partnership level evaluations on their behalf. Such evaluations often form the first step in reshaping or refining a client’s political leadership development strategy and practice.

Anyone interested in this aspect of the School’s work should contact us via the contact form provided.
The School.
  Our Clients.
  Policies.

Approach.
  Philosophy & Methodology.
  Programme Design.

Services.
  Custom Programmes.
  Expertise & Experience.
  Research & Consultancy.
  Evaluation Services.

Faculty.
  Intermediation.
  Practice Development.

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