Research Groups

The mission of the Working Group I Education and Training Programme is aligning missions and quality is to stimulate the development of resources that will develop High Performing Schools and Institutes of Administration, around the world. SIA’s will provide instruction, research, and consultancy services that will increase the Economic, Efficient, Effective, Ethical, and Equitable delivery of public goods and services. Working Group I exists to enhance the competencies of students/participants to design, deliver, and evaluate public/Non-Governmental Organizations’ goods and services along these dimensions. Because of this mission, Working Group I is considered by many to be the “heart” of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration.

To accomplish this mission, Working Group I encourages research that will respond to the following research questions:

What competencies are required by our students/participants to meet the challenges of designing, monitoring, and evaluating the administrative structures and policy and procedures to ensure the delivery of economical-efficient -effective-ethical, and equitable public goods and services by sub-national, national and international governments and Non-Governmental Organizations?. What new skills and theories are needed by our students/participants to achieve these competencies?

What are the “best” methods for developing these competencies? For what types of students?

How do we evaluate whether our students gain these competencies?

What are the "best" ways of distributing this instructions (ie: lectures, visuals, internet, learning packages, online education, etc.) for achieving these competencies?

What are the attributes of SIA'S that are able to develop these competences on a sustainable basis?

What research needs to be carried out by staff and students on the requisites, consequences, and practices of to meet the challenges posed to achieve the state of High Performance?