Diploma in
Social Protection for the Americas
Ignacio Irarrázaval
Director
Center for Public Policy
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
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Continuing education and teaching support in public policy
Diploma course in Public Policy
VII versions
Diploma course in Social Program Management (2010)
International Diploma course in Public Policy to Overcome Poverty, Instruments
and Assessment (2007)
8 courses in social policy issues
2 public policy workshops
Mission
“Contribute to debates on social protection and to the formulation and
implementation of social protection strategies, analyzing the impact these
systems and their programs have on reducing poverty and inequality, and
ultimately, assist in implementing improvements to program instruments to
ensure delivery of quality services and benefits for citizens who need them.”
Stages of the Diploma Course
• November 2010, Public Policy Center participates in virtual learning
“Workshop on Social Protection” organized by OAS.
• December 2010, Public Policy Center delivers proposal for Diploma
Course in Social Protection to the OAS.
• March 2011, OAS proposal approved.
• April 2011, the design process of content and virtual platform for the
diploma program begins. The following participated in this process:
- UC Scholars
- Collaboration with ECLAC
- UCVirtual Team
- OAS Professionals
- CPP Professionals
Addressed to:
Professionals working on the design or implementation
of Ministry of Social Development programs or similar
pubic institutions in Organization of American States
member countries.
General Objetives
1. Understand the main debates and approaches to
social protection and their implementation in Latin
America.
2. Identify achievements and gaps in social protection
in the region, and analyze the impact of various
instruments of social protection on the reduction of
poverty and inequality.
3. Acquire conceptual and methodological tools to
achieve incremental improvement in the design,
management and/or assessment of non-contributory
social protection.
Diploma Course Structure
Blended course Methodology: 80 hours long-distance + 40 hours in classroom
Activities
+
Module 1: State Institutions and their Evolution in the Process to Install
the System for Social Protection in Latin America.
Module 2: Social Protection : Vulnerability, Poverty & Inequality.
+
Module 3: Tools for Designing and Managing Social Protection Programs
Module 4: Tools to Evaluate and Monitor Social Protection Programs
+
Module 5: Developing the Final Project.
Module I: State Institutions and their Evolution in the Process of Installing the
Social Protection System in Latin America.
Proffesors: Paula Margotta – Ignacio Irarrázaval
This module aims to help students understand the general framework of social policies,
social protection and State Institutions in the region to overcome poverty and inequality.
This enables them to understand the context in which their institution carries out its work.
Contents:
1. Key concepts in social policy and their historical evolution
2. Social policy and state intervention
3. Approaches to social protection and their evolution in Latin America
4. Functions of social protection
5. Instruments or mechanisms for intervention
6. Public institutions and social protection
Module II: Social Protection: vulnerability, poverty and inequality.
Professor: Patricio Domínguez
This module will assist students to understand the phenomenon of poverty in the context of
social protection, and to do a comparative analysis of the concepts of vulnerability, poverty
and inequality. Different ways of targeting social spending will be considered in the light of
overcoming poverty and inequality.
Contents:
1. Poverty and inequality in Latin America: context overview
2. The debate on poverty and inequality with regard to economic growth
3. Measuring inequality
4. Concepts and measures of poverty
5. The notion of risk and the vulnerability approach
6. Targeting and distribution of the impact of social spending
7. Plans for targeting social expenditure in Latin America
Module III: Tools for Designing and Managing Social Protection Programs.
Professors: Paula Miranda – Karin Roa
During the development of these in-class sessions, students will acquire tools for analysis,
design and management to implement social outreach programs, whose implementation
will be improved incrementally by these means.
Contents:
Analysis of organizational capacities with regards to managing social protection programs
a)
Areas of capacity: analysis of capacity models, human resources, technological resources and infrastructure, strategic
leadership, organizational structure, financial management, process management and inter-organizational linkages.
b)
Analysis and design of core processes with relation to third parties: management, administration, monitoring and
evaluation of third-party relations.
Module III: Tools for Designing and Managing Social Protection Programs.
Professors: Paula Miranda – Karin Roa
Contents:
Intersectoral Coordination for results-oriented management
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
Intersectoral management of social protection
Areas of intersectoral performance
Intersectoral coordination methods
Designing objectives
Segmentation of user population by social complexity
Constructing indicators and measuring intersectoral results
Database management
Module IV: Tools to Evaluate and Monitor Social Protection Programs.
Professors: Paula Miranda – Karin Roa
Complementing work done in the previous module, participants will review tools for analysis,
monitoring and assessment of social protection programs to be applied in case studies.
Based on this work, they will examine the most important challenges that are posed by social
protection programs in the region.
Contents:
Population-based evaluation: building management systems with open services offered.
Evaluation
based
on
demand.
a)
b)
c)
The construction of open service offerings as the core of rights and accountability
Evaluation of open services
Management control systems
Module V: Developing the Final Project.
During this module students will carry out a management improvement project in
the program they are working for, thus contributing to the work that they are
doing for their institution. Project development will involve using and applying the
contents and tools worked on throughout the diploma course.
Methodology
 This is a hybrid program. The learning process involves tutoring, use of technology,
namely the UCVirtual platform, and 8 days of in-class sessions in Chile.
 Long-distance modules 1 & 2 feature choice readings, workshops, guides and
forums.
- Activities (readings, workshops, guides): putting content to the test, according to the
situation and culture in each participant’s institution.
-Forums: exchange of knowledge, perspectives and points of view, drawing from the
diversity among the students and making it part of the discussion.
Methodology
 In-class modules 3 & 4 involve sessions that are a combination of delivering
concepts, tools and methodologies through workshops that emphasize casestudy analysis.
 The objective of module 5 is to develop the final project.
Faculty Team
Patricio Domínguez. Master’s in Sociology at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Civil Engineer of Industry, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Paula Margotta. Master’s in Social Policy & Development, London School of Economics
and Political Science. Law, University of Chile
Paula Miranda. Ph.D. (C) in Advanced International Business Management, University
of Lleida. Master’s in Business Administration, Alberto Hurtado University / Marquet
University. Social Assistant, Technological Metropolitan University.
Ignacio Irarrázaval. Ph.D. in Social Policy, London School of Economics. Geographer,
University of Chile.
Karin Roa. Master’s in Organizational Government from University of Navarra. Master’s
© in Psychology of Health, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Psychologist at the
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Applications
Admissions process will be by way of an OAS announcement sent to the senior officials at
the Ministries of Social Development and similar institutions, in order that they submit
candidates for the diploma course. Once the applicants are chosen, they will be invited to
register for the Diploma course. (*)
Professionals interested in participating must fill out and hand in the application form and
annex a letter of commitment at
www.uc.cl/ucvirtual
Applications Period: August 12 to September 9, 2011
Applicant Notices: September 22, 2011
Diploma course starts : October 3, 2011
In-class period: January 9 to 20, 2011
(*) 25 openings
www.uc.cl/ucvirtual
Contacts
Macarena Álvarez M.
Coordinator for Training and Faculty
Center for Public Policy UC
Alameda #340, 3er Piso, Campus Casa Central, Santiago, Chile
Phones: (56-2) 354 5658 – (56-2) 354 5598
E-mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
Alexandra Barrantes
Coordinator of the Inter-American Network for Social Protection, Organization of American States
1889 F St., NW, Washington DC 20006
Phone: (202) 458-6907
E-mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
Diploma in
Social Protection for the Americas
Ignacio Irarrázaval
Director
Public Policy Center
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile