UNU-MERIT offers a range of online and blended courses for working professionals keen to expand their expertise in public policy. Focused on policy design, policy analysis and the methods of policy research, our learning programmes offer skills and knowledge often difficult to obtain during full-time employment. Courses are available as single online courses but also as certificate programmes and blended learning programmes. We also design tailor-made online course packages upon request.

The Online Courses:

• Economics of Innovation;
• Governance in Theory and Practice;
• Impact Evaluation of Policies and Programmes: Estimation and Analysis of Causal Impacts;
• Introduction to Impact Evaluation of Policies and Programmes;
• Introduction to Migration Studies;
• Introduction to Social Protection for the Poor;
• Public Policy Analysis;
• The Public Policy Process;
• Policy Analysis in Social Protection.