School of Governance

OAS School of Governance

Data

Status

Active

Start

2015

Implementation

Social Networks

Twitter: @EscuelaOEA

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The OAS School of Governance (SoG) offers educational, capacity building and leadership programs to train a new generation of public leaders in the Americas: government officers, diplomatic personnel, political authorities, social and community leaders who work within the government, academia, civil society or private sector.

The SoG mission is to facilitate access to premier contents and methodologies offered at the world-best universities in the Americas, Europe and Asia to a public of individuals, social groups and communities that are not able to attend these programs due to high tuition fee and travel costs. Both open-enrollment and in-company courses delivered in different instructional modalities: face-to-face, virtual and hybrid/blended learning. Students can apply to merit-based and need-based partial scholarships to cover tuition fees.

The SoG portfolio covers a broad range of disciplines and knowledge domains in all four OAS pillars: Democracy, Human Rights, Multidimensional Security and Integral Development.

Objectives

Promote democratic values, practices and institutions through capacity building and leadership development programs focused on open government (transparency, participation and collaboration) and effective policymaking (empirical-based, user-centered, co-designed, behavioral-informed and fiscally responsible policies) across the Americas.
Stimulate education, science, technology and culture geared toward the integral improvement of the individual as a responsible citizen as a foundation for democracy, social justice and progress, according to OAS mandates.
Strengthen organizational capacities to adapt, resist and innovate in an era of great uncertainties - taking into consideration a cross-cutting perspective (democracy, human rights, multidimensional security and integral development) and the Inter-American Agenda's priorities.
Monitor and identify all training initiatives carried out by various OAS/SG specialized units, propose inter-departmental collaborations to improve or create new offerings, consolidate them into an integrated portfolio and make them available to a broader public - taking advantage of the technical expertise and human potential of OAS/SG staff.
Create networks of students coming from different countries, nationalities, sectors, expertise and "walks-of-life" in order to facilitate knowledge exchange and concrete collaborations among individuals and societal groups in all OAS member-States.

Activities

Diploma in Governance, Management and Public Leadership in the Inter-American System, which is taught in a blended learning format (one week in Washington DC and three online courses taken at the OAS Virtual Campus).
Political Leadership Development Program for Women Candidates: it seeks to empower, and strength leadership skills and technical capacities of female candidates involved in electoral campaigns in OAS member-States in a way that can improve their chances to win in free, frequent, fair and free-from-violence elections. This course has been delivered in several OAS member-States, such as Mexico, Peru, Dominican Republic, Panama, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Honduras and Guatemala - in collaboration with the Interamerican Commission for Women (CIM) with local support of national electoral authorities and other local counterparts.
Advanced Program on The Future of Government and Public Leadership Development: "hands-on", "simulation-based", "tailor-made" leadership program is focused on soft skill development (negotiation, communication, innovation, behavioral insights, scenario building, change management) for emerging mid-career public leaders across the Americas. Since 2015, this course has been delivered twice a year in several OAS member-States, such as Chile, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Peru, Panama, and Guatemala - often in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) and other local counterparts.