Wednesday, March 14, 2012 by Quality Doc @ Medical Lab Quality
I was reading in Canadian Government Executive an article under the banner Leadership, entitled "Nurturing Future Policymakers" by Andrew Snook. It was referencing a program called the Policy Analyst Recruitment and Development Program (PARDP) which invites and screens applicants to identify a small number of recruits who are then trained and mentored for up to a year and a half. Once graduated, most stay on within the ministry as part of a new cadre of Policy Analysts.
This seems to me as a brilliant idea. There are lots of folks that want to work in the civil service, and some of them may have some understanding that the driver of action is Policy, but the only thing worse than the absence of policy is the presence of poorly thought out or unbalanced Policy. The problem is that few in the service know anything about what to do and how to go about it. So create an interest, develop a pool of appropriate candidates, and then train them and recruit them. Fill the niche and problem solved.
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