MN606 Public Finance and Budgeting
This Unit is designed for participants to gain insight to the themes as expressed by the Unit heading itself: Public Finance and Budgeting. The Unit addresses the way public money is distributed for development. The unit addresses public sector spending, revenue raising, borrowings, and allocation and fiscal administration in all levels governance from national to sub national level.
Importantly, in meeting the themes of the unit the facilitation is the discussion budgets and service delivery to provinces and districts through the national, provincial or district budgets.
This unit specifically examines or deals with fiscal decentralization or inter-government relations functions and funding and government fiscal responsibility on how governments spend from taxation revenue.
Cohorts hope to generate understanding of the role of government in use of funds for service delivery when study the attitudes, ethical and money politics in PNG or budget battles when we government focuses concerns about reducing disparity in development in LLGs, districts or provinces.
Cohorts hope to also make better decisions and managerial choices in allocation resources for improvement programs.
MN607 Administrative Law and Public Policy
There is an increasing awareness that public policy,
and the administrative law system that manages it, are subject to intense
political and cultural pressures. Administrative Law aims to enable students to
know the important and sophisticated body of law governing the exercise and
control of public power in Papua New Guinea. It includes the rule of law;
constitutional supremacy and values of constitutional democracy; principle of
legality; definition of an administrative action; open, accountable and transparent
administration, and history and development of administrative law in the
country. It will also distinguish power by the state and other similar bodies
exercising public power and exercises of legislative and judicial power, and
differentiate public and private power.
Public Policy on the other hand, highlights the functions, impacts, and constraints of key stakeholders upon policy development and the policy making process. It also explores professional ethics related to the role of the policy analyst and considers the significant social outcomes of public policy. An overview of the theories and strategies used by policymakers and policy analysts to develop, implement, execute, evaluate, and propagate public policy is provided. Participants then explore the impact and consequences of public policy and consider and evaluate policy in a social justice framework. The unit culminates in participants crafting a policy memorandum to a decision maker of their choosing regarding a current public policy problem that examines and evaluates competing policy alternatives and the administrative law system that manages it.
Overall, this unit examines the sources, influences, operation and consequences of administrative law and public policy formation, and analyzes public policy initiatives from political and legal aspects as to their intentions, achievable aims, and intended and unintended outcomes.