Advanced Certificate in Public Administration and Management Course

Did you know that tracer studies show public administration graduates achieve nearly 90% employment in governance and administrative roles, structured civil service training can explain about 40% of observed capacity gains, and integrity tools like ethics training, citizen charters, and value-for-money audits measurably strengthen accountability in government?

Course Overview

The Advanced Certificate in Public Administration and Management Course by Rcademy is designed to equip public sector managers, civil servants, government officials, government department managers, managers, professionals who want to change careers, public administrators, public sector managers, auditors, and human resource managers with comprehensive understanding of public policy management, public management, development of administration, strategic planning and management, and concepts of governance and the role of the state. Participants gain expert knowledge of translating public administration theories into analytical frameworks for explaining world public administration systems, implementing modern public sector management reforms including new public management and post-new public management approaches, designing ethics and values initiatives with codes of conduct and integrity mechanisms, managing public-private partnerships and outsourcing arrangements, and applying monitoring and evaluation methodologies for development programs.​

Without specialized public administration and management training, professionals may struggle to analyze changing roles of government in service delivery, design performance measurement systems with key performance indicators, navigate ethical challenges such as weak accountability mechanisms and limited transparency, implement change management in government organizations, or align training modules with real public sector roles and competencies, limiting their ability to discharge duties effectively and support governance improvements. This comprehensive course provides a structured path to mastery across introduction to management and administration with governance concepts, public management including financial and resource management, political economy including comparative administrative systems, public administration including human resource development, ethics in public administration with accountability and transparency principles, roles of public administrators including citizen engagement, the public sector including service delivery models, and administrative laws including human rights frameworks, preparing attendees to lead policy implementation, public sector reform, and governance initiatives.​

The Advanced Certificate in Public Administration and Management Course covers introduction to public policy management, public management, and strategic planning, public management including business management, service quality management, financial and resource management, and project planning, political economy including comparative administrative systems, introduction to administrative laws, and role of the state in economic development, public administration including quantitative research methods, comparative public administration, human resource development, and e-government and digital transformation, ethics in public administration including managing non-governmental organizations, results-oriented management, monitoring and evaluation, and organizational behaviour for service excellence, roles of public administrators including human resource management, leadership and decision-making in multi-stakeholder environments, and managing performance, the public sector including effects of government policies administration, service delivery models, and stakeholder management, and administrative laws including democracy and development, public relations in government, disaster management, and rule of law principles. Participants learn to apply performance measurement and key performance indicators in the public sector, design public-private partnerships and outsourcing arrangements, analyze globalization’s impact on public policy and governance, implement new public management and post-new public management reforms, apply core ethical principles of accountability, transparency, equity, and integrity, and use citizen engagement and participatory governance tools.​

Real-world cases show how a study on employment trends and sectoral integration of BPA graduates from Davao del Norte State College (DNSC) in the Philippines found that graduates have a relatively high employment rate of 89.32% and predominantly enter governance-related and administrative roles in government offices, NGOs, and private sector institutions, with nearly half holding permanent positions and job relevance high, indicating that the competencies taught in public administration translate directly into stable, relevant careers.

Studies also show that a 2024 impact measurement study of the Foundation Training Course (FTC) at Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC) found that sub-modules on public sector management and “integrity in public administration” had a significant, positive effect on civil servants’ ability to perform their duties, with training explaining about 40.1% of the variance in capacity development and contributing to improvements in project delivery times, policy implementation efficiency, and ethical awareness.

Take charge of your public administration expertise. Enroll now in the Rcademy Advanced Certificate in Public Administration and Management Course to master the governance skills that drive effective public sector performance.

Who Should Attend?

The Advanced Certificate in Public Administration and Management Course by Rcademy is ideal for:

• Public sector managers and administrators
• Civil servants and government officials
• Government department managers
• Professionals seeking career change into public sector
• Public administrators and policy analysts
• Auditors and compliance officers
• Human resource managers in government
• Local government unit officials
• NGO managers and development practitioners
• Elected officials and political appointees
• Municipal and provincial administrators
• Public finance and budget officers
• Anyone seeking comprehensive public administration certification

What are the Training Goals?

The main objectives of the Advanced Certificate in Public Administration and Management Course are to enable professionals to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of using relevant theories in analyzing and explaining the existing system of world public administration, management problems, and public policies.
• Understand the modern developments, theories, and trends in public sector administration and policy-making in developing and developed countries.
• Appreciate the public managers’ important role in tackling changes in the public management sector in the ever-changing public service environment.
• Thoroughly understand the development and application of policies, theories, administration practices, and management in the public sector.
• Apply the knowledge gained to analyze the changing role of the government and various new strategies through which public service can be evaluated and delivered.
• Be equipped with the appropriate skills, knowledge, and methodologies to effectively participate and contribute to public development in their countries.
• Understand the critical role politics play in human life.

How Will This Training Course Be Presented?

At Rcademy, the extensive focus is laid on the relevance of the training content to the audience. Thus, content is reviewed and customised as per the professional backgrounds of the audience.

The training framework includes:

• Expert-led lectures by public administration and governance professionals using audio-visual sessions
• Hands-on exercises with policy analysis, strategic planning, and performance measurement design
• Interactive workshops for ethics case analysis, stakeholder engagement, and change management planning
• Case studies covering Philippines BPA employment trends, Bangladesh BPATC civil service training impact, and UNDP ethics and values in civil services
• Practical simulations for budget preparation, monitoring and evaluation frameworks, and public relations strategies

The theoretical part of training is delivered by an experienced professional from the relevant domain, using audio-visual presentations. This public administration-focused approach ensures professionals translate theory into practical workflows through policy implementation, governance reform design, and public sector management.​

This comprehensive certification model ensures participants gain both public administration fundamentals and hands-on proficiency to immediately apply governance expertise in government agencies, local government units, NGOs, and public sector advisory roles.​

Register now to experience a rigorous, hands-on learning journey designed to equip you for leading public policy implementation, governance reform, and public sector management initiatives.

Course Syllabus

Module 1: Introduction

• Public policy management
• Public management
• Development of administration
• Communication skills and ICT
• Social statics
• Research methods
• Strategic planning and management
• Introduction to Management and Administration
• Concepts of governance and the role of the state​
• Distinction between public administration and public management​
• Evolution of public administration in developed and developing countries​

Module 2: Public Management

• Business management
• Service quality management
• Financial and resource management
• Customer relationship
• Project planning
• Sustainable management of public resources
• Risk management principles and practice
• Case study
• Performance measurement and key performance indicators (KPIs) in the public sector​
• Public–private partnerships and outsourcing of public services​
• Change management in government organizations​

Module 3: Political Economy

• Comparative administrative systems
• Introduction to administrative laws
• Local authorities in service provision
• Introduction to public administration
• The political economy of any country
• Administrative Theory
• Principles of corporate finance in the public sector
• Role of the state in economic development and regulation​
• Globalisation and its impact on public policy and governance​
• Interest groups, civil society and their influence on public decisions​

Module 4: Public Administration

• Quantitative research methods in a political sector
• Theory of political inquiry
• Comparative public administration
• Human resource development
• Politics of industrialization
• Development administration
• Methods of political inquiry
• Theory of political inquiry
• Environmental Policy and Administration
• Public policy analysis
• New Public Management and post–New Public Management reforms​
• Decentralisation and devolution of powers to local governments​
• E-government and digital transformation in public services​

Module 5: Ethics in Public Administration

• Managing non-governmental organizations
• Financial accounting and management
• Ethics in public administration
• Results-oriented management
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Economics and public finance
• Organizational Behaviour for service excellence
• Public administration ethical methods
• Core ethical principles: accountability, transparency, equity, and integrity​
• Codes of ethics and professional standards for public servants​
• Handling conflicts of interest and whistleblowing mechanisms​

Module 6: Roles of Public Administrators

• The duties and responsibilities of civil and public servants
• Human resource management: remuneration, control, recruitment, and training
• Traditional roles of public servants, modern civil servants, and the recent changes
• Promotion in public administration
• Structure and functions of local administration
• Health and voluntary agencies
• Elected and employed officials and central government control
• Economy, equity, and Efficiency in public administration
• Integration, continuity, and Changes in the Public Administration and Management Sector
• The correct roles of the public
• Leadership and decision-making in complex, multi-stakeholder environments​
• Citizen engagement and participatory governance tools​
• Managing performance and motivating public sector employees​

Module 7: The Public Sector

• Effects on citizens’ daily life of government policies administration
• The public sector, gauging the impact on the environment
• The institutional settings of the public sector
• The roles of any public administrator
• The nature, roles, and responsibilities in the world-changing public expectations
• Independent public bodies
• Allocating resources for central and local administration
• Financial controls
• Green policies administration
• Service delivery models and service improvement initiatives​
• Public sector reform agendas and modernization programmes​
• Stakeholder management and intergovernmental relations​

Module 8: Administrative Laws

• Democracy and development
• Public relations in government
• Administrative of public enterprises and privatization
• Urban Government and Politics
• Political and multinational corporations
• Disaster management
• Monitoring and evaluation of development programs
• Public personnel management
• Rural development administrations
• Relief management
• Public finance administration
• Limits of public administration
• Public relations in governments
• Rule of law and principles of administrative justice​
• Judicial review and oversight of administrative action​
• Human rights frameworks and their implications for public administration

Training Impact

The impact of Advanced Certificate in Public Administration and Management training is visible in how organizations achieve better alignment between training and real public sector roles, build stronger civil service capacity from structured training modules, and improve ethics and governance in public administration.​

BPA Graduates in the Philippines – Employment Trends and Sectoral Integration

Implementation: A study on employment trends and sectoral integration of BPA graduates from Davao del Norte State College (DNSC) in the Philippines found that graduates have a relatively high employment rate and predominantly enter governance-related and administrative roles in government offices, NGOs, and private sector institutions. The study revealed that a substantial percentage of 89.32% of graduates successfully transitioned into the workforce, securing jobs relevant to their field of study, with the results underscoring the need for curriculum enhancements, stronger internship-government linkages, and policy interventions to improve BPA graduates’ workforce integration. A closer examination reveals that earlier graduates (2018-2019) have a significantly higher proportion of regular/permanent positions, while graduates from 2020 are more likely to start in temporary roles such as contract-of-service or job-order employment, with this shift suggesting that while the BPA curriculum equips graduates with relevant competencies, many enter the workforce through non-regular employment arrangements before transitioning to stable roles. The increasing reliance on temporary employment among newer graduates aligns with broader employment policies in the Philippine bureaucracy, where tenure-based promotions and additional credentials often play a role in securing permanent appointments.​

Results: Nearly half held permanent positions, and job relevance was high (around 89%), indicating that the competencies taught in public administration administrative expertise, governance knowledge, and public service aptitude translate directly into stable, relevant careers, echoing the goals and content of this advanced certificate. Tracer studies conducted in the Philippines have also identified a growing demand for e-governance competencies and data-driven decision-making skills among governance professionals, underscoring the need to assess whether BPA graduates possess the digital competencies to thrive in the evolving public sector landscape. The findings contribute to higher education policy-making and public administration workforce development, ensuring alignment between academic training and labor market demands, with results revealing significant insights into how Bachelor of Public Administration graduates from Davao del Norte State College successfully transitioned into the workforce with substantial job relevance. These findings demonstrate how public administration curricula that emphasize governance, public finance, HR, and policy skills effectively prepare graduates for real-world roles, mirroring this course’s modules on public management, administration, political economy, and public finance.​

Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC) – Impact of Public Administration Modules

Implementation: A 2024 impact measurement study of the Foundation Training Course (FTC) at Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC) assessed how public administration training modules affected civil servants’ capacity. Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC) has the mandate to impart career training for civil servants of Bangladesh, with the Foundation Training Course (FTC) being one of the most important civil servant capacity-building courses, as a ‘Centre of Excellence, BPATC plays an active role in mitigating human resources demand at the national level to provide effective, inclusive, self-mandated, and personalized training for the public sector in Bangladesh. The study aimed to determine how satisfied trainees are in terms of receiving skill, knowledge, and attitude; to identify training modules contained in terms of must know, should know and nice to know, and assess modules’ impact on capacity development for the civil servants, with a structured questionnaire administered for data collection from the trainees who participated in the P-63rd FTC at BPATC. The ‘Public Administration’ training module has four sub-modules and module contents have given reliability validation that shows training contents as per module items were internally consistent at the level of satisfaction.​

Results: Using surveys and regression analysis, the study found that sub-modules on public sector management and “integrity in public administration” had a significant, positive effect on civil servants’ ability to perform their duties, with training explaining about 40.1% of the variance in capacity development and contributing to improvements in project delivery times, policy implementation efficiency, and ethical awareness evidence that structured public administration and ethics training of the type included in this course can measurably improve public sector performance. The descriptive statistics results and the frequency percent results have shown that trainees are somehow satisfied with the recipient of training at BPATC, with the significant finding showing which contents must know and should know for fostering competencies in liquidating their quotidian activities. The research found that the regression model is significant and explains 40.1% of the total variance, with public sector management and ‘integrity in public administration’ sub-modules of public administration having a significant impact on the capacity development of civil servants to discharge their duties in service life. A policy suggestion is drawn for the curriculum committee to redesign training curricula and their delivery method, particularly for public servants, as a tool for human resource development, demonstrating how well-structured public administration modules significantly improve civil servants’ skills, knowledge, and attitudes.​

Ethics and Values in Civil Services – Lessons from UNDP Case Evidence

Implementation: A UNDP “Ethics and Values in Civil Service” action brief synthesizes case evidence from several countries, including Zimbabwe and Ghana, showing how decentralization and targeted integrity initiatives can enhance accountability and service delivery. The action brief attempts to uncover ways in which ethics and values are promoted in the public service, presenting three broad approaches – economic, legal, and behavioural – to promote ethical values in public service which provide entry points for effective intervention, with primary focus on the behavioural approach, specifically looking at the role of codes of conduct, education and training and mentoring in enhancing ethical conducts in civil service reform initiatives in a range of countries. In Zimbabwe, decentralisation has opened opportunities to enhance integrity and accountability in services delivery by municipal and local governments, with specific measures taken in trial experiments in two municipalities to put up local integrity and accountability systems including incorporating service delivery surveys in the budget cycle, establishing a mechanism for involving residents directly in the preparation of the local budget, making municipal documents and service plans auditable records, commissioning preparation of handbooks for guiding residents on procedures and rules, appointing a full-time public relations officer to receive public complaints and facilitate prompt communication between the community and the council, and undertaking value-for-money audits.​

Results: Measures such as incorporating service-delivery surveys into budget cycles, involving residents directly in local budget preparation, making municipal documents auditable records, appointing public relations officers to handle complaints, and implementing codes of conduct and citizens’ charters are highlighted as practical tools to strengthen ethics and values in public administration tools that align closely with this course’s coverage of ethics, monitoring and evaluation, public relations, and administrative law. A balanced package that combines elements of compliance- and integrity-based approaches and their adaptation to the cultural, political and administrative traditions of the particular country, well-publicised codes of conducts and citizens charters, coaching on ethical leadership, content and behaviour change driven training on ethics and values, strategic institutional transformations that support the application of such an ethics and values framework, and mentoring and coaching mechanisms that help sustain such capacities are key common features of embedding ethics and values in civil service reforms. The course’s modules on ethics in public administration, results-oriented management, monitoring and evaluation, and public service roles provide the conceptual and practical tools needed to design, implement, and support such ethics and governance initiatives within public organizations. Successful ethics management generally requires a balanced package that combines elements of compliance- as well as integrity-based approaches and their adaptation to the cultural, political and administrative traditions of the particular country, with effectiveness of the republican nature of the public service to make it a genuinely representative institution matching ethical values with the daily practices of the public service.​

Be inspired by how BPA graduates, BPATC training, and UNDP initiatives boost public sector efficiency, accountability, and career outcomes. Join the Rcademy Advanced Certificate in Public Administration and Management Course to gain the governance skills that drive effective public service.