Capacity Building
Building careers, not just conversations
Teaching and workshops across 35+ universities and schools. The Policy Career Navigator, databases, tools and courses. Built for people who want to learn, upskill and grow. We teach the craft of policy.
Teaching the craft of policy, in person and at scale
Capacity building is where PPI does the direct work of teaching policy. Over the last few years we have run 50+ in-person teaching and workshop sessions across 35+ universities and schools in 20+ cities, and the count keeps climbing.
The formats range from two-hour guest lectures to thirty-hour credit-bearing courses, alongside fellowships, self-paced tools and open databases. Some of it reaches school students in Classes 11 and 12; some we design with partner institutions across the ecosystem. The aim stays constant: take someone curious about public life and give them the knowledge, skills and network to build a real career in it.
Tools, training and resources, all in one ecosystem
Policy Career Navigator
Your roadmap into India's policy ecosystem: 100+ careers mapped across 12 domains. Free to use.
Open the tool → 35+ universitiesPPI Talks
Workshops and guest teaching across schools and 35+ universities, plus international virtual sessions.
See it on LinkedIn → India's dataMany Indias
An interactive tool that maps living conditions across India, bringing data to life for students and researchers.
Open the tool → Self-pacedKnowledge Resources
E-books, guided toolkits and sector primers that explain the field, step by step.
Browse resources → CuratedDatabases
Fellowships, policy organisations, policy schools, scholarships and short courses, all in one place.
Browse the databases →
Working across the ecosystem
A large part of our teaching happens through deep, ongoing partnerships: inside universities, in schools, and alongside other institutions across the ecosystem. This work runs along several lines.
Board of Studies and advisory roles
STRIDE holds standing Board of Studies seats and academic advisory roles at partner universities, helping shape what policy and governance curricula actually teach.
University MoUs and partnerships
Formal teaching and curriculum partnerships with universities across India, with more in the works.
Workshops and guest teaching
In-person workshops, guest lectures and full courses on campus, from single sessions to credit-bearing modules, meeting students where they already are.
School programmes
We run sessions for school students, especially in Classes 11 and 12, introducing policymaking, governance and the idea of a meaningful career in public life early, when students are first choosing their paths.
Capacity building with partner institutions
We also design and deliver capacity-building programmes with and for other institutions in the ecosystem, including think tanks and research organisations, taking our teaching well beyond the university classroom.
A bridge into the wider ecosystem
We plug partner universities and their students into the PPI community, the city chapters, The Policy Post and Policy Circles, so what they learn turns into real career outcomes.
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Do more than attend
Use the Career Navigator, explore the databases, and put the tools to work. Everything we build is free for the community.