Before staring their two-year placement, the five new Oxford Policy Fellows took part in a pre-departure orientation and training week in the UK.
Following their orientation, new Fellows got their first look into their new lives as Fellows at the Oxford Policy Fellowship’s second Annual Meeting. Hosted in September 2017, the meeting brought together the Fellowship Community of Practice: a group of government officials from nine countries, all the programme’s Fellows, and law and public policy experts. The two-day event covered issues directly relevant to the Fellowship postings, and broader themes, such as minimising the imbalance of power in negotiations.
This year, new government partners include ministries in Ghana, Pakistan, and Uganda, in addition to renewal of two of the first cohort postings in Djibouti and Rwanda. One of our government partners shared why they need a Fellow:
“We need to have the regulations and the legal environment right. I …