States are responsible and accountable towards ever more complex societies. Increasingly empowered communities and globally connected actors are demanding a more responsive public administration, effective public service delivery, increased transparency and justice.
Public Authorities frame, arbiter, regulate, and distribute collective public goods and craft formal opportunities for the people of their community established in a same territory and depending on shared resources. Through the rule of law and public policy, States set the ground for peace and development; public servants must in turn engage in bettering their response and service delivery. They thus require a solid understanding on law, policy, and regulation, and accurate bottom-up knowledge of the field in order to secure fairness and a horizon of development for all. Skills for policy coherency and institutional integrity, as well as the ability to evaluate and redress negative impacts of law, policy, rules, and contracts on the ground are crucial to improve State action and legitimize, through fairness, its existence and direction.