The course is included as a new part of the existing subject known as social policy practice offered to the undergraduate program "Social Work". This course teaches students to understand informalities and their implications as an area of social/public policies. The new content of the course also helps students to understand informalities as a common challenge on Ethiopia’s social policy agenda. Besides, this part of the course is an area for enhancing basic social policy practice skills such as advocacy. In tandem with discussing social problems, students will be introduced to the politics of social policy including the role of values and ideology in influencing social policy content and analytical elements in policy analysis. The course gives students the chance to recognize, review, and understand the major social policies of Ethiopia with regards to informal settlements. 

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