The Master in Public Policy and Governance (MPPG) Program under the Department of General and Continuing Education at North South University has partnership with the University of Bergen in Norway, Tribhuvan University in Nepal and University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka. Initially it was a tripartite contract by the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU) with the University of Bergen, Norway (main partner institution in North) and North South University, Bangladesh (main partner institution in South). Tribhuvan University in Nepal joined the project as “other partnering institution” at the onset of the project launching and University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka joined the group at the end of 2008 as a beneficiary in the South-South partnership under the project.

The main partnering institution of the MPPG Program under the NOMA (Norad’s Master Studies Program) funding of the tripartite contract is the Department of Administration and Organization Theory of the University of Bergen (UiB) in Norway. Dr. Ishtiaq Jamil, Associate Professor of the Department of Administration and Organization Theory is the Project Coordinator of the NOMA-MPPG project in Norway. UiB mainly looks after the overall management of the project and supports technically.

The Department of General and Continuing Education (GCE) has launched a training project under UNDP’s Civil Service Change Management Programme which is called: Change Management Training in collaboration with the Ministry of Establishment of the Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh. This training program is specially designed to develop a core group in the civil service who will be responsible for implementing change processes in selected areas to ensure pro-poor service delivery and to provide knowledge based leadership in civil service.

MPPG has published a book "Understanding Governance and Public Policy in Bangladesh". The book is jointly edited by Dr. Ishtiaq Jamil, Prof. Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman, Dr. Steinar Askvik and Dr. Tawfique M. Haque. This book is a collection of essays on governance, public policy, public management reforms, policy implementation, and local governance in the era of New Public Management.   

A working paper of the first batch student, Sheikh Noor Mohammad's Master's thesis, "People's Participation in Development Project in Rural Bangladesh" has published under MPPG Program. The author is working as a Senior Assistant Secretary in the Cabinet Division of the Government of Bangladesh.