REGIONAL SEMINAR INTRODUCTION TO THE IMPACT EVALUATION OF PUBLIC POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES
August  23 to 25, 2017

PROGRAMME

  1. 1.    Repository Virtual Module / Optional 
      • Presentation of the course and results-based public administration: background and concepts
      • Process and evaluation of public policies: theoretical and conceptual bases
      • Assessment and monitoring as public policy
      • Types of assessment 
  1. 2.    Agenda Classroom Module 
      • Impact evaluation: Causality and the problem of attribution
      • Definition of selection bias and selection probability
      • Experimental design: probability, random and counterfactual selection. Scope and limitations of the experimental design
      • Semi-experiments: model of differences in differences
      • Non-experimental methodologies: What happens when there is no randomness?
      • Pairing method
      • Method of experimental variables
      • Discontinuous regression method 
  1. 3.    Repository Agenda Virtual Module / Optional 
      • Presentation of cases
      • Introduction (group discussion I): Presentations
      • Introduction (group discussion II): Presentations and closing
      • Mixed methods and the problem of the “black box” of decision-making
      • Implications of impact assessment and feedback of the course