1.3 baer eng why is disseminating important astana november 2009
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The document discusses the importance of disseminating Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicators and statistical information proactively. It notes that only statistical information that is used is useful, and that decision makers, businesses, politicians, research and educational institutions, media, citizens, and NGOs all need access to MDG indicators and data. Effective dissemination requires understanding user needs and making information easily accessible, understandable, focused on essentials, and presented visually.
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1.3 baer eng why is disseminating important astana november 2009
- 1. Why is disseminating Millennium Development Goal indicators important? Why should dissemination be proactive? Training Workshop on Disseminating MDG Indicators and Statistical Information A stana, Kazakhstan, 23-25 November 2009 Petteri Baer, Regional Adviser, UNECE
- 5. What is a Policy Cycle? Setting objectives Costing programmes Implementation Monitoring and evaluation Analysis Policy and strategy Results oriented, evidence-based policy making
- 14. The Policy Cycle: Monitoring and Evaluation Setting objectives Communication Policy implementation Monitoring Analysis Financing “ Are we following the steps set out and moving in the right direction?” “ Have we reached objectives?” “ Do we need to review objectives?” “ How can we improve progress against objectives?” Monitoring and evaluation
- 23. To develop understandable messages may also not be all that easy in the jungle of statistical information
Editor's Notes
- In the next few slides we will look at the various stages in the policy cycle. This slide is adapted from Poulsen (2004) “INSPIRE to inclusive and accountable polices” (DFID).
- The diagrams of the policy cycle draw from a number of sources, including Poulsen (2004) “INSPIRE to inclusive and accountable polices” (DFID). We can break the policy cycle down into a number of distinct stages which we will go through in turn: analysis setting objectives policy and strategy costing programmes implementation monitoring and evaluation The policy cycle is circular with the findings from monitoring and evaluation feeding back into the process.
- This slide is adapted from Poulsen (2004) “INSPIRE to inclusive and accountable polices” (DFID). For the policy cycle to be effective and efficient it is necessary to: know clearly where we are - accurate situational appraisal; know where we want to go – clear formulation of objectives; understand steps needed to get there – clear formulation of policies, strategies, tasks and planned steps, and understanding of the links between them; have the capacity to follow the steps – sound implementation procedures, with good management and resource mobilization, control and accounting; know where we have reached and compare it to the planned progress – effective, honest and unbiased monitoring and evaluation; learn from past experience and not be afraid to learn from mistakes as well as successes; and, be willing to use the skills and experience of all relevant disciplines. An effective and efficient policy cycle is not necessarily inclusive and accountable.
- This slide is adapted from Poulsen (2004) “INSPIRE to inclusive and accountable polices” (DFID). For the policy cycle to be inclusive we need to: understand the integrated network of social, political, instructional, relational and economic factors which represent the real world in which the policy cycle operates; recognize that the real world contains real people with a range of beliefs, needs, wants, attitudes, aspirations, abilities and access to resources and influence; a world in which debate, alliance building and influencing are just as important to the policy cycle as is the process of rational appraisal, monitoring, evaluation and empirical evidence; and, ensure that the voice of all participants are heard, and mitigate the tendency of some participants to monopolize or divert the process and outcomes to their own benefit . For the policy cycle to be accountable we need to emphasize the responsibility of: all actors in the society for their decisions and actions; those with greater power and responsibility for leadership and management of the institutional, economic, social and political arrangements upon which an effective and inclusive society and economy operates; and, those who under take the detailed formulation, appraisal, monitoring and evaluation of policies.
- How to get evidence into policy making: Keep the use of evidence in perspective – there are factors other than evidence Bring together researchers and policymakers and ensure that there is a shared understanding Devote resources to providing good quality evidence that is valid, reliable and relevant Empower the champions of evidence Provide incentives to use evidence Ensure that staff have the information and skills to be intelligent producers and users of evidence Evidence must be “owned” within the organisation This is drawn from P.T. Davies “The challenge of getting evidence into policy: lessons from comparative experience”, Strategy Unit, Cabinet Office, UK.
- Typically, the policy cycle begins with an analysis of the current situation. If this was a PRSP policy cycle, then the focus at this stage would be on examining the nature of poverty based on the available quantitative and qualitative data. In reality the “analysis” and “setting objectives” stages may be the other way round. For example, democratisation could be a set as objective without any “analysis” input.
- Following analysis, the next step is to reach consensus on where we want to go by developing medium- and long-term goals, indicators and targets. It is at this stage that we need to think about the MDGs – we return to this later.
- In order to determine how to reach the targets, we need to: Review: Macroeconomic and structural policies needed to support objectives; Correct mix of sectoral policies and programmes; Governance issues, such as public sector financial management. 2. Examine existing programmes 3. Identify priority policies and programmes 4. Undertake policy-relevant research
- The range of policies and programmes needed to reach the targets have to be carefully costed and linked to the annual budget cycle and the medium-term expenditure framework. We return to costing in the later module on the use of MDGs and indicators in policy making.
- It is about following each steps of the delivering process of new policies and programmes. For governments, it is usual to carry out pilot testing prior to the full implementation.
- Effective monitoring and evaluation is a key component in the policy cycle. We return to it in detail in another module.
- To reach the MDGs, each country needs to develop a strategy which includes specific policies and programmes built upon a needs assessment. The following slides on developing an MDG strategy are drawn from chapter 4 of Millennium Project (2004) “Interim Report of Task Force 1 on Poverty and Economic Development”, UNDG, New York. This paper can be found at: http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/tfoneinterim.pdf