Policy and programme evaluation
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This document discusses the evaluation of policies and interventions in the public sector. It defines evaluation as the systematic assessment of a policy's design, implementation, and outcomes to determine if it achieved its intended results and costs. Effective evaluation requires collecting baseline data before implementation and ongoing monitoring data to assess the policy's impacts and feed back into the process. It also discusses using a theory of change to conceptually frame how a policy's activities are expected to lead to its intended outcomes and impacts. The goal of evaluation is to determine a policy's effectiveness and inform future decision-making.
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Policy and programme evaluation
- 1. Evaluations in the Public Sector Dr Alberto Asquer
- 3. Evaluation is the systematic assessment of an intervention’s design, implementation and outcomes. Evaluation provides an answer to: • if an intervention is working or worked • if the costs and benefits were as anticipated • whether it had any other consequences • how well it was implemented https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data /file/685903/The_Green_Book.pdf Policy evaluation
- 4. Monitoring is the collection of data, both during and after policy implementation. This data can be fed back into implementation, current decision making and the appraisal process to improve future decision making. It requires the collection of data before implementation to act as a baseline. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data /file/685903/The_Green_Book.pdf Policy evaluation
- 5. 5 In 2013, Kent County Police started using predictive policing tools to tackle street crime. Example
- 6. Policy implementation Policy evaluation time Policy intervention Conditions after the policy intervention Conditions before the policy intervention
- 7. Policy implementation Policy evaluation time Policy intervention Are the new conditions better then previous ones? Conditions before the policy intervention Conditions after the policy intervention
- 8. Policy implementation Policy evaluation time Policy intervention Does any other factor explain change? Conditions before the policy intervention Conditions after the policy intervention
- 9. Policy implementation Policy evaluation time Policy intervention Why did the intervention “work”? Conditions before the policy intervention Conditions after the policy intervention
- 10. Policy implementation Original conditions Policy evaluation time Policy intervention Could the same result be obtain even without the intervention? Conditions without the policy intervention
- 11. Policy implementation Policy evaluation time Policy intervention Conditions without the policy intervention Could we compare conditions after the policy intervention to a ‘counterfactual’ world? Conditions before the policy intervention Conditions after the policy intervention
- 12. • What is the question? • Did x affect y? • What else could affect y? • How precisely does x trigger y? • Do we get y even without x? • What else could we get without x? • Data collections • Number of instances • Time span • Data analysis • Quantitative • Qualitative Policy evaluation as a research design
- 13. Policy implementation Policy evaluation time Policy intervention Why did the intervention “work”? Conditions before the policy intervention Conditions after the policy intervention
- 14. • Sometimes called ‘Intervention Logic’ or ‘Logical Framework’ • Provides the conceptual framework making connections between the different elements, showing how what is done is expected to achieve the purpose Theory of change
- 15. The end