Chapter 6 discusses policy evaluation in public policy and governance, emphasizing the definition, process, types of evaluation, and the challenges faced. It highlights the importance of evaluating policy effectiveness, learning from results, and the need for better organizational support and evaluation skills. Strategies for improvement include clarifying evaluation criteria and increasing participation from non-governmental organizations.

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Policy Evaluation
Public Policy and Governance
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2. Introduction o Definition
o The process of policy
evaluation
o Types of evaluation
o Utilization of evaluation
results
o Challenges in policy
evaluation
o Strategies for evaluators
o Conclusion

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○ Synthesizing what is known about a
problem and its proposed policy or
program remedy;
○ Demystifying conventional wisdom related
to either the problem or its solution(s);
○ Developing new information about
information about program or policy
effectiveness; and
○ Explainingto policy actors the implications
of new information derived through
evaluation
Policy evaluation refers broadly to
all the activities carried out by a
range of state and societal actors to
determine how a policy has fared
inpracticeandtoestimatehowitis
likely to perform in the future.
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DefinitionEvaluation contributes to the
policy-making process by:

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The Process of policy evaluation
Defining the
scope of
evaluation
Determining
evaluation
criteria
Collecting
information
Conducting
evaluation
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Types of evaluation
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Input Process Output Outcome Impact
Policy evaluation concentrates on one or more of the
following types of information about policies
performance:

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1. Simple Evaluation
Input evaluation
Output evaluation
Process evaluation
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The central task of
technical policy
evaluation is
frequently to isolate
the effects of a
particular policy from
those caused by other
factors.
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2. Outcome and Impact Evaluation
Source: adapted from Rossi, Lipsey, and Freeman, 2004.

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Evaluation design for isolating net outcomes from gross
outcomes
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2. Simple
before/after
comparison

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Utilization of
evaluation
results
Policy Learning
a.Social Learning
b.Lesson-drawing
c.Policy-oriented
Learning
d.Government Learning

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Policy Termination
a. Suggests a complete cessation of the
policy in question (de Leon 1983).
b. Accounts of such eventually under
score the extent to which termination
often requires an ideological shift in
government and society allowing
uniform judgements of success of
failure to be made (Jordan et al. 2013).

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Challenges in policy evaluation
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1. Lack of
organizational
support
2. Shortage of
evaluation skills
3. Narrow
perception of
the scope of
evaluation
4. Insufficient capacity for
data collection
Technical &
Organizational
constraints

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Political
1. Politically charged
environment for policy
evaluation
2. Unclear goals and
subjectivity in
interpreting result
3. The subjective nature of
the interpretation of
evaluation findings
4. Self-interest

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Strategies for evaluators
Clarifying
evaluation
criteria,
benchmarking,
and performance
measures
Establishing
independent
evaluation
departments
within
government
agencies
Strengthening
nongovernmental
participation
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○Evaluation is a key policy function
to which policy actors should
devote more care and attention
than they commonly do.
○Participatory monitoring and
evaluation of routine performance
data especially offers vast potential
for assessing performance and
drawing practical policy
conclusion.
Conclusion
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15. Thank You