PubPob pt. 8 - Policy Evaluation

To provide credible information for decision makers - To identify ways to achieve more of the desired result. The systematic collection and analysis of information to make judgments about contexts, activities, characteristics, or outcomes of one or more domain(s) of the Policy Process

Policy Evaluation

Types of Policy Evaluation

• Process

• Outcome

• Impact

• Cost-benefit

This type of evaluation analyzes how well a policy or program is being administered.

1.Determine why a program or policy is performing at current levels.

2.Identify any problems.

3.Develop solutions to the problems.

4.Improve program performance by recommending how solutions should be implemented and evaluated once carried out.

Process Evaluation

This type of evaluation is what is more commonly perceived as a policy evaluation. The objective of this type of evaluation is to determine whether or not a given public policy or program is in fact achieving the intended impact as visualized by the various policy actors who either supported or opposed the given policy. Program or policy results and whether they are intended or unintended, positive or negative, in effect.

Impact Evaluation

Evaluation asking: did the policy produce the desired behavioral change initially sought?

Outcome Evaluation

The comparison of the costs associated with a policy or program to the benefits generated by the policy

Cost Benefit Evaluation or Analysis

They tend to have greater familiarity with the organization itself.

Internal Policy Evaluators

Perceived to be impartial because evaluators supposedly have no stake in the outcome of the evaluationyou want to discuss

External Policy Evaluators