Impact Evaluation for Policy Making Learning about Rigorous Methods to Inform Decision_CR
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This document provides an agenda for a session on impact evaluations (IEs) at a think tank conference in Istanbul. The objectives are to raise awareness of IEs among think tanks, share resources for IE work, and learn what capacity think tanks want to develop. The session will include presentations on designing and implementing policy-relevant IEs, as well as a discussion of think tanks' interests in IE capacity development to inform future strategy. Presenters will discuss IE methodology and promoting uptake of findings, with discussants providing comments. The goal is to help think tanks produce high-quality evidence to inform policymaking through rigorous impact evaluations.
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- 1. Impact Evaluation for policymaking – Learning about rigorous methods to inform decision-making about what works in development policies and programming February 18, 2015 Istanbul, Turkey
- 2. Session Objectives • To raise awareness about IE among developing country think tanks to produce high-quality evidence to inform policymaking and programming • To share resources among TTI grantees interested in IE, including for enhancing their policy advocacy work and funding opportunities • To learn from TTI grantees their interest in further developing their capacity to use, commission or develop IE
- 3. Session Guiding Questions: • What is an IE and what it is not; What makes IE different, when is it important to use IE? What are the different types of IEs, and how to decide which one to use? • How do to design a rigorous IE that is useful to decision- makers and managers? • How to promote the uptake and use of findings? What are their limitations? • How to enhance TTs capacities around IEs (to do them, to commission them, to use IE evidence in providing advice and in advocating for policy change)?
- 4. Session coordinator/facilitator: • Carolina Robino, Senior Program Officer, IDRC Presenters: • Beryl Leach, Deputy Director, Head of the Policy, Advocacy and Communication Office, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), India • Miguel Jaramillo, Executive Director, Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE), Peru Discussants: • Anil Kumar Sharma, National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER), India • Ibrahim Kasirye, Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), Uganda
- 5. Session format: • An impact evaluation step by step by Miguel Jaramillo • Comments by Anil Kumar Sharma • Q&A • Why doing policy relevant IEs is so important and how to achieve it through design and implementation – by Berly Leach • Comments by Ibrahim Kasirye • Q&A • Moderated discussion: learn from TTI grantees interest in developing capacity to use, commission or develop IE Inform the TTI Phase 2 Capacity Development Strategy