0282 - Improving Systems through Policy and Program Evaluation: An Introduction to Data Analysis in Evaluation
Course Description
This course will provide a hands-on experience in data-driven evaluation for evaluators working in Community Organizations, Local, State, and Federal Policy Organizations, and also in International Development Organizations.
The participants will learn: (i) how to formulate evaluation questions; (ii) the relevance of evaluation criteria such as effectiveness, equity, efficiency, impact, relevance, coherence, and sustainability; (iii) how to interrogate assumptions in policy and program theory through a range of analytical techniques; (iv) methods of impact analysis; (v) and how testing policy theories can lead to learning and refinement over time. This class is designed with a recognition that policy evaluators working in diverse settings such as State and International Development organizations on the problem of inequities have much to learn from each other. Two examples that will run through the course include Medicaid in the United States and Maternal Health in India.
Learning objectives:
(a) learn the commonalities of policy and program evaluation problems across multiple sectors such as Medicaid and Maternal Health;
(b) develop policy/program theories of change;
(c) analytical techniques to test the policy/program theories;
(d) structuring and analyzing data for answering questions related to impacts and equities;
(e) learn how to answer if your intervention is working, how it works, and what needs to be done to make it work.
Who is the course for?
The course will appeal to policy evaluators working in Local, State, and Federal Policy Evaluators
Evaluators working in International organizations such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization
Evaluators working in Consultancy, Academic, and Community Organizations
Course Instructors
Sanjeev Sridharan, Professor of Health Policy Evaluation at the Social Science Research Institute at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Sean Okamoto, Project Technical Director, Telecommunications and Social Informatics Research Program, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa