1 / 4

Workshop 3

Workshop 3. Revealing the causal chain Laura Polverari EPRC. Three papers on Theory-Driven Evaluation: distinct but complementary.

halle
Download Presentation

Workshop 3

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Workshop 3 Revealing the causal chain Laura Polverari EPRC

  2. Three papers on Theory-Driven Evaluation: distinct but complementary • "Making sound judgements about the effects of public policies: how to explore the missing links between cause and effect?" (Petri Uusikylä, Net Effect Ltd., Finland) • "Theory driven evaluation: tracing links between assumptions and effects" (Karol Olejniczak, Warsaw University, Poland) • "Systems constellations in theory based evaluations – tools and experiences“ (André Martinuzzi, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)

  3. Key messages (from papers) • TDE can be a useful approach for evaluating Cohesion policy programmes: • Makes programme hypotheses explicit (and the potential weaknesses of these)  useful for complex, composite OPs • Clarity of research problem: verification of programme hypotheses • Aims to explain why objectives have been achieved (or haven’t) • Focuses on effects: implementation one explanatory factor • Links programme evaluation with wider theories, contexts, actors’ behaviours and path dependence • Encourages methodological pluralism and a participative approach • Variety of methodologies available (examples in Uusikylä) • Awareness of some shortcomings: over-simplification, generalisation, level of abstraction, deadweight neglect

  4. Key messages (from discussion) • Conceptual limitations of TDE • Performance not necessarily linked to soundness of programme theory • Need to look at unintended effects • May help justify under-performing programmes? • Inward orientation (programmes ‘in isolation’ from other policies)  other policies may displace Cohesion policy • Evaluator’s role • Should he/she make programme theory explicit? • As policy developer • As ‘bridge’ between policy-makers and stakeholders • Risk of evaluation becoming self-referential • Need to adapt TDE to evolving Cohesion policy context  outwith large Convergence MS programmes are • Part of a ‘bigger picture’  need to integrate evaluation of Cohesion policy programmes with that of domestic policies under which they are subsumed • More narrowly focussed  potential to undertake ‘segmented’ rather than programme-wide evaluations (smaller thematic studies)

More Related