Fourth CLEAR Global Forum in Mexico City

THEME 1: The role of civil society in the accountability

of public policies and the institutionalization ofEvaluation systems

Influence, Monitoring and Evaluation ProgrammeNovember 17th, 2013

► About CIPPEC► About Argentina’s evaluation context► CIPPEC’s evaluation strategy

► Fostering institutionalization► Strengthening public policies evaluation► Improving CIPPEC’s own approach to evaluation

► What we learnt so far?

Agenda

About CIPPEC

About CIPPEC

► Since 2000, CIPPPEC is a bridge that links high quality independent research in different public policies areas with public policies implementation at national, provincial and local levels.

► CIPPEC “understands the politics behind policies”.

Programmatic approach

Social Development

Education Health Social Protection

Economic Development

Fiscal Policy

Global Integration

and Productive

Develop-ment

Institutional Strenghtening

Justice and Transpar-ency

Gov Manage-ment

Influence, M&E

Local Develop-ment

The national evaluation context

Fragmented and non systematic approach depending more on actors’ will rather than in government enforcement for

evaluation

Exec

utive

Pow

er Efforts since the `80 towards program and plan evaluations specially in Education and Labor sectors

Legi

slati

ve P

ower Runs the National

Audit Agency with responsibility in the field of operational evaluation

Judi

cial

Pow

er Designs and develops some public policies but without evaluation criteria yet Pr

ovin

cies Heterogeneous

scenarios among the 24 jurisdictions with some relevant leaders aiming to reach the next level

CIPPEC’s contribution: mainstreaming

evaluation approach

Fostering institutionalization

Strengthening Public Policies evaluation

Improving CIPPEC’s own approach to

evaluation

PROGRAMA DE INCIDENCIA, MONITOREO Y EVALUACIÓN

Fostering institutionalization

Contributing to the local debate

Influencing decision makers

Networking with Cabinet`s Chief Ministry

Empowering civil society

CIPPEC’s contribution: mainstreaming

evaluation approach

Fostering institutionalization

Strengthening Public Policies evaluation

Improving CIPPEC’s own approach to

evaluation

Strengthening public policies evaluation at regional and national

levels

Evaluability assessments

Institutional evaluations

Impact and outcome

evaluations

PROGRAMA DE INCIDENCIA, MONITOREO Y EVALUACIÓN

Strengthening public policies evaluation at regional and national

levels

Eurosocial

Evaluating impact evaluations policy

impact and uptake

Under what circumstances and how can IEs best contribute to effective development policy and practice?

Impact evaluations will be more influential if they are carried out in an enable environment for knowledge to policy interface

Cohesion

Promotes wide policy dialogue on cohesion

Tool

Institutional cooperationSharing experiencesTechnical assistance

Focus

Knowledge from social policiesSupport to evaluation institutions (Chile, Guatemala, Uruguay)

Data visualization: social protection witness indicators

http://cippec.org/data/

CIPPEC’s contribution: mainstreaming

evaluation approach

Fostering institutionaliz

ation

Strengthening Public Policies

evaluation

Improving CIPPEC’s own approach to evaluation

Improving CIPPEC’s own approach to evaluation

Think tanks’ evaluation

Influence M&E

Impact Sectoral evaluations

Actors

I,M&E | Evaluabilidad de planes y programas

Actores

Organismos internacionales

IIP, OSC y Agencias estatales

Provincias Argentinas

CIPPEC

ProductsProducts ActivitiesActivitiesImpactImpact ResultsResults

LevelsLevels

People’s performancePeople’s performance

Organizational performance

Organizational performance

Sectoral impactSectoral impact

InstitutionalImpact inPublic Policies

InstitutionalImpact inPublic Policies External evaluation as

per Board’s strategic orientation

External evaluation as per Board’s strategic

orientation

Self + management individualevaluation

Self + management individualevaluation

Prorammes’self + ManagementEvaluation

Prorammes’self + ManagementEvaluation

ObjectivesCompetenci

es

Challenges and

opportinities

Addressing programs

contribution to CIPPEC’s mission

Projects’ Monitoring

Projects’ Monitoring PEAP CG de

inicio

CG de seguimient

o

CG de cierre

Achievements

Relevance and influence Quantitative and financial

indicatorsQuality

Planning

CIPPEC’s own M&E system

I,M&E | Evaluabilidad de planes y programas

What we learnt so far?

About the context:Polarized political scenarios is about the government taking leading role in all frontsDevelopment context sets a limit to evaluation development

About our role: Think tanks are perceived as knowledge brokers or institutionalization advocates but not necessarily as independent evaluatorsNo financing for our own evaluation

About evaluation itself: consensus is slowly arising within civil society but resistance to measurement remains active

About who evaluates?:universities are being positioned as independent evaluators

Evaluation culture in Argentina is still

a challenge

Natalia Aquilino

Influence, Monitoring and Evaluation Programme

Director

Thank you

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Programa de Incidencia, Monitoreo & Evaluación