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Opening Lecture: The importance of methodologies for assessing policy impacts
Prof. Eduardo Luiz Gonçalves Rios-Neto, PhD
Professor of Demography and researchers at the Cedeplar/Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) since 1980. Currently the head of the Demography Department of UFMG. He has a Ph.D. in Demography from the University of California/Berkeley and postdoctoral from Texas-Austin University (1995-1996). He is a member of the Council for Economic and Social Development of Minas Gerais, linked to the Department of Planning and Management of Minas Gerais (SEPLAG).
Short course I: Introduction to Policy Evaluation
Elettra Ronchi,PhD
- Policy evaluation's aims and scope
- Major concepts in policy evaluation
- Types of evaluation and their purpose
- Toolbox: Most common qualitative and quantitative methods and approaches
- Developing smart indicators
- Data collection challenges
- The politics of evidence and threats to validity
- Criteria to ensure the quality of an evaluation report
- Communicating results
Elettra Ronchi, PhD, MPP, is Senior Policy Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris where she co-ordinates work on the digital economy, health and ageing. Has more than 20 years’ experience as policy analyst, evaluating the instruments available to governments to improve the public benefits from investments in health, science and technology. She received her PhD from the Rockefeller University/Cornell Medical School (US), and MPP from the University of York (UK).
Short course II: What is quality in quantitative research?
Prof. Pamela Campanelli, PhD
- The quality debate;
- Challenges of assessing quality;
- Formal and informal criteria for assessing quality;
- Applying criteria on the design, conduction and analysis of research outcomes.
Dr. Pamela Campanelli is a Survey Methods Consultant, Chartered Statistician and Chartered Scientist. She received her Ph.D. in statistics from the London School of Economics, and an M.A. in applied social research and B.A. in psychology from the University of Michigan. Pamela has worked at the University of Michigan and the Center for Survey Methods Research at the US Bureau of the Census and has worked as a Chief Research Officer at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex and a Research Director at the Survey Methods Centre at the National Centre for Social Research, London.
Short course III: National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF)
Sabine Warschburger,PhD
- Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics;
- Good practices on quality assurance;
- National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF): concepts, contributions from the expert group, other frameworks;
- Quality assessment and reporting: some tools.
Dr. Sabine Warschburger graduated in Economics in Saarbrücken. As a member of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), she received her PhD in May 2000 from the University of Dortmund. Since May 2000 is part of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) staff in New York.
Panel:National experiences in implementing quality assurance
- IBGE (Brasil) - Zélia Magalhães Bianchini
- INEGI (México) - Héctor Manuel Nambo Caro
- INE (Chile) - Charles Durán Artigas