This course will enhance your ability to design, manage and monitor the evaluations conducted by your organisation, irrespective of whether they are supported by EU funds. It will answer the following questions:

• Is your organisation interested in enforcing their ex-post evaluation function?
• How can you manage evaluation activities better?
• How can you ensure high-quality ex-post evaluations?
• How can evaluation results provide the evidence required for decision-making, and help to improve policies and programmes?

Learn how to ensure high-quality ex-post evaluations. First, gain a foundation of good practices in ex-post evaluation through the lessons learned from implementation of the BR Guidelines and Toolbox. Building on this foundation, gain insight into the pillars of a sound evaluation design (the intervention logic, evaluation criteria, evaluation questions and the evaluation matrix). Moreover, learn practical skills for managing evaluation studies and stakeholder engagement. Finally, learn about the latest developments and innovations in evaluation to help keep your evaluations state-of-the-art.

What you will learn in this course:

• How to manage an ex-post evaluation of a legal act;
• What evaluation design methodologies you can choose from to evaluate
• What is state-of-the-art in ex post evaluation of legislation and what the future looks

Course methodology/highlights

The course will be led by experts who have decades of both research and practical experience in evaluation in an EU context and beyond.

The course delivery will combine interactive presentations, showcasing practical examples, quick polls to consolidate concepts and quick group exercises.

Other courses in this series are: Introduction to the Better Regulation Agenda | Regulatory Impact Assessments | Stakeholder Consultation in the Context of Better Regulation