Making Impact Evaluations of Social Programs Work

Even though new and better statistics and econometric techniques to measure the impact of social programs have been recently developed, still we lack sufficient rigorous evaluations to improve social policy-making. Most of the time it is clear which evaluation methodology should be applied to an evaluation, yet evaluations rarely get to an end or its implementation fails because of political, budgetary, operative, or other problems interfered, and the challenges were not surmounted. The Inter-American Conference on Social Security (CISS), the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), the Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social (CONEVAL) and UNDP Mexico, are jointly organizing the conference “Making Impact Evaluations of Social Programs Work”.

Questions such as: Who demanded the evaluation? Where did the funds come from? What where the problems that surged when selecting the methodology for evaluation? How was the information necessary for the powerful calculations obtained? What were the problems faced when implementing the base line? Were control groups respected? How were the evaluation’s results used? Were there political pressures for the implementation of the evaluation and to accept its results? Will be approached by international experts.

If you wish to attend this conference please register at www.ciss.org.mx