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Policy Design (2): from Options to Evaluation

18th Nov 2010

Chartered Management Institute logo This course forms part of a CMI Certificate in Leadership and Management

This workshop will guide you through the second half of the policy cycle – generating and appraising options for policy, considering the appropriate delivery chain and deciding on the appropriate way to evaluate the policy.

It builds on Policy design (1) which looked at defining the problem, mapping stakeholders and their influence and the need for evidence based policy.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand how to apply a range of creative thinking techniques to a policy problem in order to develop and present policy options
  • Understand how to appraise options using a variety of tools
  • Understand the complexity of delivering policy and the need to use and understand delivery partners
  • Understand how to plan for evaluation of policy

Programme

9:15
Registration
9:45
Chair’s Introduction
Brian Glickman, Policy Training Consultant (confirmed)
10:00
Option generation
Innovation and creativity exercise
11:50
Refreshments
12:00
Option appraisal
Setting criteria, weighting and scoring, techniques to select the optimum, force field analysis. The ideal and the possible. Workshop on an example.
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Delivery chains
How are we going to deliver the policy? What partnerships will be required?
15:00
Refreshments
15:15
Evaluation, review and continuous improvement
How will we know if we have been successful? What is the baseline? How will we know if the costs of delivery are greater than benefits of achievement?
16:00
Close

Please note that the programme is subject to change without notice

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Comments & Views

“A very enjoyable and interesting course. Many practical ideas I’ll be able to apply at work.”

James Clarke, UK Boarder Agency

“Provided the knowledge and tools I need to do my job efficiently.”

Morayo Awosola, National Weights and Measures Laboratory