PHASE II REGULATORY IMPACT ASSESSMENT (RIA) MANUAL TRAINING

TRAINING SCHEDULE AND BRIEFER

Please see below the Training Schedule for the 2022 Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) Manual Training for your agency. You
belong to Batch 2 which will undergo the training program from 19 April – 26 July 2022:

DATE MODULE DESCRIPTION EXPECTED OUTPUTS

Welcome
To formally open the training program, a welcome
Ceremony/Pre-Work
19 April 2022 ceremony and workshop shall be conducted to establish
Activities  Identification of
rapport with the participants and initiate pre-work
policy problems
1:00 – 5:00PM activities that will help them identify regulations which
Attendance:
may be subjected to RIA.
REQUIRED
This module aims to make the participants familiar with
the broad or general information about RIA; the rationale  Definition of policy
RIA Overview for conducting it; the processes, and; assessment tools problem and
26-29 April 2022 objectives
that could be used to evaluate the impacts of a proposed
Attendance: regulation.  Identification of
1:00 – 5:00 PM
REQUIRED policy
The overview will prepare the participants for the in- options/alternatives
depth and comprehensive discussion of RIA.
Checkpoint
Consultation
06 May 2022 The assigned Better Regulations Office – Sectoral  Revised output from
Division shall provide comments and feedback on the the RIA Overview
Attendance:
1:00 – 2:00 PM outputs completed by the participating agencies. Module
REQUIRED

This module centers its discussion on stakeholder

engagement as part of the core values of public
Stakeholder
participation. It also guides the participants through the  List of stakeholders
Engagement and
10-13 May 2022 relevant process. and corresponding
Consultation
stakeholder map
1:00 – 5:00 PM As this is an immersive training program, participants will  Draft stakeholder
Attendance:
analyze stakeholders of a particular regulatory issue and engagement plan
REQUIRED
assess their current stakeholder engagement practices
before producing a draft stakeholder engagement plan.
 The module shall provide participants with brief
presentations on the analytical lenses identified in the
RIA Manual. It shall help the agency and the Authority
 Identification of
Overview of Analytical identify which analytical lense/s will be applicable to the
17-20 May 2022 applicable analytical
Lenses conduct of RIA for their identified regulation.
lenses for
Attendance:
1:00 – 5:00 PM incorporation into the
REQUIRED The four analytical lenses to be briefly discussed include:
agency’s RIA
(1) Gender and Social Inclusion Impact Assessment; (2)
Competition Impact Assessment; (3) Disaster Risk
Impact Assessment; (4) Environment Assessment

The focus of this training is on ex-ante Benefit Cost  Identification of costs

Analysis (BCA) for proposed regulations. It is concerned and benefits for each
with the question: Would this policy produce a positive policy
net social benefit? Would it be wise to allocate resources options/alternative
Benefit Cost Analysis
24-27 May 2022 for this project? Ex-ante BCA involves the prediction and
 Quantification of
valuation of future impacts.
Attendance: costs and benefits
1:00 – 5:00 PM
REQUIRED
It involves calculating the streams of benefits and costs  Computation of Net
accruing over the life of a policy or project. It requires the Present Value and
translation of future benefits and costs into their recommendation of
equivalent value at present. policy option

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is often

suggested as an alternative to Cost Benefit Analysis
 Identification of
(CBA), particularly where significant benefits are difficult,
qualitative criteria
or expensive to quantify in monetary terms.
31 May - 03 Multi-Criteria Decision and corresponding
June 2022 Analysis weights and values.
MCDA plays a vital role in assisting government
 Evaluation of each
decision-makers caught up in intricate decision-making
1:00 – 5:00 PM Attendance: policy option through
situations with multiple and most of the time, competing
REQUIRED qualitative analysis
regulation alternatives that stakeholders value
and recommendation
differently. This module introduces MCDA not only as an
of a policy option
alternative but also as a complementary approach in
regulatory design.
 This module focuses on the use of Standard Cost Model
 Quantification of
(SCM) in assessing policy options for regulation. SCM is
savings using SCM
a method for estimating the administrative cost imposed
 Identification of
Standard Cost Model by regulations. It is a useful instrument in reducing the
7-10 June 2022 opportunities for
cost of doing business through administrative
administrative
Attendance: simplification and reduction of red tape.
1:00 – 5:00 PM simplification
REQUIRED
The module is designed to provide a deep dive into  Evaluation of each
providing participants with the ability to conduct analysis policy option using
on existing administrative procedures. SCM
Checkpoint
 Revised outputs
15 June 2022 Consultation The assigned Better Regulations Office – Sectoral
from the BCA,
Division shall provide comments and feedback to the
1:00 – 2:00 PM MCDA, and SCM
Attendance: outputs completed by the participating agencies.
Modules
REQUIRED
The Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Impact
Assessment (GESIIA) includes social impact analysis
and highlights the ways through which vulnerabilities of
 Identify gender and
certain groups are compounded. When applied to
social inclusion
regulatory policies, GESIIA helps make certain that
issues relevant to a
distributional aspects of the reform are considered.
Gender and Social regulatory policy
Inclusion Impact problem.
21-24 June The training aims to familiarize the participants with the
Assessment  Apply the tool and its
2022 GESIIA as an important part of RIA and the Regulatory
worksheets to
Impact Statement; the rationale for conducting it, and;
Attendance: assess a proposed
the processes and assessment tools that could be used
Depending on ARTA’s or existing regulatory
1:00 – 5:00 PM to evaluate the gender-related impacts of a proposed or
assessment of policy.
actual regulation on various groups, particularly those
enrolled regulation
often excluded or overlooked in policy-making  Formulate possible
processes. GESIIA inputs to the
Regulatory Impact
It also intends to provide the participants with practice Statement.
sessions to build their capacity to apply the GESIIA to
actual (either proposed or existing) regulatory policies.
28 June – 01 Competition Impact This module focuses on the introduction and application  Apply Competition
July 2022 Assessment of the Competition Impact Assessment (CIA) in Impact Assessment
 assessing policy options for regulation. CIA is a to select policies
1:00 – 5:00 PM Attendance: quantitative method that can be used to assess the which adversely
Depending on ARTA’s impact which a regulation or policy may have on impact competition
assessment of competition in a target market or industry.  Look into use of CIA
enrolled regulation in the broader
context of
conducting
Regulatory Impact
Assessment
 Increased
knowledge and
understanding of the
participants on the
application of
Disaster Risk Impact Disaster Risk
Assessment Existing or new regulatory policies may have an impact Assessment (DRA)
5-8 July 2022 on Disaster Risk Management (DRM) objectives and to proposed or
Attendance: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) goals. Hence, it is existing regulations
1:00 – 5:00 PM Depending on ARTA’s important that agencies undertake Disaster Risk Impact of participants’
assessment of Assessment. affiliated agencies
enrolled regulation  Accomplished DRA
tool concerning a
proposed or existing
regulation within the
participants’
respective agencies.
 Data on the baseline
Environmental environment
The module aims to contribute to the conduct of RIA by
Assessment including a list of
ensuring that environmental and natural resources
12-15 July 2022 environmental and
issues are integrated into the regulatory decision-making
Attendance: natural resources
process. It has been noted that environmental
1:00 – 5:00 PM Depending on ARTA’s issues and
consequences of regulations are given adequate
assessment of constraints relevant
attention compared to social and economic ones.
enrolled regulation to the regulation
under consideration
  List of actions
relevant to the
regulation being
subjected to RIA
 List of agreed
measures, if any, to
enhance the
regulation to make it
responsive to
environmental and
natural resources
considerations.
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is an equally important
part in RIA process. It enables policymakers and
Monitoring and government agencies to track the progress in the
19-22 July 2022 Evaluation implementation of regulatory policies and take corrective  Formulate
actions if necessary. Monitoring and
1:00 – 5:00 PM Attendance: Evaluation Plan
REQUIRED This module will acquaint the participants to the basics
of M&E and will enable them to draw up effective M&E
plans for their proposed regulatory policies.
Ways Forward The activity shall discuss key post-training requirements
26 July 2022
and activities such as the submission of agencies’ action
Attendance: plans, preliminary impact statement and regulatory
1:00 – 5:00 PM
REQUIRED impact statement.