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Economics and Public Policy Analysis

Policy Implementation &

Policy Evaluation

Presentation by: Jelly Anne T. Mateo

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Economics and Public Policy Analysis

POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
 What is Policy Implementation?

Represents the stage where government executes an adopted policy as

specified by the legislation or policy action.

At this stage, various government agencies and departments, responsible for the
respective area of policy, are formally made responsible for implementation.

Policy implementation is what happens after a bill becomes law.

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 Why Policy Implementation Matters?

 Effective and efficient policy actions require consideration to

be given to the constraints and challenges of
implementation—preferrably even as the policy is
formulated.

 How well a policy is implemented has

much to do with determining if it is
successful or not!

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The Relationship: Design and Policy Implementation

Better policy can result if policy designers and implementors

address some or all of the following questions:

 Was the design of the policy appropriate given the nature of the
problem?
 Does the design assist or complicate policy implementation?
 Is the agency organizationally capable of administering the program or
policy?
 Can the instruments be effectively implemented?
 Are there political obstacles to effective and efficient implementation?
 What impact will the policy solution, once implemented, have on the
target population?
 How essential are the administrative actors to success of the policy?
 Have potential factors prevented or made difficult policy implementation?
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 Challenges to Policy Implementation

Clarity of policy goals

Information intelligence

Strategic Planning

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POLICY EVALUATION
 What is Policy Evaluation?

A process by which general judgments about quality, goal attainment,

program effectiveness, impact, and costs can be determined

Elected officials, policy makers, community leaders, bureaucrats, and the

public want to know what policies work and what policies don't.

The purpose of evaluation is to determine whether an implemented program is

doing what it is supposed to.

We can determine whether a policy's effects are intended or unintended and whether
the results are positive or negative for the target population and society as a whole.

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 Four Types of Policy Evaluation

Process Evaluation
• analyzes how well a policy or program is being administered

Outcome Evaluation
• focuses more on the readily available and tangible results of policy. 

Impact Evaluation
• to determine whether or not a given public policy or program is in fact achieving the
intended impact as visualized by the various policy actors who either supported or
opposed the given policy

Cost-Benefit Analysis
• A method with which to evaluate and assess the effectiveness of a policy's costs, benefits,
and outcomes

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 Barriers to Effective Policy Evaluation

Goal Specification Efficiency and

Measurement Targets
and Goal Change Effectiveness

Increasing
Values and
Politics Requirements
Evaluation
for Evaluation

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 Essential Activities in the Evaluation Process

Identification of goals and objectives of the program or policy to make

measurement possible.
Comprehension of the mission statement or noting the absence of one.
Construction of an analytic model of what hte program or policy is expected
to achieve; this includes a set of theoretical propositions about means-ends
relationships.
Development of a research design to distinguish
program or policy goals from what is actually
achieved.
Collection of data or actual measurement.
Analysis and interpretation of data.
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THANK YOU!

Presentation by: Jelly Anne T. Mateo

Reference: https://courses.worldcampus.psu.edu/welcome/plsc490/lesson05_01.html