This elective course introduces students to the challenges that policy makers, managers, non-profit managers, and political leaders face to improve effectiveness and impact of public programs and investments. It is designed to help you to think in a critical and creative manner about the challenges of designing, monitoring and evaluating public programs.
The course covers aspects such as building a theory of change to assess a program and improve it, which data to collect, thinking about implementing evidence-based changes, differences between monitoring and evaluation, and understanding the variety of approaches for assessing and improving public programs. Accordingly, there will be discussion based on case studies and the course will be highly interactive in its design and be run more like a workshop than a seminar.
The course is designed to help you think creatively and critically about designing, monitoring and evaluation, and its main principle is to assess and improve public programs and investments made by governments as well as by NGOs. It aims at equipping the students with the understanding of what does it mean to build and implement in practice a monitoring and evaluation system, how to do so in the most cost-effective manner, and how to do so in a manner that generates feedback and allows to improve efficiency and effectiveness of programs implemented by NGO or public investments made by Government. Students will gain sufficient insights to be able to understand if a MandE system is appropriate (“right fit”) for the purpose to improve the effectiveness.
Instructor
Leonardo Lacovone
Teaching style
The course will mix different teaching strategies. There will be lectures in a seminar style and group discussions based on case studies. The course will be highly interactive in its design and will involve significant amount of interactions with other students.
Exam
To validate the 3 ECTS, students need to prepare readings (approx. 200 pages), a pre-assignment if applicable, attend all sessions and prepare an assignment after the course.
CBS samarbejder med Hertie School i Berlin
MPG har et samarbejde med Hertie School i Berlin. Det betyder, at du som MPG-studerende har mulighed for at følge et fag på et udenlandsk universitet, der kan indgå som et valgfag på MPG uddannelsen. CBS står for den officielle del af udvekslingsaftalen og den praktiske del i forhold til tilmelding. Du skal selv sørge for overnatning og transport.
Bemærk venligst at rettidig framelding til dette fag er 4 uger før undervisningsstart.
Karakter
Eksamen skal gennemføres på Hertie School i Berlin, for at resultatet kan gælde som en del af din MPG. Rent praktisk får du merit for faget i Berlin og det kommer til at fremstå som meritoverført på dit endelige eksamensbevis med bedømmelsen "bestået/ikke bestået".
