Policy design, impact assessment and evaluation

Ex-post Regulatory Evaluations

This course provides an introduction to the realm of Ex-post Regulatory Evaluations. It explains how to design, manage and monitor the evaluations, regardless of whether these activities are supported by EU funds. The course starts with an optional online session, offered for free, introducing participants to the basic principles standards and elements of Better Regulation (BR).

About this course

  • Is your organisation interested in enforcing their ex-post evaluation function?
  • How can you manage evaluation activities better?
  • How can you ensure high-quality ex-post evaluations?
  • How can evaluation results provide the evidence required for decision-making, and help to improve policies and programmes?

This online course will answer all these questions. Specifically, it will enhance your ability to design, manage and monitor the evaluations conducted by your organisation, irrespective of whether they are supported by EU funds.

Learn how to ensure high-quality ex-post evaluations. First, gain a foundation of good practices in ex-post evaluation through the lessons learned from implementation of the BR Guidelines and Toolbox. Building on this foundation, gain insight into the pillars of a sound evaluation design (the intervention logic, evaluation criteria, evaluation questions and the evaluation matrix). Moreover, learn practical skills for managing evaluation studies and stakeholder engagement. Finally, learn about the latest developments and innovations in evaluation to help keep your evaluations state-of-the-art.

What you will learn in this course:

  • How to manage an ex post evaluation of a legal act;
  • What evaluation design methodologies you can choose from to evaluate legislation.
  • What is state-of-the-art in ex post evaluation of legislation and what the future looks like.

Course methodology/highlights

The course will be led by experts who have decades of both research and practical experience in evaluation in an EU context and beyond.

The course delivery will combine interactive presentations, showcasing practical examples, quick polls to consolidate concepts and quick group exercises.

Learning path on Better Regulation

This course is part of our learning path on Better Regulation. If you prefer to register for one of the other courses of the learning path, please click on Introduction to the Better Regulation Agenda or on Regulatory Impact Assessments.

You can also combine two or more courses in the learning path into one package for a reduced fee. Kindly contact the programme organiser Eveline Hermens for more information.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • evaluate the pros and cons of different evaluation methodologies and tools, and select the ones most relevant to your case;
  • commission and manage meaningful evaluations and ensure the proper use of results;
  • better integrate evaluation into the policy and programming cycle so it is actually used;
  • recognise and identify what makes a good-quality evaluation.

After-course support

You will be given the slides, as well as additional learning material and online resources, to help you apply your new knowledge and skills to your work.

Public officials, civil servants and policy analysts who work in government or parliamentary institutions, in EU Member States or candidate countries, similar to the following:

  • ‘Better Regulation’ committees / programmes
  • centres for research and analysis
  • bureaucracy reduction agencies
  • budget offices
  • councils for regulatory impact assessments

Online Course
For this online course we make use of Zoom

Programme Organiser
Ms Eveline Hermens
Tel: +31 43 3296259
e.hermens@eipa.eu

Discounts
EIPA member fee
EIPA offers a discount to all civil servants working for one of EIPA’s supporting countries, and civil servants working for an EU institution, body or agency

Who are the supporting countries?
Civil servants coming from the following EIPA supporting countries are entitled to get the reduced fee: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden.

For all other participants, the regular fee applies

Early bird discount
The early bird discount is not cumulative with other discounts or promo codes, except for the EIPA member fee.

Who are the supporting countries?
Civil servants coming from the following EIPA supporting countries are entitled to get the reduced fee: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden.

For all other participants, the regular fee applies.

Confirmation
Confirmation of registration will be forwarded to participants on receipt of the completed online registration form.

Payment
Prior payment is a condition for participation.

Cancellation policy
For administrative reasons you will be charged € 50 for cancellations received within 7 days before the activity begins. There is no charge for qualified substitute participants.

EIPA reserves the right to cancel the activity up to 1 week before the starting date. In that case, registration fees received will be fully reimbursed.

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Programme

09.00Welcome and introduction to the course
Jordi del Bas, Evaluation Expert
Regulatory ex post Evaluation (Part I)
09.15What have we learned from evaluating regulatory measures in the context of Better Regulation?
This session sets the ground for the remainder of the course. We will look at what works and where challenges remain. As a starting point, we will use the results of the quality assurance work done by the Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB) and lessons from the implementation of the BR Guidelines and Toolbox in ex post regulatory evaluations of the European Commission.
10.15Break
10.30How to design an ex-post regulatory evaluation (I)
Most weaknesses in the quality of ex post regulatory evaluations originate in the design. This session will look at the pillars of a sound evaluation design (the intervention logic, evaluation criteria, evaluation questions and the evaluation matrix). We will put the focus on good practices and common pitfalls. Group Exercise.
11.30Break
11.45How to design an ex-post regulatory evaluation (II)
What methodological designs are there, and how can I choose the one that fits?
The range of options is, at times, overwhelming. This session gives an overview of different evaluation approaches, their key features, and how and why to use them. The discussion revolves around real-life examples to show the strengths and weaknesses of various evaluation approaches, and ways to design and apply them in practice.
13.00End of the first day
Regulatory ex post Evaluation (Part II)
09.15How to manage ex-post regulatory evaluations: practical tips and considerations (I)
In this session, we will look at quality assurance mechanisms throughout the process, how to manage evaluation studies outsourced to contractors and stakeholder consultation (open and targeted).
10.15Break
10.30How to manage ex-post regulatory evaluations: practical tips and considerations (II)
In this session, we will continue working on stakeholder consultation. We will also look at the quality of evaluation reports and ways to ensure and monitor the use of evaluation results. Group Exercise.
11.30Break
11.45What’s coming up? Latest developments and innovations in evaluation.
State-of-the-art and innovation in evaluating regulatory measures.
The recent OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook (2021) highlights that ‘traditional regulatory management tools, such as regulatory impact assessment (RIA), stakeholder engagement and ex post evaluation need to be adapted to help governments navigate the challenges and the opportunities brought by transformative changes.’ Regulatory interventions increasingly operate in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) contexts. Such contexts result in less predictability, less control, unclear cause-and-effect relations and increasing confusion for organisations. New evaluation approaches are emerging to address this reality. This session will introduce some of these new approaches, which use real-time data, adaptive methods to evaluation, complexity theory and systems thinking.
12.45Evaluation and end of the course by participants.

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Regulatory ex-post Evaluations

4 Oct 2022 - 5 Oct 2022
Online
Register before: 27 Sep 2022

Simultaneous interpretation can be offered. Contact the programme organizer for more information and conditions.

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 450 for EIPA members
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Discount policy

EIPA offers a discount to all civil servants working for one of EIPA’s supporting countries, and civil servants working for an EU institution, body or agency.

Who are the supporting countries?

Civil servants coming from the following EIPA supporting countries are entitled to get the reduced fee: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden.

For all other participants, the regular fee applies.

Early bird discount

For a limited number of training courses, EIPA offers an early bird discount.

For more information please contact us.

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