Untitled Deck Flashcards
What is one of the basic processes in public policy studies?
The follow-up and evaluation of public policies.
What determines the speed and efficiency of the response to sudden changes?
The ability of policy programs and projects to follow up and evaluate themselves.
What does implementation measure?
What do we need to measure in order to know what we are doing?
What does follow-up mean?
It means that a periodic process takes place during the period of implementation of a policy, or during the project or program, at specific intervals.
What is a characteristic of follow-up?
Continuous process throughout the activities of a plan.
What must there be for effective follow-up?
A set of indicators that are relied upon in carrying out follow-up to see if the implementation of public policy plans and projects.
What are the main indicators of follow-up?
Quality, Time, and Cost.
What does quality mean in the context of follow-up?
It means the implementation of the planned works in accordance with the specifications of the implementation procedures, and not to deviate from them.
What does cost indicate in follow-up?
Indicators of costs are related to identifying the soundness of financial procedures, and not delaying the arrival or spending of financing payments.
What is necessary for building a follow-up system?
Preparation of a readiness measurement study.
What is one of the functions of follow-up?
To be a tool in the hands of project supervisors to know the status of implementation.
What must follow-up information and data be?
Simple, accurate, and truthfully expressive of reality.
What is a model concept?
A simplified summary of the plan or project that shows the main sections or different elements of the project and the relationships between them.
What does evaluation mean?
Any activity based on scientific methods, and aims to evaluate the processes associated with public policies and their effects.
What is important for the development of state institutions?
Knowing why a public policy succeeds or fails.
What are indicators of follow-up?
Quality, Time, and Cost.
What does the evaluation of plans include?
Looking at several aspects of the plans, including: Making the plan, Implementing the plan, and Effects and results of the plan.
What is one of the characteristics of good follow-up and evaluation?
Questions must be measurable in the sense of being able to answer them with quantitative indicators that can be measured.
