Program Design and Evaluation

O.P. Jindal Global University via Coursera

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7 weeks, 7 hours a week
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Explore how international organizations shape global governance, international cooperation, and policy regimes. This course is designed for learners interested in international relations, global governance, public policy, development, economics, and related fields who want to understand how global institutions address complex cross-border challenges. Build a strong foundation in the evolution and significance of international organizations, from the League of Nations to the United Nations. Examine internationalism, global public goods, UN principles, governance structures, and the UN Charter. Develop a deeper understanding of international organization theories, including realism, liberalism, Marxism, constructivism, and feminism. Explore how international organizations function as actors, fora, and resources in global governance. Learn how international rulemaking, regulation, transparency, inclusivity, partnerships, and different state and non-state actors shape global governance. Explore development and finance institutions, including the World Bank, IMF, regional development banks, and other financial systems. Examine international trade, regional integration, labor and migration, refugee governance, climate change, global health, sustainable development, and human rights. Gain the knowledge and analytical perspective to understand how international organizations respond to major global challenges. Enroll now to strengthen your understanding of international organizations, global policy regimes, and the systems shaping international cooperation.

Syllabus

Why Public Policy?
- In this module, you will learn how public policy, when conceptualized, must be operationalized through a project or program. You will know how operationalization involves designing a program or project and solving the problem of coordination failure. You will learn about the coordination framework to engage various stakeholders, often with conflicting interests regarding the problem and its solution. You will analyze collective action to reduce the conflict zone in the process.
Fundamental Issues in Designing a Project or Program
- In this module, you will learn about two fundamental processes of a program or project. First, you will gain an understanding of the control types that vary across resources and lead to project design that can take care of the property rights of resources that cannot be better managed using private property regimes. Second, you will learn about the requirement to think and apply various ways of assigning property rights. You will explore how a properly designed project takes care of these two fundamental processes.
Theoretical Basis of Program Design
- In this module, you will learn how a program theory relates to two components of a program. You will know that the first component develops the change theory, the normative part, and how it identifies the main features to be changed through the program to achieve the planned changes. Further, you will learn about the second component that involves the action theory, the operational part, to bring about changes to be pursued. The module focuses on these two components and provides the fundamental, conceptual, and operational basis for giving a program its intended outcomes.
Designing a Program
- In this module, you will learn about the specific steps in a program design and how to implement a designed program. You will learn about the specific phases of designing a program, integrating the two components of the program theory. You will also examine how the different components of program design mechanics are integrated into a complete holistic program framework.
Logical Framework: An Operational Perspective
- This module focuses on the logical framework. You will learn how it evolved during the evaluation exercises over the last five decades. You will explore how it is considered a logical structure that links project design, implementation, and evaluation in a single but linear perspective to facilitate the program to achieve its desired goals.
Program Evaluation
- This module focuses on the evaluation of a program that is generally concerned about its merit or worth. From an analytical perspective, you will learn that they need not always fetch the same results. You will analyze that while merit investigates the intrinsic value created by the program for the intended beneficiaries, worth looks at the extrinsic value of the program offered to those who are paying for the intervention. Hence, the two approaches may not always yield the same results. The module also discusses the fundamental difference between research and evaluation regarding their intended goals.
Evaluation Criteria
- Programs were made a concrete component of international development cooperation measures. The International Development Practitioners were keen to know the development effectiveness of the programs implemented by different agencies. So, the operational perspectives of the evaluation processes were mainly developed by those engaged with the Development Advisory Council of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). They came out with five specific evaluation criteria in 1992, which were recently modified in 2020, and added one more criterion, with some of the existing ones being modified.