Under the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS), a college of Hamad Bin Khalifa University, the Public Policy in Islam Programme recently held a ‘Policy and Program Evaluation’ workshop. The three-day workshop took place at the LAS building within Education City last week and was attended by 31 participants.
The workshop concentrated on the key steps in evaluation and introduced participants to logic models, needs assessments and determining evaluation measures, and designing methods and data collection. Participants worked on a number of case studies, individually and collaboratively analysing several case study programmes executed in Qatar, Gulf region and internationally. The workshop then concluded with participants displaying and discussing their presentations.
The workshop was presented by Dr Leslie Pal, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy and Administration, and co-Director of the Centre on Governance and Public Management at Carleton University.
Dr Pal described programme evaluation as the systematic assessment of the operations and/or outcomes of a programme or policy, and the systematic collection of information about the activities, characteristics, and outcomes of programmes in order to improve program effectiveness.
During the closing ceremony, Dr Evren Tok, Coordinator of the Public Policy in Islam Program at QFIS, highlighted the importance of the tools, techniques and information necessary for effective programme management and evaluation within Islamic framework.
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