impact evaluation for public management
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For a Safer Latin America: a New Perspect...
CAF's 2014 Economy and Development Report proposes a new approach to understand insecurity and violence from the analysis of the elements that make up a criminal event (individual in special circums...
our contribution
We seek to promote the use of impact measurements and social experimentation as a public management tool, and we encourage the learning process for both public policies and public management initiatives, independently of whether there is a CAF financial product associated to the project, with the goal of consolidating a deeper knowledge footprint that contributes with a decision making process increasingly based on evidence.
Science applied to the evaluation of public policies allows us to see what the real problems of society are, and if the solutions provided will help. Without empiric evidence, knowledge, and applied science, evaluations are not effective&n...
25 de April de 2017
Up to eight proposals from the Latin American and Caribbean public sector will be selected to receive free advice from a highly qualified team, to design and implement a rigorous impact evaluation. Priority will be given to proposals deali...
29 de December de 2016
CAF carried out an impact evaluation to learn about the effects of different incentives on the formalization of entrepreneurs in Bolivia.
28 de September de 2016
An experiment in the Municipality of Sucre, in Venezuela, explored the effect of using summons (threat of a lawsuit) and notifications to prove the most effective mechanism to collect taxes.
13 de September de 2016
Sixty-one public management proposals were received from 32 national and ten territorial entities. The winners were the ministries of Education and Culture, the Administrative Department of the Public Function, the Economic Development Sec...
