Key Problems of Policy Evaluation and Comparison of How Various Techniques of Policy Evaluation Overcome Them?

Abstract

Each Public Policy is encircled with an aim to have its projected and expected outcomes turn into a reality. Public policy being an integral part of political and governance process goes through arrangement of stages. This incorporates strategy conceptualisation, plan detailing, policy execution and policy assessment and evaluation (Wholey, 1982). Out of these, policy evaluation is undoubtedly, a crucial phase of policy making process, however regularly being disregarded by planners of the policy (Nachmias D, 1979) due to various reasons pertaining to their interest. Evaluation of public policy is conveying to people who are into policy planning and execution, the accessible information about the related issues, relative viability of past procedures in the policy process, its outcomes details and about the observed adequacy of public policy (Nicholas Henry, 1999:179). Whether the policy has been fruitful or not comes out from the impact evaluation which is a highly pertinent component of the public policy process and bring in the feedback to the policy administrators to let them understand the true and honest impact as well as whether the changes are due to program intervention or other factors.