Course on Evaluating Social Programs in Cambridge, MA

What makes a good evaluation? What makes a bad one? MIT’s Poverty Action Lab has developed an executive education program to educate practitioners on the ideas and statistics behind successful evaluation. The course provides participants with the necessary knowledge and training to scientifically test the accountability of development programs. A wide variety of examples will be discussed, from fields as diverse as education, health, decentralization and infrastructure projects. Participants will walk away with a new understanding of the broad issues related to randomized evaluation as well as the specific requirements necessary to implement their own successful ones. This should help everyone, be they heads of NGOs or managers in donor organizations, to become better consumers and producers of evaluations.

This course was last held March 21-25th.