Santo Domingo, Oct. 21 (Prensa Latina) Experts participating in the first International Development Assessment Forum in the Dominican Republic today agreed on the importance of monitoring and assessing the scope of public policies.
The event, organized by the Ministry of Economy and Planning, was attended by the 2919th Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences, American Michael Kremer, whose research focuses on assessment methods and tools.
During the closing ceremony, the country’s Vice President, Raquel Peña, expressed that valuing public programs and policies is an investment in the future of the Caribbean state, as it helps to ensure that resources are used effectively, that there is transparency and that this is the case to satisfy people’s needs.
Peña emphasized the importance of promoting and strengthening evaluation capacities in institutions, which, he said, implies a sustained investment in the training of professionals.
Participants at the three-day forum agreed on the need to follow up on the actions taken and to determine the impact and progress of the programs based on the evidence and data provided by the calculations.
The meeting, in turn, served as a framework for training to develop the workshop on national assessment systems in the region, moderated by the Dominican Vice Minister of Planning and Public Investment, Luis Madera.
Likewise, the head of the social statistics department of the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC), Xavier Mancero, and the deputy director general of the National Statistics Office (ONE), Augusto de los Santos, spoke about innovations in the production of estimates for decision-making.
The forum emphasized the importance of evaluations in childhood and education, as well as the role of information systems and data production in the implementation of public policies.
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