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Relevance
Does the intervention respond to needs and priorities?
Public policy and programme evaluation
EMK Consulting assesses the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and impact of public policies and programmes — direct-support schemes, subsidies, housing, agricultural or enterprise-support programmes — and turns findings into operational recommendations.
Understanding the challenge
Evaluating a public programme requires connecting administrative data, field surveys, economic analysis and institutional understanding. Our approach combines quantitative and qualitative methods, interviews with beneficiaries and implementing actors, and rigorous budget analysis, to produce defensible conclusions and realistic guidance.
Our framework
The six OECD DAC criteria
Our evaluations follow the OECD Development Assistance Committee criteria — the framework used by international funders and, increasingly, by public contracting authorities. Each criterion is broken down into evaluation questions, indicators and data sources from the inception note onwards.
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Coherence
How well does it fit with other policies and instruments?
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Effectiveness
Are the objectives and expected results being achieved?
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Efficiency
Are resources being used in an optimal way?
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Impact
What lasting effects — positive or negative, direct or not?
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Sustainability
Will the benefits last beyond the programme?
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Frame
Objectives, scope, governance
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Analyse
Data, documents, benchmarks
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Field
Interviews, surveys, visits
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Recommend
Findings, scenarios, costing
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Transfer
Debrief, tools, capabilities
How we can support
Evaluation of public programmes and schemes
Relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of direct-support, subsidy and assistance programmes, at mid-term or completion.
Beneficiary and stakeholder surveys
Sampling design, questionnaires, household and enterprise surveys, interviews and focus groups with beneficiaries, operators, financial institutions and administrations.
Economic and budget analysis
Cost-effectiveness, budget cost, tax expenditure, sustainability and socio-economic impact of support schemes.
Housing and urban development
Evaluation of housing and homeownership-support programmes, territorial supply-demand balance, quality and urban integration of delivered projects.
Process and management-platform audit
Application journeys, controls, processing times, information systems and digital platforms managing support schemes.
Forward-looking scenarios and recommendations
Options for evolution, targeting, governance and roadmaps beyond the end of the programme.
What the assignment should enable
Defensible findings
Traceable conclusions grounded in data and explicit methods.
Realistic recommendations
Guidance connected to capabilities, budgets and institutional constraints.
Informed decisions
Costed scenarios to extend, adjust or redirect the scheme.
Questions commonly addressed
Public policy and programme evaluation
- How should a final or mid-term evaluation be structured?
- How can reliable beneficiary surveys be organised?
- How can the impact and budget cost of a support scheme be measured?