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Quantitative Impact Assessment Workshop/Fundamentals
QIA Workshop - Session 1 - Fundamentals
Recording
Session 1 - Fundamentals / Éléments fondamentaux (YouTube)
Agenda | March 19 | 9:00am - 12:00pm ET
| Introduction | Opening Remarks | Don Wilson | |
| Module 1 | Policy context of performance measurement and evaluation (including the Policy on Results, Canada Gender Budgeting Act, and Quality of Life Framework for Canada) | Joe Faragone, Leyla Shahid, and Hope Tuff-Berg | Presentation [click here] |
| Module 2 | Quantitative impact assessment: An overview of QIA concepts | Aneta Bonikowska | Presentation [click here] |
| Module 3 | The gold standard in QIA – randomized controlled experiments | Aneta Bonikowska | Presentation [click here] |
| Module 4 | Common approaches to QIA | Aneta Bonikowska | Presentation [click here] |
Questions and Answers
List of questions and answers [click here]
Questions and answers are recorded in the language in which they were provided.
Meet the Presenters!
Don Wilson
Don Wilson is the Executive Director of the Horizontal Program Reviews Division in the Treasury Board Secretariat. Don has an extensive policy background that includes 15 years in the Department of Finance as well as positions in a range of economic and social departments. He also served for three years as Canada’s senior liaison to the financial sector in New York. Since joining TBS in 2018, he managed the Horizontal Review of Skills Programming and led the policy function in the Results Division.
Joe Faragone
Joe Faragone is the Manager (Senior Policy Advisor) for the Policy on Results at Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat providing advice and interpretation of the Policy and managing its review. He previously worked at a number of departments in the areas of managing for results, policy, program management, and operations; most recently as the A/Director, Results-Based Management Division at the Public Health Agency of Canada. He has a PhD in Public Administration and continues to research performance in the public sector and is an active member of the Performance and Planning Exchange (PPX).
Leyla Shahid
Leyla Shahid is Senior Policy Analyst at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS), where she works to analyse and report on the gender and diversity impacts of Government of Canada expenditure programs enterprise-wide per the requirements set forth in the Canadian Gender Budgeting Act. Prior to TBS, Leyla worked at Women and Gender Equality Canada on Gender-based Analysis Plus methodology and capacity, and the Public Health Agency of Canada on HIV/Hep C and Harm Reduction programs.
Hope Tuff-Berg
Hope Tuff-Berg (she/her) is a Policy Analyst on the Quality of Life team within the Expenditure Management Sector at TBS. She supports engagement activities with domestic, international and indigenous stakeholders to exchange knowledge on quality of life approaches to decision-making and measurement to help inform government processes.
Aneta Bonikowska
Aneta Bonikowska is a senior research analyst with the Social Analysis and Modelling Division at Statistics Canada. Her research interests lie at the intersection of immigration and skills and educational attainment. She has also conducted research on the gender earnings gap and subjective well-being. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia.
