- Lesya Ilchenko-Syuyva, Kyiv-Mohyla School of Governance, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine, lesya.ilchenko@gmail.com
Associate Professor, Kyiv-Mohyla School of Governance, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine. Lesya worked for the Economic Policy Department, National Academy of Public Administration, Office of the President of Ukraine for more than 20 years. She worked as an adviser in policy analysis and financial policy for various technical assistance projects provided by USAID, CIDA, and UNDP and participated in training projects provided by Wales University, World Bank etc. in CEE and Balkan countries. She has wide experience in designing and delivering training courses for multi-ethnic groups. She has more than 100 publications which include monographs, articles, and research and policy papers.- Jaroslav Dvorak, Klaipeda University, Klaipeda, Lithuania, Jaroslav.dvorak@ku.lt
Dr. Jaroslav Dvorak is Head of the Department of Public Administration and Political Sciences and has longstanding research experience in evidence-based public policy making. He has also prepared and published scientific publications on these subjects. Jaroslav Dvorak is the coordinator of the three study programmes: Bachelor in Public Administration, Master in Regional Governance, Master in National Security Studies. Jaroslav Dvorak contributed to the preparation of the Inventory of the Public Administration profession for the Study Quality Assessment Centre in Lithuania. He is visiting assoc. professor at University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Jaroslav Dvorak is involved in the editorial board of international scientific journals. Some recent publications can be found in such books: City Diplomacy (2020) Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy; The Routledge Handbook of Nonprofit Communication. He is chair of NGOs council at Klaipeda city municipality and member of the research board at People Powered.- Mihaela Victorita Carausan, National School of Political Sciences and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania, mihaela.carausan@administratiepublica.eu
Mihaela V. Cărăuşan held positions in the government; in the nongovernmental sector; and in academia. Presently, she is Vicedean at the Faculty of Public Administration, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration and Executive Director at the Association Centre of Academic Excellence.Her professional development includes trainings followed at the Centre International de Formation Européenne from Nice, France (1998), Venice Commission – Council of Europe (2001 and 2007), the Romanian Institute of Diplomacy (2010) and Complutense University of Madrid (2013).
Carausan has published widely in the areas of administrative law, street-level bureaucracy, regulatory impact assessment, citizens’ participation and public integrity. Her recent research has focused on monitoring and evaluation of public procurement, and she authored more than 50 articles and books in the areas of interests. She collaborates with different journals as member of the scientific committees or as reviewer. Dr. Carausan received her PhD from the University of Craiova in European Union law and her Master’s from the University "NicolaeTitulescu”. She coordinated different Romanian and European research and educational projects, and she is a member of the American Society of Public Administration, American Evaluation Association and European Law Institute.
Report
The Working Group on Evidence-Based Public Policy Making continues its work under the umbrella of NISPAcee Annual Conferences. This year, the WG on PP registered eight applications in the main fields of interest (environmental challenges, cost-effectiveness analysis, evidence-based approach regarding school quarantine, development of private pension funds, vaccination of public sector employees, evidence-based migration policy in Kosovo, remunicipalization, higher education policy values). Unfortunately, one accepted paper was not presented due to the war in Ukraine, but the other seven papers remained on the list, with one exception being online. The papers were organised for presentation within the conference in two sessions but due to some participants’ delay the third session was organized on the next day.
Despite the war in Ukraine challenges, the WG managed to remain a constructive forum of discussion for academic and other policy stakeholders. Through experience exchange on how we can meet the daily necessities, we shared good practices on environmental, and higher education policies and determined urgent local needs for policy guidance within different countries. Furthermore, within the group sessions, the necessity to reopen the discussions on the development issues in public policies and the lessons learned in building public policies arose as areas which may be of high interest to the Eurasian states (such as Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan) and not only.
All the announced participants were present at the conference. As a result, the quality of the presentations was reasonable and according to the scientific criteria. According to the discussion's results, the WG decided to continue the work in a multi-disciplinary format concentrating on public policy development, evidence-based, strategic management issues and public policy interventions.