This course aims to enhance participants’ ability to analyze social policies and assess their impact on vulnerable groups such as children, women, persons with disabilities, and low-income communities.
The training introduces analytical tools from a social justice and inclusion perspective and offers practical methodologies for assessing social and economic impacts.
Through hands-on exercises and case studies, participants will learn how to formulate evidence-based policy recommendations that ensure no one is left behind.
Vulnerable populations often face systemic barriers to accessing fair and effective public services and protections. This requires inclusive and evidence-informed policy analysis.
This course provides a structured framework for evaluating whether social policies meet the real needs of marginalized groups and how they can be improved.
It blends both qualitative and quantitative methods, emphasizing participatory approaches and a rights-based policy perspective relevant to national and local contexts.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
• Definition and goals of social policies
• Who are vulnerable groups? Criteria and classification
• Dimensions of vulnerability: economic, social, gender-based
• The link between poverty, exclusion, and social disadvantage
• Examples of successful and failed social policies
• Analytical frameworks in public policy
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis tools
• Assessing institutional, political, and social context
• Data collection and interpretation on vulnerable populations
• Indicators of equity and social justice
• Differences between monitoring, evaluation, and impact assessment
• Approaches to impact evaluation: experimental, participatory, comparative
• Designing impact assessments for vulnerable groups
• Methodological challenges in measuring social change
• Using evidence to guide policy recommendations
• Principles of community participation in policy-making
• Strategies for inclusive outreach and engagement
• Gathering feedback and public opinion
• Empowering vulnerable groups to influence policy decisions
• Case studies from Libya and the Arab region
• Key principles for inclusive, responsive policy design
• Incorporating international human rights frameworks into national policies
• Drafting policy recommendations based on analysis
• Developing an analytical matrix for decision-makers
• Applied workshop: group analysis of an existing social policy
This course equips participants with essential tools and methodologies to evaluate and improve social policies from an inclusion and justice perspective.
It enables institutions to assess social outcomes more effectively, make evidence-based decisions, and craft policies that reach the most vulnerable in society.