Workshop Panamá

1st and 2nd of December, 2011

(Version Christian 25/10/2011)

  1. The Structure of the Workshop:
  1. Opening session.
  1. Presentation, Discussion and working groups concerning the studies with ex-post approaches:

-In December 1,with case studies that evaluate impacts on the exporting capacity of countries.

-In December 2, with studies that try to measure the impacts of quality infrastructure services in issues like consumers protection, capacity building, transaction costs, asymmetry of information (impacts on domestic issues).

  1. Presentation and discussion of case studies of ex-ante case studies and the creation of data collection systems.
  1. How to write an impact assessment study, next steps and feedback session.
  1. Case Studies with ex-post approaches:

The sequence of presentations is the following (including special methodological questions):

December 1

  1. LATU (Wine Certification): design of industry-based questionnaire
  2. SIC (Accreditation of Mass Labs to the Pharmaceutical Industry): design of a inter-industry questionnaire
  3. INDECOPI (Acreditación de Laboratorios de Ensayo en el área de Productos Hidrobiológicos): timeline of complaints (combining data with different sources)
  4. ONA (Accreditation of meat certification for exports to Chile and accreditation of testing labs): timeline of exports level

Working Group 1: Approaching industries/private companies in order to collect data (ex-post)

December 2

  1. INMETRO (Development of Certified Reference Material for Ethanol in Water): capacity building of metrology institutes and qualitative questionnaires
  2. CENAMEP (Verification of electrical meters to implement a new standard): fairness in transactions and the importance of own data resources.
  3. ECA (Verification of electrical meters to implement a new standard): I still need the matrix
  4. SLBS (Accreditation of Medical Labs): reduction of complaints and wrong diagnosis.

Working Group 2:Approaching consumers/users to quantify impacts (ex-ante)

  1. Case Studies with Ex-Ante Approach
  1. LATU – Breath Analyzers: steps taken so far for the creation of data collection mechanisms?
  2. CENAMEP – Quality infrastructure for exports of pineapples: what data collection mechanisms are to be implemented?
  1. Program of the Workshop

Time / Activity / Responsibility / Equipment
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
07:40 / Start from the hotel
07:50 / Registration of participants
08:00 / Session 1: Opening Session
08:05 / Welcome by CENAMEP / Gabriela
08:10 / Welcome by PTB / Alexis
08.20 / Presentation of the participants / Christian
08:30 / Explanation of the programme / Christian / Power Point
08:35 / Introduction into QI / Christian / Power Point
08:50 / Introduction into QI Infrastructure Impact Studies
Introduction into the procedures of the presentation and discussion of the impact evaluation projects / Jorge
09:15 / Session 2: Presentation and Discussion of the Case Studies with ex-post approaches
09:15 / LATU: Wine Certification / Martin
10:00 / Coffee Break
10:30 / SIC: Accreditation of Mass Labs to the Pharmaceutical Industry / Carlos?
11:15 / INDECOPI (Acreditación de Laboratorios de Ensayo en el área de Productos Hidrobiológicos) / Augusto?
12:00 / Lunch
13:30 / ONA (Accreditation of meat certification for exports to Chile and accreditation of testing labs) / Agripina
14:15 / Group Work 1: Approaching industries/private companies in order to collect data – Discussion of Case study / All
15:00 / Presentation of the results of the working groups
15:45 / Coffee Break
16:15 / How to write an Impact Study / Jorge
16:45 / Closure of the first day
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
08:00 / Welcome / Christian
08:05 / INMETRO (Development of Certified Reference Material for Ethanol in Water) / Taynah
08:50 / CENAMEP (Verification of electrical meters to implement a new standard) / Gabriela
09:35 / ECA (Verification of electrical meters to implement a new standard) / Johanna
10:20 / Coffee Break
10:40 / SLBS (Accreditation of Medical Labs) / Xanthe
11:25 / Group Work 2
12:00 / Lunch
13:30 / Group Work2: Presentation of result / All
14:15 / Session 3: Ex-Ante Case Studies
14:15 / Case Study no. 2 Uruguay / Martin
15:00 / Case Study no. 2 Panamá / Gabriela
15:45 / Coffee Break
16:00 / Session 4: Next steps, writing the report and closure of the workshop
16:00 / Wrap-up / Jorge
16:15 / Next steps / Christian, Jorge
16:30 / Evaluation and feedbacks / Christian
16:45 / Closure / Gabriela, Ulf
  1. Structure of Presentations
  1. Brief description of the intervention (1 slide)
  2. Explain main impacts (max. 2 slides)
  3. Methodology being applied, explain the situations to be compared: with and without intervention – the counterfactual (max. 2 slides)
  4. Data Collected so far
  5. List of challenges currently faced while implementing the study (1 slide)

Total presentation time: 15 Minutes

Discussion: 30 minutes

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