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Internship performed at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada ENP7969-S

Internship Report Prepared By

Amadou Moussa Diakité

Presented to

Professor Lynda Rey

As a partial requirement of the Master of Public Administration with a concentration in program evaluation

December 2020

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Table of Content

1. Introduction...1

2. Description of Mandate and Organization...3

2. 1. Mandate context...3

2.2 Specific objectives of the internship...3

2. 3. Presentation of the organization...4

3. Literature review...6

3. 1. Government guidelines...6

3. 2. Some Definitions...7

Public Policy...7

Program and Evaluation...11

3. 3. Logic Model...12

3. 4. Organizational environment...15

3. 5. Role of the Immigration Industry...16

3. 6. Measuring and evaluating the performance of Refugee migration...17

4. Refugee Program Description...22

4.1. Refugee Program context...22

4. 2. Program components...23

4. 2. 1. Government-Assisted Refugees Program...23

4. 2. 2. Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program...23

4. 2. 3. Blended Visa Office-Referred Refugees Program...23

4. 3. Refugee Program expenses...24

4. 4. Refugee Program governance...26

5. Research and intervention methodology...27

5.1. Description of the research methods and their mode of application...27

Literature/document review...27

Key informant interviews...27

Case Studies...28

Questionnaires and survey...28

5. 2. Limitations and Mitigation Strategies...28

6. Results...30

7. Conclusion...31

Bibliography...32

Appendix 1: Logic Model of the Refugee program...i Appendix 2 : Evaluation questions and their indicatorsi

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Appendix 3 : Expenditures Tables

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Acknowledgements

First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Peter Mielke, Director of Operations, Planning and Performance Branch, for accepting to give me the opportunity to do this internship and for warmly welcoming me in his Branch.

My special thanks go to Mrs Angelyn Tsegaye Assistant Director of Operations, Planning and Performance Branch, without whom this internship would not have been achieved, for her dedication and her confidence in me. She was always there when I needed her. I will never forget you.

I would like also to thank Mr. Kefyalew Gemeda Research and Evaluation Analyst for his very useful support and reflexion during this work. He lavished on me many informed advice.

My full gratitude goes to Mr. Christopher Quintanilha-Arruda Data Management Officer who rocked my steps within the team and initiated me into data analysis.

I'm deeply grateful to Mrs. Lynda Rey Professor at ÉNAP for having accepted to lead this internship and whose teachings, advice and expertise have been of immeasurable help to me.

Big thanks to all ÉNAP staff for their continued availability.

Many thanks to all my relatives and friends who encouraged me during this very interesting training. Evaluation Framework of

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