Strengthening Evaluation & Evidence-Based Policy 2015 is a conference dedicated to support decision making by ensuring quality evidence.
Topics
- What policy practitioners can do, in this context, to enhance Ministers’ ability to make decisions
- How to balance the need for evidence with political realities and timeframes
- Using the kinds of impact evaluations that best identify causal impacts e.g. randomised trials, natural experiments, before/after studies and expert opinion/theory
- The notion of an evidence hierarchy for policy makers
- An overview of the ongoing evaluation of the NSW Energy Efficiency Action Plan
- Other general rules – systematic reviews should be preferred to individual studies and Australian research (of the same quality) to international evidence
- Taking ways of addressing challenges in approaching the data collection to support the evaluation of a diffuse market delivery programme with long term effects
- How the Office of Environment and Heritage took its programme delivery and policy teams on a journey from evaluating direct delivery to evaluating market-based mechanisms
Who should Attend
Senior attendees with responsibilities in:
- Programmes
- Policy
- Research
- Evaluation
