Applying Evidence for more Effective Policies

Washington D.C., USA, George Washington University

Background

In order to ensure that governmental policies are effective and serve the peoples needs, we need to strengthen the development of rigor evidence for better policymaking. This was endorsed by the international conference Evidence for Policymakers in The Hague. The meeting also emphasized the need for international exchange of expertise between researchers, science advisors, policymakers, evaluators and knowledge brokers to professionalize this.

The conference noted that the Evidence Act in the USA gives new momentum to the “Evidence Movement” and therefore the conference organizers will organize a 5 half-day training course where we welcome both virtual and on-site participation. This course will combine the best available expertise in Washington DC with some leading experts outside the USA with very different professional backgrounds. They will demonstrate how to use evidence for more effective policies. Each session will be taught in an interactive manner and includes collective exercises, in order to make this initiative as fitting as possible to the participants’ particular aims and needs. Participants are working on the interface between evidence creation and policymaking. They will receive a recently published book on this subject written by Kathy Newcomer and Nick Hart, who both also produced a report on establishing a learning government.

The course aims to give participants a comprehensive understanding of how to effectively create, use and disseminate evidence for better policymaking. We envision to address the ambitions mentioned hereunder during the course:

Ambitions

• Identify conditions  for an evidence-driven governmental institute
• How to make performance data actionable, applicable & structurally used
• Structurally set and meet policy targets
• Build a framework on how to use real-time data for monitoring policy performance
• How to use data-analysis for more effective (local) policies
• Turn your governmental institute step by step into a learning organization

Please note that it is possible to register as individual or as delegation. More information is available at the 'terms and conditions' button below.