Applying Evidence for more Effective Policies

Washington D.C., USA, George Washington University

9 – 13 May 2022

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.

 

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Confirmed trainers

Kathryn Newcomer

Kathryn Newcomer

Former president of the American Evaluation Association & Professor in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at the George Washington University

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Pieter Duisenberg

Pieter Duisenberg

Chair of The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), former member of the Parliament of the Netherlands

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Jonathan Breckon

Jonathan Breckon

Founder of the Alliance for Useful Evidence, NESTA, UK

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Nick Hart

Nick Hart

Chief Executive Officer of the Data Coalition and President of the non-profit Data Foundation

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Patricia Paskov

Patricia Paskov

Impact Evaluation Analyst, World Bank

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Nichole Dunn

Nichole Dunn

Senior advisor at Results for America

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Zach Markovits

Zach Markovits

Vice President of Local Government and Managing Director, What Works Cities, Results for America

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Nynke de Witte

Nynke de Witte

Deputy Head of the Strategic Analysis Unit, Inspectorate of the Budget, Ministry of Finance, NL

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