Strengthening Evaluation & Evidence-Based Policy 2015 is a conference dedicated to support decision making by ensuring quality evidence.
Key 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
