Evidence is a viable and necessary part of decision-making in the social sector. At the Alliance for Useful Evidence, we’re confident that evidence-informed policy and practice isn’t just “a pipe dream“. Our confidence stems from the...

Governments around the globe are exploring ways to build and incentivize demand for the use of data and evidence to inform policymaking. They range in their use of evidence, their organizational capacity and their resource availability....

There is growing recognition that, in addition to policymaker skill and knowledge, a government’s organisational processes and practices play an influential role in promoting the use of data and evidence. On 29–30 September 2016 Results for...

Catch up on our Evidence Works 2016 Global Forum, by watching some of the short videos here. We will be adding more videos in the coming weeks, so please visit the website to hear diverse views...

Dismissing Randomised Controlled Trials seems to be an increasingly popular thing to do these days – well, we are living in strange times…Last year Sally Cupitt (Head of NCVO Charities Evaluation Service) asked whether RCTs were...

The famous mathematics department at Cambridge now has a new centre based within it – the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication. It has been founded by a philanthropist with a laudable interest in the...

Today’s Autumn Statement will likely see a raft of new policy announcements. But if the public – and, for that matter, Parliament – are to understand and engage with the rationale behind these policies, the Government...

The jointly developed ‘Evidence Transparency Framework’ asks whether someone outside of government can tell what the government is proposing to do, and why.  The report shows where transparency about the use of evidence is being achieved...

I found Evidence Works 2016 to be positive and refreshing evidence in itself of great commitment and intelligent, locally-fashioned solutions to measurement and evaluation challenges by people from a wide array of countries. At the Australian...

At Evidence Works 2016 Tessie C. Gregorio (Philippines Department of Budget and Management) spoke about the Philippines’ journey towards results-based budgeting – placing a new focus on the performance and outcomes of government agencies beyond financial measures. In...

In the first of a series of guest blogs from Evidence Works 2016 delegates, Hon. Susan Musyoka shares some of the challenges faced by the Parliamentary Caucus on Evidence-Informed Decision-Making which she chairs, and the strategies being used...

Geoff Mulgan (Nesta) questions the popularity of the term ‘theory of change’ and suggests that it can encourage too simplistic an understanding of why change occurs. The phrase ‘theory of change’ is bandied around throughout the world...