OECD Public Governance Reviews Mobilising Evidence for Good Governance Taking Stock of Principles and Standards for Policy Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Governments are seeking to improve evidence-based policy making as well as trust in decision-making processes. This report offers a first global mapping of principles for the good governance of evidence in policy making, as well as standards of evidence from a significant range of OECD countries and...

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Autor principal: OECD (-)
Autor Corporativo: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, author, issuing body (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing 2020.
Colección:OECD public governance reviews.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of contents
  • Executive summary
  • 1 Introduction
  • The role of quality evidence to support evidence-informed policy-making
  • What are the challenges of contemporary policy-making?
  • Defining the role of evidence and evidence-informed policy-making
  • The role of the use of evidence in improving public sector effectiveness
  • Achieving the promise of evidence-informed policy-making
  • The need to create a supportive institutional environment
  • Promoting the use of evidence and improving the evidence to policy interface through knowledge brokerage
  • The need for standards of evidence to bring coherence to policy making processes
  • Ensuring the good governance of evidence
  • Goal and focus of this report
  • Methodology
  • Conceptual framework
  • Desk research
  • Engaging with experts
  • Country coverage
  • Principles for the Good Governance of Evidence
  • Standards of evidence
  • Consolidated overview of the principles and standards
  • Principles for the good governance of evidence
  • Appropriate evidence for the policy concern
  • Ensuring integrity (honest brokerage)
  • Accountability
  • Contestability
  • Public representation in decision-making
  • Transparency in the use of evidence
  • Building evidence through emerging technologies and mobilising data
  • Standards of evidence
  • Standards concerning evidence synthesis.
  • Theory of change and logic underpinning an intervention: Should the intervention work?
  • Design and development of policies and programmes: Can it work?
  • Efficacy of an intervention: Does it work?
  • Effectiveness of interventions: Does it work in the real world?
  • Cost effectiveness of interventions: Is it worth it?
  • Implementation and scale up of interventions
  • References
  • Notes
  • 2 Principles for the good governance of evidence.
  • Appropriate evidence for the policy concern
  • Why is it important?
  • Summary of the mapping of existing approaches
  • Evidence that addresses the multiple policy concerns at stake
  • Evidence that best informs policy goals
  • Evidence that is applicable to the local policy context
  • Ensuring integrity (honest brokerage)
  • Why is it important?
  • Summary of the mapping of existing approaches
  • Honest brokerage
  • Humility
  • Ethical conduct
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Addressing the risk of capture and bias in the policy process
  • Accountability
  • Why is it important?
  • Summary of Mapping Approaches
  • Clear Roles of Policy Makers and Advisors in the Evidentiary Advisory Process
  • Leadership in the Evidentiary Advisory Process
  • Contestability
  • Why is it important?
  • Summary of the mapping of existing approaches
  • Processes for when evidence is uncertain and contested.
  • Processes for stakeholder engagement in participatory evidence assessments and recommendations
  • Public representation in decision making
  • Why is it important?
  • Summary of the mapping of existing approaches
  • Stakeholder and public consultations
  • Stakeholder Engagement in Evidence Synthesis
  • Transparency in the use of evidence
  • Why is it important?
  • Summary of the mapping of existing approaches
  • Transparency of decision making
  • Transparency in disclosing information
  • Building evidence through emerging technologies and mobilising data
  • Why is it important?
  • Summary of the mapping of existing approaches
  • Achieving the promise of emerging technologies through appropriate institutional set ups
  • Developing frameworks and principles for the data governance
  • Balancing the dynamics of innovation and new technologies through good governance.
  • The development of principles for the use of emerging technologies and new data and their impact on evidence-informed policymaking
  • References
  • Notes
  • 3 Standards of Evidence: Mapping the experience in OECD countries
  • Introduction
  • What are standards of evidence for?
  • Assessing the strength of evidence of an intervention
  • Assessing bodies of evidence
  • Reviewing the evidence base for an intervention
  • Supporting the development of an intervention
  • What forms of evidence are covered by standards of evidence?
  • What are the seven issues covered in the standards of evidence?
  • Evidence Synthesis
  • Why is it important?
  • Summary of the mapping of existing approaches
  • Standards for assessing the quantity and quality of existing reviews.
  • Standards for executing evidence synthesis
  • Standards for setting up and scoping a review
  • Standards for searching research
  • Standards for rating the quality of evidence and strength of recommendations
  • Theory of Change and Logic Model underpinning the programme
  • Why is it important?
  • Summary of the mapping of existing approaches
  • Standards concerning theory of change
  • Standards concerning the logic model underpinning an intervention
  • Design and Development of Programmes
  • Why is it important?
  • Summary of the mapping of existing approaches
  • Standards for establishing the feasibility of an intervention
  • Standards for piloting the outcomes of an intervention
  • Research and Evaluation design
  • Sample
  • Measurement
  • Approach to analysis
  • Findings and conclusions
  • Efficacy of an Intervention
  • Why is it important?
  • Summary of the mapping of existing approaches
  • Evaluation design
  • Sample
  • Measurements
  • Approach to analysis
  • Findings and impacts
  • Effectiveness of Interventions
  • Why is it important?
  • Summary of the mapping of existing approaches.
  • Evaluation design
  • Sample
  • Measurements
  • Approach of analysis
  • Finding and impacts
  • A postscript on systems-based approaches to evaluation
  • Cost (effectiveness) of Interventions
  • Why is it important?
  • Summary of the mapping of existing approaches
  • Cost information
  • Cost rating or assessment
  • Standards concerning economic evaluations
  • Standards for framing an economic evaluation
  • Standards for identifying the programme/policy impacts
  • Standards for estimating programme costs
  • Standards for valuing the costs and benefits of programmes
  • Standards for handling estimate uncertainty
  • Standards for reporting the results of economic evaluations
  • Implementation and Scale up of Interventions
  • Why is it important?
  • Summary of the mapping of existing approaches
  • Standards concerning the delivery and implementation of an intervention
  • Experiences of the implementation of an intervention
  • Standards concerning the dissemination readiness and system readiness
  • References
  • Notes
  • 4 Conclusion
  • What has this report achieved?
  • Opportunities for future work
  • References
  • Note
  • Annex A. Overview of the principles for the use of evidence across jurisdictions
  • Annex B. Mapping of Existing Standards of Evidence across a Range of Jurisdictions.