Governance - Ensuring timeliness and rigor to inform decision making
Evaluation Schedule
- An annually revised, four-year schedule that outlines the scope, type and timeframe of key programs to be evaluated
- Priorities for the schedule are established through strategic and operational planning, budgeting and reporting processes
Evaluation Steering Committee
- The key body, with broad representation from all major functional and policy areas, which provides guidance and feedback on the design of departmental evaluations and strategies to embed learning outcomes from evaluations into future decision making
- The Evaluation Steering Committee reports to the Executive Management Group through the Policy and Performance Committee
- An Ethics sub-committee performs an ethical clearance function for evaluations to provide objectivity and minimise any harm that could result from an evaluation
Evaluation governance groups
- Each evaluation should have an evaluation governance group whose members are key stakeholders well positioned to shape the design and implementation of the evaluation, furnish strategic advice on any emergent issues which may impact on the evaluation, and help transfer knowledge into other settings
Accountable officers
- Each evaluation has an accountable officer who approves the scope and design of the evaluation and the resources allocated to the process. Once an evaluation is completed, the accountable officer is responsible for communicating the outcomes of the evaluation to stakeholders, ensuring compliance with Right to Information and Privacy Legislation
Evaluation of the strategy
- An evaluation of the Evaluation Strategy 2010-2014 will determine the success factors and any barriers to achieving the Evaluation Strategy's intended outcomes, and inform key areas for improvement
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