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Evaluation Steering Committee

As part of the Evaluation Strategy, the Evaluation Steering Committee (ESC) is the key governance and review body for evaluation planning and reporting in the department. Its primary functions are to oversee governance arrangements, assess and approve evaluation materials, provide appropriate advice to staff conducting evaluations, and report to the Policy and Performance Committee on evaluations undertaken by the department.

The Evaluation Steering Committee (ESC) operates under a Terms of Reference 391k and meets at least three times annually. Membership of the ESC 246k encompass all policy and functional areas, as represented in the department's organisational chart .

Responsibilities of the ESC include:

• reviewing and approving the rolling four-year evaluation schedule
• reviewing, approving and providing feedback to evaluation teams on evaluation proposals and the composition of evaluation governance groups and evaluation teams
• considering progress reports or draft evaluation reports and providing feedback and direction to evaluation teams
• reviewing and approving final evaluation reports
• reporting to the Policy and Performance Committee (PPC) on any critical issues of evaluations undertaken by the department for senior management attention
• periodically reviewing program progress against evaluation findings and recommendations.

Ethics Advisory Group (EAG)

Under its terms of reference 113k the role of the EAG is to consider ethical issues arising in evaluations listed on the department's Evaluation Schedule and provide advice to the ESC.

Responsibilities include:

• draw attention to any ethical issues impacting on an evaluation undertaken or commissioned by the department
• provide timely and specific feedback on ethical issues impacting on the evaluation or its evaluation materials (including draft evaluation proposals, collection tools and evaluation reports) when requested
• report the outcomes of ethical considerations of an evaluation to the ESC.

The Evaluation Services team acts as secretariat for the ESC and the EAG.

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