The evaluation approval process 
20k has been established for all evaluations conducted as part of the four-year rolling evaluation schedule.
An evaluation's Accountable Officer, Evaluation Governance Group (EGG) and the Evaluation Steering Committee (ESC) all have pivotal roles to play through out and evaluation. Those roles include; governance, review, advice, quality assurance, and approval throughout all the 7 phases of an evaluation.
As part of the approval process all evaluation proposals 
503k must include consideration of ethical issues.
Ethical assessment is intended to protect subjects, assist in evaluation design and enhance the rigor of evaluations. This will ensure contextual issues specific to the department such as research burden, existing data, recent studies, number of surveys scheduled for deployment, etc, are considered.
The ethical clearance process for evaluation streamlines into the existing evaluation approval process 20k to minimise the burden on evaluation teams and the ESC.
An ethics checklist 69k has been developed to assist evaluation teams during the design phase and should be reviewed through all evaluation phases to ensure that teams are mindful of ethical issues through the implementation of the evaluation. A fact sheet on the ethical conduct in evaluation 61k may also be useful.
Periodic progress reports are requested by the Chair of the ESC through Accountable Officers to track the progress of scheduled evaluations across the department. Governance, Strategy and Planning, as secretariat of the ESC, use these reports to provide an executive summary of issues and risks to be bought to the attention of ESC.
This page was last reviewed on 08 Jun 2011
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