Evidence Plans
Learning Agendas
Learning Agendas, or evidence-building plans, are systematic plans for identifying and addressing priority questions relevant to the programs, policies, and regulations of an agency. They identify, prioritize, and establish strategies to develop evidence to answer important short- and long-term questions including:
- strategic questions about how the agency meets its mission(s), including about how programs, policies, and regulations function, and
- operational questions about the agency’s operations like human resources, grant-making procedures, financial systems and tracking, and internal processes.
Learning agendas should be iterative, flexible, transparent, and tailored to both meet an individual agency’s needs and address agency-specific challenges to developing evidence. Sources: OMB M-19-23 and OMB M-21-27.
Learning Agendas by Agency
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Coming Soon
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Health & Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Interior
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Department of State
Department of Transportation
Department of Treasury
Department of Veterans Affairs
Environmental Protection Agency
General Services Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Science Foundation
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Office of Personnel Management
Small Business Administration
Social Security Administration
U.S. Agency for International Development
Cross-Government Plans
ARP Equity Learning Agenda
The LGBTQI+ Equity Learning Agenda
PMA Learning Agenda