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Small program, big vision: How the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is using and building evidence to move beyond crisis management in international wildlife conservation
Wildlife conservation faces a global crisis with the rapid loss of biodiversity, leading to calls for investing in the most effective conservation interventions. The wildlife sector has accomplished much utilizing the best available science, however... Read more
The Impact of Evidence-Based Policy: Summer EBT for Children Program
Have you ever wondered how the evidence generated by large Federal studies is used by decision-makers to inform and change policy? This video tells the story of how... Read more
Congratulations to the 2024 Evaluation Community Award Winners!
On behalf of the Evaluation Officer Council, it is our honor to announce the winners of the Fourth Annual Evaluation Community Awards Program! Each year, we are overwhelmed... Read more
Increasing Evidence Use through Research-Policy Partnerships
On April 17, 2024, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) and American University (AU) established an innovative research partnership... Read more
And the Award Goes To… The Improve Group Cooperative for their PPCE Evaluation Toolkit
On August 19, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)... Read more
Celebrating Evidence: Honoring the People Driving the Federal Evidence Ecosystem
Why is evidence so critical to solving our nation’s greatest challenges? Who are the subject matter experts and policy leaders that build and use evidence to make decisions... Read more
Public Participation Opens the Front Door of Government
Public engagement is imperative to delivering excellent, equitable, and secure services to the American people.... Read more
Announcing Phase I winners of the President’s Management Agenda Learning Agenda: Public Participation and Community Engagement Evidence Challenge
On June 3, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced the Phase I winning submissions... Read more
OMB Revises its Uniform Grants Guidance, Clarifying Support for Program Evaluation
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issues guidance in Title 2 of the CFR, often referred to as the Uniform Grants Guidance... Read more
Calling Evidence Experts for a Year-Long IPA with the Evidence Team
Are you a mid-career to senior-level professional passionate about using evidence and evaluations to inform programs and policies... Read more
Applications for the Summer/Fall 2024 Evidence-Based Decision-Making Leadership Academy are Now Open!
Creating an evidence-based Government means that staff at all levels – from program operators to Senior Executives – embrace the use of evidence to make decisions... Read more
Announcing the President’s Management Agenda Learning Agenda: Public Participation and Community Engagement Evidence Challenge
On April 8, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced the launch of the President’s Management Agenda (PMA) Learning Agenda: Public Participation and Community Engagement Evidence Challenge... Read more
Agencies Publish Their FY25 Annual Evaluation Plans
Agencies recently published their latest Annual Evaluation Plans, describing the significant evaluation activities they will undertake during fiscal year 2025... Read more
President’s Budget Sustains Investments in Evidence and Evaluation across the Federal Government
Building Evidence for Better Management: Inside the PMA Learning Agenda End of Year Report
On March 4, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the President’s Management Agenda (PMA) Learning Agenda Fiscal Year 2023 Year End Report on Performance.gov and Evaluation.gov.... Read more
Building the Foundation Needed to Achieve the Evidence Act’s Potential for Transforming Federal Policymaking
The five-year anniversary of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (the Evidence Act) provides a point of reflection on the journey to ensure the Federal government centers its work in evidence building and use... Read more
Actionable Learning about Economic Recovery
Treasury is using evidence to inform program implementation and is looking for opportunities to collaborate with researchers on evaluations (who can express interest by emailing OSPPI@Treasury.gov)... Read more
Celebrating Five Years of the Evidence Act
January 2024 marks five years since passage of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, or Evidence Act... Read more
Connecting Government Agencies with Strategies and Tools for Sustainable Data Use
Many federal agencies are striving to increase their capacity to collect and use data in line with the Foundations for Evidence-based Policymaking Act of 2018... Read more
Announcing the 2023 Evaluation Community Awards Winners
Hear Directly from OMB’s Evidence Team in a Recent Podcast
What have been some successes and challenges in implementing the Evidence Act? How have agencies responded to this paradigm shift in evidence-based policymaking... Read more
Introducing a New Way for Federal Agencies to Get the Evaluation Support They Need!
High quality program evaluations require connecting agencies’ evidence questions with the expertise to answer them... Read more
Agencies Publish Their Latest Annual Evaluation Plans
Agencies have now published their latest Annual Evaluation Plans, which describe the significant evaluation activities they will undertake during fiscal year 2024... Read more
President’s Budget Demonstrates Commitment to Evidence and Evaluation
The Evidence chapter in the President’s Budget and Chapter in Brief highlight the Administration’s accomplishments and continued commitment to building and using evidence. Read more
Progress on the White House Year of Evidence for Action
New Tool to Explore Agency Learning Agenda Questions!
Federal agencies recently published agency-wide Learning Agendas as required by the Evidence Act. Learning Agendas, or evidence-building plans, provide a roadmap to building the evidence that's critical for effective, evidence-based decision-making across Government. Read more
Building Evidence to Advance Equitable Outcomes through the American Rescue Plan
The OMB Evidence Team is excited to share this U.S. General Services Administration News Release about the award of a Multi-Year Evaluation... Read more
Announcing the Recipients of the 2022 Evaluation Community Awards
It is our honor to announce the winners of the Second Annual Evaluation Community Awards Program, sponsored by the Evaluation Officer Council... Read more
Public Informs Final Government-Wide PMA Learning Agenda
Today, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the President’s Management Agenda (PMA) Learning Agenda on Performance.gov... Read more
In the Spotlight – USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures
In the Spotlight serves to introduce you to the people and offices across the Federal Government who are doing the hard work of undertaking program evaluation and shine a light on their many notable accomplishments and activities... Read more
New Journal Article Highlights the Importance of the Federal Evaluation Workforce!
The latest edition of New Directions for Evaluation—an official journal of the American Evaluation Association—examines evaluation policy with an emphasis on the Federal landscape, and features an article on the Federal evaluation workforce authored by members of OMB’s Evidence Team—Diana Epstein, Erica Zielewski, and Erika Liliedahl. Read more
Learning What Works to Build an Equitable Recovery
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) pandemic relief bill, signed into law by President Biden on March 11, 2021, has fueled the most equitable economic recovery in recent history. This progress is the result of both the design and implementation of ARP to advance equity through a concerted, whole-of-government approach. Read more
Sharing Stories: Evidence in Action Across the Country
Evidence is a powerful tool to inform government practices and policies – and advancing its use in the Federal government is an important goal for OMB and OSTP. Read more
Year of Evidence for Action Kicks Off!
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration launched a “Year of Evidence for Action” at its first-ever White House Summit on Evidence for Action, co-hosted by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Read more
Evidence Act Milestone!
Today marks an important milestone in the implementation of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (“Evidence Act”) as Federal Agencies post their Learning Agendas, FY23 Annual Evaluation Plans, and Capacity Assessments. Read more
In the Spotlight – AmeriCorps Office of Research and Evaluation
The latest In the Spotlight highlights the innovative evaluation work underway in AmeriCorps’ Office of Research and Evaluation... Read more
In the Spotlight – Clemencia Cosentino, Chief Evaluation Officer, National Science Foundation
In the Spotlight serves to introduce you to the people and offices across the Federal Government who are doing the hard work of undertaking program evaluation and shine a light on their many notable accomplishments and activities... Read more
In the Spotlight – Naomi Goldstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families (HHS)
In the Spotlight serves to introduce you to the people and offices across the Federal Government who are doing the hard work of undertaking program evaluation and shine a light on their many notable accomplishments and activities... Read more
In the Spotlight – Christina Yancey, Chief Evaluation Officer, Department of Labor
In the Spotlight serves to introduce you to the people and offices across the Federal Government who are doing the hard work of undertaking program evaluation and shine a light on their many notable accomplishments and activities... Read more
In the Spotlight – IRS Office of Research, Applied Analytics, and Statistics
We are excited to kick off a new regular feature on Evaluation.gov – In the Spotlight! In these posts, we will introduce you to the people and offices across the Federal Government who are doing the hard work of undertaking... Read more
And the Winners Are...
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Inaugural Evaluation Officer Council Recognition Program! These awards honor Federal civil service leaders committed to advancing evaluation and evidence-based policymaking across the... Read more
OMB M-21-27: Guidance worth getting excited about
It’s not often that OMB guidance and evidence-based policymaking generate media buzz, especially not together. But, the recent release of OMB M-21-27, responding to the January, 2021 Presidential Memorandum on... Read more
Welcome to Evaluation.gov
Welcome to Evaluation.gov, the home for Federal program evaluation and the Evaluation Officer Council. We are excited to launch this site as a resource to support and build the Federal evaluation community,... Read more
Using Evaluation to Advance Our Priorities
As this Administration works to address complex and urgent challenges facing our country, evaluation is necessary for answering key questions about what works and how we can improve, and is critical... Read more
An Insider’s View on Implementing the Evidence Act
As the Evaluation Officer for the Department of Education (ED) and member of the Evaluation Officer Council, I have been privileged to help make the vision of the Evidence Act a reality. Along the way,... Read more
Another Council? Why an Interagency Council on Evaluation Policy
The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (Evidence Act) was a culmination of years of efforts to set evaluation on par with statistics and data as necessary for ensuring federal policies are... Read more