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