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And the Award Goes To… The Improve Group Cooperative for their PPCE Evaluation Toolkit

By The Evidence and Equity Teams, OMB PPM · September 27, 2024
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On August 19, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)... Read more

  • Evidence-Use
  • Evaluation
  • Public-Participation
  • Community-Engagement

Celebrating Evidence: Honoring the People Driving the Federal Evidence Ecosystem

By OMB Evidence Team and OSTP Science, Society, and Policy Team · September 16, 2024
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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

  • Evaluation
  • Evidence-Use

Public Participation Opens the Front Door of Government

By Performance.gov and Evaluation.gov Teams · August 13, 2024
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Public engagement is imperative to delivering excellent, equitable, and secure services to the American people.... Read more

  • Equity
  • Evaluation
  • Public-Participation
  • Community-Engagement

Announcing Phase I winners of the President’s Management Agenda Learning Agenda: Public Participation and Community Engagement Evidence Challenge

By The Evidence Team, OMB · June 10, 2024
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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

  • Equity
  • Evaluation
  • Public-Participation
  • Community-Engagement

OMB Revises its Uniform Grants Guidance, Clarifying Support for Program Evaluation

By The Evidence Team, OMB · June 04, 2024
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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

  • Evaluation
  • Guidance
  • Policy

Calling Evidence Experts for a Year-Long IPA with the Evidence Team

By The Evidence Team, OMB · April 18, 2024
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Are you a mid-career to senior-level professional passionate about using evidence and evaluations to inform programs and policies... Read more

  • Evaluation
  • Evidence-Act

Applications for the Summer/Fall 2024 Evidence-Based Decision-Making Leadership Academy are Now Open!

By The Evidence Team, OMB · April 16, 2024
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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

  • Evidence-Use

Announcing the President’s Management Agenda Learning Agenda: Public Participation and Community Engagement Evidence Challenge

By The Evidence Team · April 08, 2024
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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

  • Equity
  • Evaluation
  • Public-Participation
  • Community-Engagement

Agencies Publish Their FY25 Annual Evaluation Plans

By The Evidence Team, OMB · April 02, 2024
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Agencies recently published their latest Annual Evaluation Plans, describing the significant evaluation activities they will undertake during fiscal year 2025... Read more

  • Evaluation
  • Evidence-Act

President’s Budget Sustains Investments in Evidence and Evaluation across the Federal Government

By The Evidence Team · March 19, 2024
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The President’s Budget demonstrates the Administration’s commitment to support evidence-based programs and strengthen evidence-building capacity across Federal agencies... Read more

  • Evaluation
  • Evidence-Act
  • Policy

Building Evidence for Better Management: Inside the PMA Learning Agenda End of Year Report

By The Performance.gov and Evidence Teams · March 11, 2024
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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

  • Evaluation
  • Evidence-Use

Building the Foundation Needed to Achieve the Evidence Act’s Potential for Transforming Federal Policymaking

By Kelly Bidwell (GSA), Joseph Clift (USDA/FNS), Mary Hyde (AmeriCorps), and Lauren Supplee (HHS/ACF/OPRE) · January 29, 2024
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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

  • Evaluation
  • Evidence-Use
  • Evidence-Act

Actionable Learning about Economic Recovery

By Jed Herrmann, U.S. Department of the Treasury · January 23, 2024
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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

  • Evaluation
  • Evidence-Use

Celebrating Five Years of the Evidence Act

By The Evidence Team, OMB · January 17, 2024
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January 2024 marks five years since passage of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, or Evidence Act... Read more

  • Evaluation
  • Evidence-Act
  • Evaluation-Officer-Council

Connecting Government Agencies with Strategies and Tools for Sustainable Data Use

By Siri Warkentien and Nicole Deterding · October 30, 2023
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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

  • Evidence-Use

Announcing the 2023 Evaluation Community Awards Winners

By The Evidence Team, OMB · October 23, 2023
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We are thrilled to share the winners of the Annual Evaluation Community Awards Program... Read more

  • Evaluation-Officer-Council
  • Evaluation

Hear Directly from OMB’s Evidence Team in a Recent Podcast

By The Evidence Team, OMB · September 27, 2023
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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

  • Evaluation
  • Evidence-Act

Introducing a New Way for Federal Agencies to Get the Evaluation Support They Need!

By Sarah Yue, GSA · August 30, 2023
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High quality program evaluations require connecting agencies’ evidence questions with the expertise to answer them... Read more

  • Evaluation

Agencies Publish Their Latest Annual Evaluation Plans

By The Evidence Team, OMB · March 31, 2023
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Agencies have now published their latest Annual Evaluation Plans, which describe the significant evaluation activities they will undertake during fiscal year 2024... Read more

  • Evaluation
  • Evidence-Act

President’s Budget Demonstrates Commitment to Evidence and Evaluation

By The Evidence Team · March 13, 2023
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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

  • Evaluation
  • Policy
  • Evidence-Act

Progress on the White House Year of Evidence for Action

By Christina Ciocca Eller (OSTP), Mariam Gulaid (OSTP), and Diana Epstein (OMB) · January 17, 2023
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This post was originally shared on the OSTP website. Read on to learn more about the White House Year of Evidence for Action. Read more

  • Year-of-Evidence

New Tool to Explore Agency Learning Agenda Questions!

By The Evidence Team · November 10, 2022
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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

  • Evidence
  • Act

Building Evidence to Advance Equitable Outcomes through the American Rescue Plan

By General Services Administration (GSA) · November 02, 2022
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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

  • General-Services-Administration

Announcing the Recipients of the 2022 Evaluation Community Awards

By The Evidence Team, OMB · October 20, 2022
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It is our honor to announce the winners of the Second Annual Evaluation Community Awards Program, sponsored by the Evaluation Officer Council... Read more

  • Evaluation-Officer-Council
  • Evaluation

Public Informs Final Government-Wide PMA Learning Agenda

By Nichelle Johnson Billips and Diana Epstein, Office of Management and Budget · September 15, 2022
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Today, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the President’s Management Agenda (PMA) Learning Agenda on Performance.gov... Read more

  • Evaluation

In the Spotlight – USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures

By Sasha Gallant, USAID and The Evidence Team, OMB · September 08, 2022
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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

New Journal Article Highlights the Importance of the Federal Evaluation Workforce!

By Diana Epstein, Erika Liliedahl, and Erica Zielewski · June 27, 2022
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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

  • Evaluation

Learning What Works to Build an Equitable Recovery

By Maia Jachimowicz, White House American Rescue Plan Implementation Team · June 09, 2022
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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

  • Evaluation
  • Equity

Sharing Stories: Evidence in Action Across the Country

By The Year of Evidence for Action Team · June 02, 2022
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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

  • Evaluation
  • Year-of-Evidence

Year of Evidence for Action Kicks Off!

By Christina Ciocca Eller, OSTP; Mariam Gulaid, OSTP/OMB; Evidence Team, OMB · April 08, 2022
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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
  • Evaluation
  • Policy
  • Year-of-Evidence

Evidence Act Milestone!

By The Evidence Team, OMB · March 28, 2022
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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

  • Evidence-Act

In the Spotlight – AmeriCorps Office of Research and Evaluation

By The Evidence Team, OMB · February 23, 2022
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The latest In the Spotlight highlights the innovative evaluation work underway in AmeriCorps’ Office of Research and Evaluation... Read more

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In the Spotlight – Clemencia Cosentino, Chief Evaluation Officer, National Science Foundation

By The Evidence Team, OMB · February 03, 2022
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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

In the Spotlight – Naomi Goldstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families (HHS)

By The Evidence Team, OMB · December 15, 2021
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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

In the Spotlight – Christina Yancey, Chief Evaluation Officer, Department of Labor

By The Evidence Team, OMB · November 29, 2021
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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

In the Spotlight – IRS Office of Research, Applied Analytics, and Statistics

By The Evidence Team, OMB · November 17, 2021
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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

  • In-the-Spotlight

And the Winners Are...

By The Evidence Team, OMB · October 11, 2021
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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

  • Evaluation-Officer-Council
  • Evaluation

OMB M-21-27: Guidance worth getting excited about

By The Evidence Team, OMB · September 27, 2021
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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

  • Evaluation
  • Evidence-Act
  • Guidance

Welcome to Evaluation.gov

By Diana Epstein, Evidence Team Lead, OMB · August 26, 2021
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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

  • Evaluation
  • Evidence-Act

Using Evaluation to Advance Our Priorities

By Danny Yagan, Associate Director for Economic Policy, OMB · August 25, 2021
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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

  • Policy
  • Evaluation

An Insider’s View on Implementing the Evidence Act

By Matt Soldner, Evaluation Officer, ED · August 24, 2021
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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

  • Evaluation-Officer-Council
  • Evaluation
  • Evidence-Act

Another Council? Why an Interagency Council on Evaluation Policy

By Jeffrey Hemmeter, Acting Deputy Associate Commissioner for the Office of Research, Demonstration, and Employment Support, SSA · August 23, 2021
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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

  • ICEP
  • Evaluation

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