| Strategy
and Policy Evaluation |
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This resource and referenence guide aims to support strategy
development and promote strategic thinking in government by
encouraging a project-based approach to developing strategy
and describes four typical project phases.
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A series of guidance notes on policy
evaluation and analysis intended to help 'intelligent customers'
and 'intelligent providers' determine what constitutes high
quality work in the field. |
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Provides guidance on the economic
appraisal of cost and benefits of policy options, setting out
the general approach to carrying out appraisal of all government
intervention. |
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This tool aims to improve the chain of causality between
evidence and advice. RIA is a methodology for designing precise,
targeted regulations that achieve legitimate policy aims.
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| Ensuring
Key Perspectives are Included |
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This toolkit aims to ensure that policymaking is informed
by a proper understanding of regional issues and priorities.
It is a practical resource to support new thinking and outlines
a set of ideas and techniques that can be used to design better
policymaking processes.
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Provides practical help and guidance to policymakers in the
use of international comparisons in policymaking. The toolkit
includes principles, case studies, a directory of information
sources and a forum for raising and discussing issues.
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Provides help for policymakers in
incorporating a gender perspective into policies that take account
of the different needs, characteristics and behaviours of the
users at whom they are aimed. |
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Provides guidance for developing
and assessing proposals that affect the risk of fatalities,
injury and other harm to the public. It also contains a tool
to help structure and make explicit the evaluation of concerns
that may exist about risks of fatality and harm. |
| Testing
Policy Ideas |
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An important tool in policy development and delivery and
the identification of what works. This is a recent innovation
that allows for the phased introduction of major government
policies or programmes.
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| Public-orientated
Tools |
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A framework, based around six risk characteristics, for understanding
people's concerns in order that they can be considered in
policy development and in the development of related consultation
arrangements and communication strategies.
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Provides community planning partners with practical techniques
that can be used to support the process of community engagement
in partnerships.
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Centred on examples of good practice, this guide aims to
inform and encourage public sector service providers to develop
new and effective ways of involving local people in improving
the services they use.
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| Getting
Better Advice and Evidence |
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Two types of advisory
bodies: Permanent Advisory Bodies - appointed by the government
for independent advice on policy issues; and Temporary Blue-Ribbon
Commissions, created to investigate a particular problem.
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Three tools for policymakers to help
ensure the qualitative research they commission meets an acceptable
standard: Assessing the Quality of Qualitative
Research; Researching social policy - the uses of qualitative
methods; and ESRC Research Methods Programme. |
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| Other
Web-based Resources |
List of web-based resources on Evidence-based Policymaking.
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