Evidence-based policymaking: selected agencies coordinate activities, but could enhance collaboration : report to congressional requesters.
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Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, 2019.
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1 online resource (v, 68 pages) : color illustrations
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"December 2019."
"GAO-20-119."
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from cover (GAO, viewed on Nov. 21, 2022).
Contents
Background. -- Selected agencies have taken actions that align with congressional and OMB direction to strengthen evidence-building. -- Selected agencies established processes to coordinate fragmented evidence-building activities, but processes to prioritize new evidence did not always reflect leading practices. -- Conclusions. -- Recommendations for executive action. -- Agency comments and our evaluation. -- Appendices.
Summary
Congress and OMB have taken steps intended to strengthen federal evidence- building activities. In September 2017, a federal commission found that agencies had uneven capacity to support, or did not fully coordinate, a full range of evidence-building activities. This report (1) describes selected agencies' actions that align with direction from Congress and OMB to strengthen evidence-building activities and (2) examines the extent to which selected agencies' processes for coordinating those activities reflect leading practices for collaboration. GAO is making a total of seven recommendations to DOL, CNCS, and HHS to better reflect leading collaboration practices in their evidence prioritization processes.
