Maintaining an Evaluation Programme

Since our last Statement of Intent, we have made significant gains in achieving the objectives of our internal evaluation function. Most importantly, we have embedded a culture of internal evaluation in the Ministry, and delivered on and further reviewed our Evaluation Strategy. On-going work includes:

• Maintaining evaluation capacity – to manage and co-ordinate the evaluation programme, provide evaluation advice and commission and implement high quality evaluative activity;
• Increase evaluation capability – to ensure that people involved in direction setting, planning, implementation and delivery know when and how to promote evaluative activity, how to commission and manage it and how to use results; and
• Continue to enhance systems and processes – to ensure that evaluation requirements and tools are built into all aspects of the management cycle and that the results of evaluation activity are communicated in a way that informs decision making.