EP#115: Championing evaluation with The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP

Work with Purpose: A podcast about the Australian Public Sector

The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP joins us on the episode of Work with Purpose to highlight how evaluation can help create better policies and programs.

On a recent episode of Work with Purpose on the art of policymaking, our experts agreed that evaluation should be baked into the development process from the get-go – but how do you make it work when the pressure is high?

The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, and Assistant Minister for Employment, joins presenter David Pembroke to talk about why evaluation shouldn’t be an afterthought. Assistant Minister Leigh reflects the year past since the establishment of the Australian Centre of Evaluation, and how it aims to raise the quality and quantity of evaluation across the Australian Public Service.

Discussed in this episode:

· Assistant Minister Leigh’s story from growing up as the child of two aid workers to working in politics

· his role as Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury and Assistant Minister for Employment

· the role of the Australian Centre of Evaluation one year in

· lessons from medicine for randomised evaluation

· why there is a strong appetite from politicians to pursue randomised trials

· overcoming thought barriers to randomised trials

· why solely relying on observational data can be misleading, and

· building an experimenting society.

Show notes:

• Fair game: lessons from sport for a fairer society & a stronger economy | Andrew Leigh
• APS builds skills for the future | Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet
• Australian Centre for Evaluation
• Education Endowment Foundation
• The Magenta Book | UK Government

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