The urgency to share well substantiated evidence on the effectiveness of policy interventions increases when policymakers worldwide share the same goals. The Covid 19 Crisis clearly created such an urgency; the underlying ambitions are more structural. In the past decade, momentum has been created by:

• the UK, where “What Works Centers” and “Behavior Insight Teams” have been established and have been copied in many countries

• the USA, by signing the “Foundations for Evidence Based Policy Act” into law in 2019

• Australia and Canada, where Delivery Units have emerged to predict and measure the effects of national political goals

• Scandinavia and the Netherlands we see new ex ante- and Strategic Evaluation methods therewith stimulating evidence informed- and experimental policymaking

In all these processes we see researchers, both from academia and from governmental research bodies, trying to improve policymaking with rigorous evidence. This also takes place within the World Bank, the EU and the UN.  This seminar will investigate how we can transfer and apply such evidence, developed in a research environment, into a policy environment.

Note: This event is based in the UK and will be hosted virtually.