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Reviewing the past; what we’ve achieved and what’s still needed. Achievements and Challenges of the Federal Office of Public Health’s Internal Evaluation Unit. Achievements – within Office. Institutionalization:
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Reviewing the past; what we’ve achieved and what’s still needed Achievements and Challenges of the Federal Office of Public Health’s Internal Evaluation Unit Marlène Läubli Loud - 25 years evaluation OFSP
Achievements – within Office Institutionalization: • Evaluation “institutionalized” within structures and processes – bottom up and top down • Established Office-wide Centralised Evaluation Competence Centre (2001) • Centralised budget independent of business domain’s resource interests • Integrated into 4 year Office-wide Strategic Planning • Introduced principle of multi-year (4 yrs) planning for Executive approval …/. Marlène Läubli Loud - 25 years evaluation OFSP
Achievements– with External Evaluators • Professionalization and Quality Assurance: • Developed principle and practice of • competitive tender and quality standards • systematic meta evaluation • scientific peer groups to accompany critical studies (with ToR and contracts) • Establishing stakeholder accompanying groups (strategic and/or subject specific) – with contracts • Supported training efforts and professional development events – bridging gap between managers and evaluators Marlène Läubli Loud - 25 years evaluation OFSP
Achievements Cultural Development: • Shared Purpose and Meaning: • Agreed functions are to judge “effectiveness” and “highlight where to improve” • Tools – checklists – guidelines – training • Needs-Oriented: • Oriented questions to commissioner’s needs • Systematic discussion and ‘valorisation’ of findings – going beyond the evaluation report …/. Marlène Läubli Loud - 25 years evaluation OFSP
… – the « to do » List • Further develop the evaluation questions • more creativity needed • evaluators to suggest and develop additional questions- • commissioners to think “outside the box” – more overarching strategic questions of interest to Office Executive as a whole • Analysis is often too focused on expected achievements – rather than the unexpected Marlène Läubli Loud - 25 years evaluation OFSP
The Role of an Evaluation Unit:create a supportive context for evaluation to inform strategy and practice Marlène Läubli Loud - 25 years evaluation OFSP