Evidence for Better Decisions
Build practical skills for using evidence to take a policy, or initiative, all the way to a Budget bid or funding request. In partnership with FrankCapability.
Course overview
This course teaches practical skills for finding useful evidence, judging if it’s suitable, and using it to take a policy, or initiative, all the way to a Budget bid or funding request.
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What you'll learn
What you’ll learn
- The kinds of evidence that are useful and suitable for policy, or advice
- How to use evidence to take a policy, or initiative, right through to a Budget bid or funding request
Course modules
Module 1: Understanding Evidence Types for Decision Making
Identify the types of evidence useful for policy and initiative decisions
- Breaking down an ‘evidence need’ into answerable questions.
- The different types of evidence that could answer the questions.
- Major data sets, and how they can help answer questions.
Module 2: Evaluating Evidence Quality and Suitability
Evaluate whether evidence is suitable for advice
- What are research, monitoring and evaluation, and how they can help answer questions?
- Other evidence inside and outside your organisation, and what it might tell you.
- Judging whether evidence answers the questions you need it to, and whether it’s good enough.
Module 3: From Evidence to Action: Using evidence in proposals
Use evidence to develop policy and initiative proposals through to Budget bids or funding requests
- What to do when the evidence available doesn’t give the full picture.
- The basics of turning evidence into cost-benefit analysis to help with a Budget bid or funding request.
Further Information
Format
This practical and engaging facilitator-led, live learning session is delivered either in-person in one day or online in three two-hour sessions. Learners can ask questions, share experiences and work through real challenges together. We provide all the supporting resources needed.
Interested in this course?
We do not currently have any public course dates scheduled. If you are interested in running this as a private course, please get in touch.
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