A new Treasury evaluation office will try to wind back decades of bureaucratic and ministerial resistance to reviewing how government schemes are working.
Andrew Leigh is a keen runner. In his typically proudly nerdy way, he follows training and equipment trends of the professionals, hoping to make gains himself through, say, high intensity training, or a better diet.
As a former economics professor at the Australian National University, he has championed the need to understand if programs are actually succeeding. Last year, he was one of 25 commissioners to sign off on an important report for thewhich had 24 recommendations for how governments can ensure evidence is consistently used to address societal challenges.. Even worse, he says, is to keep doing the wrong thing year after year.
The issue is not just a Canberra problem. Similar analysis of state and territory government community schemes found the same pattern of flying blind when it comes to understanding how well programs are succeeding.The good news is that next month’s federal budget will provide $10 million to support a new evaluation office to drive reform of this gaping hole in Australian public practice.
Gruen observes that much of the void around evaluation stems from the lowly status operational delivery gets in the public domain, compared with policymaking. This has changed significantly in the past five years, as digitisation has
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