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Reviewing the past; what we’ve achieved and what’s still needed

This review by Marlène Läubli Loud highlights the significant achievements and ongoing challenges faced by the Federal Office of Public Health’s Internal Evaluation Unit over the past 25 years. Key accomplishments include the institutionalization of evaluation practices, establishment of a Centralized Evaluation Competence Centre, and the implementation of multi-year strategic planning. The review emphasizes professionalization, quality assurance, and cultural development within the unit, alongside suggestions for further improvement such as focusing on creative evaluation questions and addressing unexpected outcomes.

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Reviewing the past; what we’ve achieved and what’s still needed

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

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  6. … – 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

  7. The Role of an Evaluation Unit:create a supportive context for evaluation to inform strategy and practice Marlène Läubli Loud - 25 years evaluation OFSP

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