Future Directions for Evaluation in the Federal Office of Public Health

1. Future Directions for Evaluation in the Federal Office of Public Health Friday, 17 June, 2011

2. Institutional organisation and tasks • Evidence based, and needs, issue and results oriented – is a service unit • Provides evaluation services and consultancy to the Office and its individual business units • working within the context of a legal framework: evaluation clauses and ordinances

3. Links evaluation with research to provide evidence for informing the development and implementation of policy and strategy • Provides timely information to help make useful decisions • Makes effective and efficient use of evaluation and other tools to generate knowhow

4. Challenges • Maintain and improve! Include partners in evaluations  Manage evaluation projects impartially  Assure quality of eval products •  Disseminate and add value to evaluation and research findings

5. Strengthen the basic principles!  Sustain and strengthen an evaluation culture: develop and support „Evaluation thinking“ at all levels Draw out the lessons from evaluations - political, strategic and operational – and widely disseminate findings  Adapt the evaluation methods to reality and not the reverse!  Systematically include questions on economic aspects

6. Initiate new or out-of-the-ordinary tasks and synthesise experience!  Consider more overarching, thematic questions for evaluation to address Elaborate and apply the hybrid evaluation model (combined Self/internal/external evaluation) where appropriate Systematically highlight the benefits of evaluation (from different perspectives)  Further develop evaluators‘ and evaluation managers‘ knowledge and skills (e.g. through peer reviews)

7. Thank you for your attention!