The European Evaluation Society (EES) is excited to announce the Evidence and Evaluation Forum; a new initiative designed to strengthen the use of evidence and evaluation in European public policy-making.

This Forum will bring together evaluators, researchers, and policy-makers to:

• Identify and share evidence
• Identify knowledge gaps
• Co-create insights to  guide better policy-making

First Series:

Evidence for Policy-Making – Addressing the Health Sector Productivity Crisis in Europe

The European Evaluation Society (EES) is partnering with RAND Europe in our first series of the Evidence and Evaluation Forum.

This Forum will focus on a critical public policy issue:
Increasing productivity in the health sector in Europe, with particular attention to:

1. evidence for policies to boost the productivity of the workforce, and
2. evidence for policies for strengthening innovation to drive productivity in the design of health services.

The Forum aims to consolidate the evidence already available to policy-makers, what gaps need to be filled, and how to apply this knowledge in policy-making. It will highlight existing evidence, especially from evaluations, and also from research. It will inform a publicly available paper intended to assist decision-makers in Europe in policy-development. It may also identify specific areas of focus where further evidence and possible evaluations are needed.

The forum reflects the EES commitment to strengthening the use of evidence and amplifying the value of evidence and evaluations in the development and monitoring of European public policy.

The ultimate audience for the Forum is decision-makers, and responsible actors in European institutions, industry, member states, trades unions and patient and public representatives.

Format of the Forum

This is a pilot series entitled, ‘Evidence for Policy-making – addressing the health sector productivity crisis in Europe’. In this series, RAND Europe will prepare a Briefing Paper ahead of the sessions, outlining the key challenges and summarizing available evidence and sources.

This will be followed by two focused online sessions:

• Session # 1: Boosting workforce productivity in the European Health sector
• Session # 2: Promoting innovation to strengthen productivity in the European Health sector

Each session (90 minutes) will feature presentations of evidence from evaluators and researchers, followed by participant discussion. The sessions will be co-chaired by EES and RAND Europe.

The two sessions will bring together and establish the strength and reliability of existing evidence from evaluations and research. After each session, there will be a Call put out on social media to collect any further evidence.

A final hybrid event (online and in-person in Brussels) will then bring together policy-makers to reflect on the usability and relevance of the evidence presented. Presenters from the earlier sessions will be invited to attend.

Register now!