The Australian Government's Performance Framework
There has long been a keen interest from countries around the world in Australia's experience in creating an evaluation system to support evidence-based decision making and performance-based budgeting. Australia's evaluation system lasted...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/751861468212700535/The-Australian-governments-performance-framework http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27350 |
| Summary: | There has long been a keen interest from
countries around the world in Australia's experience in
creating an evaluation system to support evidence-based
decision making and performance-based budgeting.
Australia's evaluation system lasted from 1987 to 1997,
and during that time it was used to systematically evaluate
all government programs every three to five years; these
evaluation findings were used heavily by officials,
ministers and the cabinet in the annual budget process. The
uses of these findings included the policy advice prepared
by departments including the preparation of ministers'
new policy proposals and departments' savings options
submitted to the cabinet for its consideration. More
importantly, these findings were highly influential on the
cabinet's ultimate policy decisions. Finally,
evaluation findings were also used widely within line
departments in support of their ongoing management. This
paper updates two previous World Bank papers that reviewed
the Australian experience with monitoring and evaluation
(M&E) and other performance-related initiatives. These
papers (Mackay 1998, 2004) focused on the first two time
periods addressed in this paper. |
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