4.3: Learning Networks

Share best practices on procurement, evidence guidelines, and evaluation and performance measurement.

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Cross-agency learning networks -- Inter-agency working groups of evaluation and program officials within the Federal Government can share best practices, including helping spread effective procurement practices, developing common evidence guidelines, and better integrating evaluation and performance measurement efforts. Other cross-agency groups are forming learning networks around specific policy issues in order to share relevant research and develop shared evaluation strategies.

Stakeholder(s):

• Learning Networks


• Small Business Administration: Example: The Small Business Administration and the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce, with guidance from OMB and CEA, are working together with the Census Bureau to find more robust ways to evaluate the impact of Federal business technical assistance programs. The goal of the working group is to develop a standard methodology for measuring the impact of these types of technical assistance programs across the Federal Government.


• Department of Agriculture


• Department of Commerce


• OMB


• CEA


• Census Bureau


• Federal Business Technical Assistance Programs

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