This resource shares some tips and key considerations for managers who want to help build an organisational culture where evidence and evaluation are valued and can inform and improve practice. Although staff at any level of an organisation can be involved in evaluation, and be evaluation champions, managers often have a special role in supporting and facilitating a positive evaluation culture.

By using evaluation to assess what we do we can make better decisions and improve services for our clients. Evaluation works best when the whole organisation embraces it, the organisation acts on evaluation findings, and there is shared responsibility for evaluation. This can be called having an ‘evaluation culture’, and managers are essential to building a positive evaluation culture.

This resource is predominately for managers but may also be useful for others in an organisation who wish to promote an evaluation culture.

A recent research project is drawn upon to show what works for managers to effectively engage in building such an organisational culture.