The System of Environmental Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF) was adopted in 2012. In one decade, it has expanded to 92 countries, and most OECD countries produced SEEA accounts in 2022. This working paper explores how national statistics producers can work towards increasing public policy use of SEEA statistics.

The author of this guide suggests that the establishment of the Australian Centre for Evaluation (ACE) seems a positive step to building evaluation capacity within the Australian Government. However, time will tell the extent to which it can lead to improved public policy decisions.

Policy-makers worldwide have long asked what makes one country or economy more resilient than another, or one region more resilient than another. ‘Resilience’ has been a topic of enduring interest to policy-makers and academics. If policy work aimed at improving resilience is to be effective, policy-makers need to be clear about what they mean by...

Australia’s young people deserve to have their interests considered in Australian policy-making. In the Covid era, many policies were defended on the basis that they would help those vulnerable to Covid, mainly the elderly. In this report, the author attempts to put a price tag on Covid-era policies, from the perspective of Australia’s youth.

This paper provides an analysis of the Belgian federal government’s practices regarding the institutionalisation, quality and impact of policy evaluations. The paper takes a holistic approach, which not only looks at individual practices, but also at how those can come together so that evaluation becomes an integral part of the policy cycle.