The Magenta Book guides government professionals in designing, managing, and using evaluation to inform policy. It highlights evolving methods, the importance of embedding evaluation early, and its role in improving interventions. High-quality evidence supports better decisions, reduces risk, and fosters a culture of continuous improvement across departments.

As part of the series OECD Best Practice Principles for Regulatory Policy, this report extends and elaborates on principles highlighted in the 2012 Recommendation of the Council on Regulatory Policy and Governance.

What is experimentation in policy or practice? And why is an experiment worth investing in? This inventory provides a catalogue of experiments of different shapes and sizes, and simple advice on the pros and cons of different designs.

This information paper explains the Parliamentary Budget Office's (PBO's) approach to determining the behavioural assumptions applied when estimating the cost of policy proposals.

This report calls for outcome-driven targets to measure the progress of the Australian Public Service (APS) against its delivery of government priorities, satisfaction with services, ease of doing business, efficiency, citizen trust and employee engagement.