APS Evaluation Profession Strategy

High-quality evaluation is essential to evidence-informed policy, effective program delivery and continuous improvement across the Australian Public Service (APS). The APS Evaluation Profession Strategy provides a roadmap for building evaluation capability, strengthening professional pathways and embedding a culture of evaluation and learning across government.

Launched as part of the APS capability agenda, the strategy aims to improve the APS's ability to design, commission, conduct and use evaluation to inform decision making. By strengthening evaluation capability and promoting the use of evidence, the strategy supports better policy outcomes and improved services for Australians.

This resource has been provided by the APS Evaluation Profession.

What are the benefits?

• Builds evaluation capability across the APS workforce.
• Strengthens the use of evidence in policy and program design, delivery and improvement.
• Supports professional development and career pathways for evaluators.
• Promotes a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Encourages innovative and ethical evaluation approaches.
• Helps government deliver better outcomes for Australians through evidence-informed decision making.

What this resource covers

• Growing and retaining the evaluation workforce: Supporting graduate recruitment, career development and evaluation leadership across the APS.
• Developing professional evaluation skills and capabilities: Promoting training opportunities and strengthening evaluation expertise, including First Nations approaches to evaluation.
• Fostering a professional evaluation workforce: Building professional networks, supporting career pathways and defining specialist evaluation capabilities.
• Embedding an evidence and evaluation culture: Encouraging the use of high-quality evidence and strengthening leadership support for evaluation.
• Driving innovation in evaluation: Promoting innovative evaluation methods and the safe and ethical use of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.