IOG research to be featured at World Bank

Governments are driven to demonstrate results for their activities.  Where the emphasis on demonstrating “value for money” was traditionally linked to programmatic and operational initiatives, this has now spread to other areas of public sector activities, such as policy research. Where models of performance measurement have proven useful in traditional areas of public sector activity, their suitability for measuring the performance of policy research activities is in question. 

On February 16, in Washington D.C., the IOG's Michael O'Neill will review the current state of performance measurement in policy research. Some of the early conclusions show that the reliance on approaches such as logic models and balanced score cards are inadequate. Rather, the authors suggest that a relationship - based model may prove better suited to measuring research performance. This work was funded by the Canadian Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.