Evidence for Success: The guide to getting evidence and using it

"This guide is for anyone who wants to use evidence to improve policy and practice, regardless of the level of experience they have in doing so. Therefore, it is intended that this guide will also be of value to a wide range of stakeholders including: 

• practitioners 
• service managers 
• funders and commissioners 
• policy makers and planners."

Evidence for Success: The guide to getting evidence and using it 
Knowledge Translation Network
August 2014

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The role of evidence in policy formation and implementation

"Effective decision-making requires good advice, and that depends on informed use of evidence both in developing policy and in evaluating its effect once implemented."

The role of evidence in policy formation and implementation
Office of the Prime Minister's Science Advisory Committee
September 2013

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