Policy evaluation in programming and managing public expenditure

The European Commission aimed to help the Belgian Federal Public Service Strategy and Support and the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance strengthen policy evaluation to improve the efficiency of public spending and policymaking. Policy evaluations can generate substantial evidence to improve the quality of public expenditure. The use of policy evaluation and spending review findings in budget decisions could guide a more efficient and effective allocation of resources, help identify measures that do not meet policy goals or were obsolete when compared to policy priorities, contribute to more informed decisions on budget cuts or support institutional actors in the debate on which new measures should be financed and on sound policy design.

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