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Evidence-Based Policymaking: Practices to Help Manage and Assess the Results of Federal Efforts : Government Accountability Office (GAO) , July , 2023

July 2023

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

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From the report: “GAO developed 13 key practices that can help federal leaders and employees develop and use evidence to effectively manage and assess the results of federal efforts. The key practices are distilled from hundreds of actions identified in GAO’s past work as effective for implementing federal evidence-building and performance-management activities.”

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