Procured through:
NSW Government Performance and Management Services Scheme
Project date: 2021-2023
Project: Evaluation Capacity Boost
MHC worked alongside the Evidence and Evaluation Unit to provide strategic research and evaluation advice to the Ministry of Health.
What MHC Did
- Design evaluation frameworks and plans
- Build organisational research and evaluation capacity
- Design program logic
- Engage and consult with stakeholders (including facilitating workshops)
- Design research schemes
- Conduct environmental scans and literature reviews
Outcome
The Evidence and Evaluation Unit could effectively harness MHC expertise in evaluation to assist other parts of the Ministry.
MHC are experts in evaluation, best of all they know how to embed it within policy, programs and the health system.
Principal Analyst, NSW HealthMHC Services
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