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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MHC was engaged by the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ, previously Department of Family and Community Services) to support the large-scale complex evaluation of the Future Directions program.
In 2017 MHC developed a commissioning strategy and implementation plan for the evaluation. In 2019 MHC established and embedded an approach to evaluation governance and management including providing quality assurance for the Future Directions evaluation. Up to 2023 MHC has provided advice to FACSIAR the evaluation.
