Local Economic Growth What Works Centre

“行之有效的办法”中心的目标是在设计和执行促进地方经济增长和就业的政策时大大改进证据的使用，从而在这些领域制定更有效的政策和决策，为实现这一目标，该中心将汇集来自三个不同机构的主要专家：伦敦经济学院、城市中心和奥雅纳。伦敦经济学院将领导该中心，协调所有三个伙伴的工作。它将确保中心的独立性，并监督一个学术小组的工作，该小组提供世界级的专门知识，以确保中心的工作是有力和严格的，并得到用户的认可。中心将利用与地方行为体合作的多年经验，加上广泛的网络和联系，牵头参与，以确保用户能够了解和利用中心的工作。奥雅纳将领导证据收集和综合工作，利用评价、最佳做法审查、制定最佳做法指南和项目管理方面的专门知识。他们将与学术小组合作，确保及时提供强有力的证据审查，这将成为中心的核心书面产出。我们认为，该中心第一年的优先事项应该是：i）确定有足够证据适当评估有效性的关键政策干预措施; ii）进行系统审查，对这些干预措施进行排名; iii）确保决策者能够获得调查结果。为了实现这些紧迫的优先事项，我们将开发一种透明的方法来对与当地经济增长相关的干预措施进行排名;对现有的证据基础进行系统评估，并开发一个在线工具包，使用户能够比较使用共同货币排名的干预措施。在中期（第二至第三年），中心将利用我们的证据库和参与工具，重点发展有效的知识交流和能力建设。我们的目标是：i）确保证据库用于改进政策制定; ii）进一步加强证据库所涵盖的政策领域（响应用户反馈和新出现的需求）。为此，我们将宣传良好监测和评价的好处;为公共部门决策者制定指南;与少数主要地方行为体合作，为其他行为体制定最佳做法和指南。该中心的长期目标是确保在政策制定中广泛使用证据，确保新政策得到有效评估，个人和组织有能力将调查结果反馈到未来的政策制定中。实际上，这些长期目标可以在最初三年的资金中部分实现，但不能完全实现。为了帮助实现这些长期目标，我们将与地方和中央政府合作，改善数据管理;与选定的地方参与者合作开发示范项目;并确定突出的研究差距和资金机会，以填补这些。为确保中心的工作对决策者有用，并为决策者所用，中心将作为一个开放、灵活和学习的组织运作。我们将建立机制，使用户能够帮助确定中心的优先事项和发展;扩大和更新我们的证据基础，以反映不断变化的需求和出现的新证据。我们还将积极参与What Works网络，与国家顾问合作开发网络和共同标准，努力获得认证并参与What Works网络的有效性评估。

The What Works Centre aims to significantly improve the use of evidence in the design and delivery of policies for local economic growth and employment leading to more effective policies and policymaking in these areas.To achieve this aim the Centre will bring together leading experts from three different institutions: the London School of Economics, Centre for Cities and Arup. LSE would lead the Centre, coordinating the work of all three partners. It would ensure the Centre's independence and oversee the work of an academic panel providing world-class expertise to ensure the Centre's work is robust and rigorous, and viewed as such by users. CfC would lead on engagement, drawing on many years' experience working with local actors, plus extensive networks and contacts, to ensure that users are able to access and use the work of the Centre. Arup would lead on evidence-gathering and synthesis, drawing on expertise in evaluation, best practice review, developing best practice guidance, and project management. They would work with the academic panel to ensure timely delivery of robust evidence reviews that will constitute the Centre's core written outputs. We believe that the immediate, year one, priorities of the Centre should be to i) identify key policy interventions where there is sufficient evidence to properly assess effectiveness; ii) undertake systematic reviews to rank these interventions; iii) ensure that the findings are accessible to policy makers. To deliver these immediate priorities we will develop a transparent methodology to rank interventions relevant to local economic growth; conduct a systematic assessment of the existing evidence base, and develop an online toolkit allowing users to compare interventions ranked using a common currency. In the medium term (years two to three), the Centre will focus on developing effective knowledge exchange and capacity-building, using our evidence base and engagement tools. We will aim to i) ensure that the evidence base is used to improve policy making; ii) further enhance the policy areas covered by of the evidence base (responding to user feedback and emerging needs). We will do this through promoting the benefits of good monitoring and evaluation; developing guidance for public sector policymakers; and working with a small number of leading local actors to develop best practice and guidance for others. The longer term aims of the Centre are to ensure that evidence is widely used in the development of policy, to ensure that new policies are effectively evaluated and that individuals and organisations have the capacity to feed the findings back into future policy development. Realistically, these long term aims can be partially but not fully achieved within the initial three years of funding. To help secure these longer-term goals, we will work with local and central government to improve data management; partner with selected local actors to develop demonstration projects; and identify outstanding research gaps and funding opportunities to fill these. To ensure that the work of the Centre is useful to, and thus used by, policy makers the Centre will operate as an open, flexible, learning organisation. We will develop mechanisms to allow users to help shape the Centre's priorities and development; and expand and update our evidence base to reflect changing needs and new evidence that emerges. We will also actively participate in the What Works network, working with the National Advisor to develop the network and common standards, working to achieve accreditation and participating in the evaluation of the effectiveness of the What Works network.