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Evidence-Based Policymaking: Practices to Help Manage and Assess Results

GAO's synthesis of roughly 200 reports found mixed government progress and identifies planning, evidence building, actual evidence use, and a learning culture as interdependent practices rather than treating measurement alone as an outcome.

Reviewed July 24, 2026

U.S. Government Accountability Office, GAO-23-105460, July 12, 2023.

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GAO's synthesis of roughly 200 reports found mixed government progress and identifies planning, evidence building, actual evidence use, and a learning culture as interdependent practices rather than treating measurement alone as an outcome.

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