Evaluation Accelerator Fund

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Thank you to everyone who has submitted a proposal. We are now busy reviewing and scoring bids and we are aiming to announce the outcome following Ministerial approval in early October. If you have questions about the selection process or the Fund please get in touch with eaf@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Funding Application: Phase 3

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Details of funding

The Evaluation Accelerator Fund provides a total of £15 million of funding across the 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25 financial years to improve our understanding of “what works”.

The key aims of the fund are to:

• accelerate evaluation activity and the creation of actionable evidence in HMG priority areas to inform decision-making at the next spending review
• tackle evidence gaps in HMG priority areas by rapidly building the evidence base where departments and What Works Centres are not currently undertaking activity
• provide robust evidence of financial or efficiency savings from new policies and interventions, or innovative approaches to service delivery

The Evaluation Task Force and the Cabinet Office announced the first wave of successful projects on Tuesday, 2 August 2022. The 16 selected programmes will receive a combined £12.2 million to deliver high quality evaluations in key policy areas, which supports a key commitment of the Government reform agenda to deliver better for citizens. A further four projects were selected for funding in wave two of the EAF, with successful bids announced on 6th March 2023 by Minister Alex Burghart at the Creating Better Evidence in Government event.

EAF supported projects are led by a range of government departments and What Works Centres. They will help fill evidence gaps across high-priority areas including crime and justice, education, social care, and health.

Details about selected projects, including the cost of each bid, matched funding contributions, and intended outputs are available in the linked documents above.

Further updates on the funded projects will be made available on this page.

Please direct any queries in the meantime to our dedicated mailbox eaf@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.