The landscape for evidence-informed policymaking and program delivery is changing rapidly. While important social issues are becoming more complex and entrenched, there exist challenges which impede the generation and adoption of evidence to inform impactful social policy in Canada.
Mowat NFP’s Innovation in Evidence series provides insightful analyses of these challenges and identifies opportunities to improve the use of evidence in policymaking and program delivery in Canada. The papers in this series offer practical recommendations that governments, funders, and not-for-profit organizations can act on to improve Canada’s evidence ecosystem.
Canada’s Evidence Institutions
We are crowdsourcing Canadian infrastructure for evidence-informed decision-making institutions. This page is a listing of institutions, agencies, organizations and partnerships that are part of Canada’s infrastructure for evidence-informed decision-making. As a starting point, it includes a number of examples of capacity-building organizations and multi-sector partnerships that are successfully learning and sharing what works to help improve outcomes for people in their communities.
In this series
Committing to Action
How to ensure that social policy decisions are consistently and effectively guided by the best possible evidence? Mowat NFP’s latest report crystalizes the lessons learned from the Innovation in…
Evidence that Works
Canadian governments and their service-provider partners are tackling increasingly complex social problems. Effective solutions will depend on how well they can identify what initiatives are and are…
Innovation in Evidence: Conference Background Paper
The landscape for evidence-informed policymaking is changing rapidly. While important social issues are becoming more complex and entrenched, there exist challenges which impede the generation and…
Paths forward to support evidence-informed social policy in Canada
In advance of the Innovation in Evidence conference, Mowat NFP reached out to six Canadian and International conference speakers to garner their expertise on a wide-range of topics relating to the…
Events
Innovation in Evidence Convening Event
In February 2019, Mowat NFP hosted a convening event in partnership with the Ontario Trillium Foundation that brought together practitioners, policymakers, academics and funders to discuss concrete…
Innovation in Evidence Conference
In November 2018, Mowat NFP and the Community Safety Knowledge Alliance hosted a two-day event in Regina, Saskatchewan that brought together international leaders and innovators in evidence-informed…