TSIP, Project Oracle and the Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund

3rd September 2014

TSIP and Project Oracle

• Why is evidence important?

• Why is evidence difficult?

• TSIP and Project Oracle try to address this by creating evidence ecosystems that:

– Address both supply and demand

– Strike a balance between rigour and reality

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Standards of Evidence

1

Account of Impact

2

Correlation

3

Causation

4

Manualisation

5

Replication

The Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund

Theory of Change

Validation

Evaluation plan

Evaluator Procurement

Monitoring

DEMAND

SUPPLY

Making evidence practical

Standards of Evidence

• Demand-side

• Supply-side

Theories of Change

• Demand-side

• Supply-side

http://www.tsip.co.uk/ / www.project-oracle.com

3rd September 2014

Transport for London:

Driving an evidence-led approach

Graham Daly, Head of Community Safety and Policing Partnerships,

Transport for London

3 September 2014

EOS: TfL’s Community Safety,

Enforcement and Policing

Directorate

How and why we use data/evidence?

1. Evidence based ethos

2. Relationship with service provider

3. Understanding changes

4. Inputs, outputs and outcomes

Types of evaluation

• What do you want to know?

• Adopting a problem solving and

continuous learning approach

• Evidence sources:

• Data:

• Quantitative, Qualitative,

• Independent evaluation

• RCT

Challenges

• Organisational resistance to innovation/

change

• High standard academic research v

practical application

• Issues with data

• Supplied evidence does not always come

with data

Challenges

• Time

• Dedicated resources

• Politics

• Transferability

• Transport and social change

Graham Daly

Head of Community Safety and Policing Partnerships,

Enforcement and On-Street Operations (EOS)

Transport for London

Email: graham.daly@tfl.gov.uk

www.tfl.gov.uk

Pearson: the Path to Efficacy

Peter Hughes Head of Corporate Responsibility