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Evaluation of Environmental Programs
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By constantly evaluating its environmental programs, EPA is able to capitalize on lessons learned and incorporate that experience into other programs. This enables the Agency to continuously streamline and modernize its operations while managing our programs, promoting continuous improvement and supporting innovation.
Environmental program evaluation employs the principles and approaches of traditional program evaluation, tailored to the specific needs and challenges of environmental policy management. This evolving discipline of environmental program evaluation is increasingly undertaken in Federal, State, Tribal, and local government as well as non-governmental organizations and academia. In addition, EPA has intensified its efforts to evaluate and analyze innovative tools and approaches to environmental management looking both inside and outside the Agency.
Evaluation of EPA's environmental programs improves the quality of public health and environmental protection, leads to continuous improvement, supports innovation, and better informs management decisions. Through evaluation, EPA is able to capitalize on lessons learned and incorporate its experience into new environmental areas.
This web site is designed as a web-based "gateway", linking to environmental program evaluation information within EPA and information resources beyond the Agency. It examines how EPA is using evaluation to reinforce and enhance many of the performance activities required under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). It also begins to define how evaluation helps transform lessons learned from innovation into changes in environmental management. We will continue to add relevant information to this site, specifically focusing on new developments and new information regarding innovation analysis and environmental evaluation occurring in States, Tribes, other Federal agencies an non-governmental organizations.
We invite your feedback and input so that we can share the latest trends and advancements in environmental program evaluation and innovation analysis.
If you are new to this site, please click on the site map / help link for additional information about what evaluation resources can be found on this site.
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