The What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth helps to make local growth policy more cost-effective, through better use of evidence and evaluation.
We are a member of the What Works Network and are jointly hosted by the London School of Economics and Centre for Cities. We are funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Department for Business and Trade, and the Department for Transport.
Our core aim is to improve the use of evidence in local growth public policy. We support this by improving the use of evidence in policy, enabling more and better impact evaluation, and summarising what works using robust evidence.
WHAT WE CAN OFFER
How we can help
We support impact evaluations, deliver free training, and provide evidence and evaluation resources.
Evaluation support
Use of evidence
Training and events
Resources
