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Collaborative Evidence Programme on Waste, Resource Efficiency and Sustainable Consumption (WReSCE Programme)

Defra’s ‘Evidence Investment Strategy: 2010-2013 and beyond’ highlighted the need to increase the level of partnership working across our evidence programmes, in order to share investments, knowledge and expertise.

The WReSCE Programme, established in 2011, provides a platform for evidence-based policy-making, and for selecting and implementing the most appropriate interventions for use in the delivery of policies, on waste, resource management and sustainable consumption in England and Wales. It provides evidence to support the needs of the Government Departments for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Energy & Climate Change (DECC); the Welsh Government (WG); and associated delivery bodies, the Environment Agency for England and Wales, and WRAP.

This programme builds on the current collaborative working arrangements across organisations by creating a new programme management framework to allow coordination and partnership-working. This will help us achieve efficiencies in the planning, commissioning and use of evidence.

Evidence includes reliable and accurate information that we can use to inform sound decisions in developing and implementing policy. It includes economics, statistics, natural and veterinary scientific information, social research, operational research, engineering, analysis, advice, monitoring and surveillance. Close alignment of evidence development and provision for policy requirements will continue to be central to the success of the programme.

Evidence Programme Thematic Structure

This evidence programme will be managed on a thematic basis to ensure that evidence from the different partner organisations is brought together around topics. Evidence will be provided to meet policy and delivery requirements under the following broadly defined themes:

  • Data and Indicators
  • Products
  • Resource Efficiency
  • Waste Collection and Sorting
  • Waste Treatment and Technologies

Further information

For more details on the objectives of the programme and on programme governance please refer to the Programme Description.

Procurement

All partner organisations will utilise their standard good practice to procure input to the WReSCE programme from external contractors. Partner organisations will explore the opportunities to ‘open up’ their procurement frameworks to other partners where possible.

Communications

Communications, internal and external, are an important element of the programme. Reports from evidence projects will be published using the usual publication channels of the programme partners:

More information

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