Strategies

To make procurement and grant-making more evidence-based, workforce agencies need a specific evidence framework, with corresponding equity considerations, that fits their unique contexts.

Prioritizing evidence can ensure the effectiveness of interventions, improve equity by addressing disparities across populations, and enhance accountability and transparency in the allocation of resources.

Performance-based grants and contracts can achieve better and more equitable outcomes by linking payments to whether a provider delivers on priority outputs and outcomes.

Treating contracts and grants as partnerships, instead of compliance documents, can transform workforce programming, improve service delivery, and create bi-directional accountability for stewardship of funding and impacts.

Workforce agencies can evaluate service delivery models, learn which strategies are effective for their communities, and use that knowledge to improve programs and shape future funding opportunities.

Blending, braiding, and sequencing - can be used to maximize the impact of a program. While practitioners might use these terms interchangeably, there is a substantial difference to funders with specific compliance requirements.