Grey Literature in Public Administration: An Example of a Specific Quality Assessment System

In the current discussion about "evidence" of effectiveness in health promotion and prevention, there is a call for including knowledge about the management processes and context of intervention implementation. Evaluation traditionally takes these aspects into account in judging the value and effectiveness of interventions. But evaluation reports are not often integrated into the evidence building process as they do not match the quality criteria of "published" research. However, we argue that this does not necessarily mean that their scientific quality is inferior. This paper looks at a specific system of quality assurance and assessment procedures for managing evaluation studies as a basis for the discussion on how to broaden the concept of "evidence" to include information gathered through evaluation studies. The Competence Centre for Evaluation (CCE) of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (SFOPH) commissions external evaluation studies of public health interventions.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notes, Pratt student commentaryXAInternationa