Toolkit for Evidence-Informed Policymaking in Migrant Integration
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Highlights
An EU-funded toolkit equips policymakers with practical tools to find, evaluate, fund, and disseminate evidence across every stage of the integration policy cycle.
- The integration field lags behind other policy areas in embracing evidence; politicisation, rapid-response pressures, and resource gaps all obstruct a stronger evidence culture.
- Policymakers should use a tiered approach to assess evidence quality—prioritising systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials while drawing on qualitative data where experiments are not feasible.
- Evaluations—process, impact, and value-for-money—are underused; results too often stay within small teams rather than feeding broader learning, limiting their influence on future policy design.
- Sustained funding, robust stakeholder engagement including migrants themselves, and targeted dissemination strategies are essential to translate evidence into lasting policy improvements.
Research and data are powerful tools in any policy area. Using this evidence to inform how policies are designed and implemented helps governments learn what works (and what does not) and under which conditions. It also helps ensure that public funds are used as effectively and efficiently as possible. In the integration field, the smart use of evidence can promote the well-being of both migrants and the broader societies in which they live.
This toolkit aims to help policymakers, program implementers, and other actors involved in migrant integration efforts more fully leverage evidence in their work, and thus promote the development of an evidence culture in the field. First, in Sections 1 through 4, it presents tools and strategies to infuse evidence into different phases of the policy cycle—from policy design and implementation to program evaluation and dissemination of the evidence collected. Then, in Sections 5 and 6, the toolkit offers resources on two issues that are important throughout the cycle: funding and stakeholder engagement.
The toolkit can either be downloaded in full, or as individual sections using the links in the Table of Contents below.
Table of Contents
1 An Introduction to Evidence-Informed Policymaking and This Toolkit
2 Finding and Assessing Evidence to Support Policy Design and Implementation
3 Evaluation to Strengthen Ongoing and Future Integration Programs
4 Amplifying Impact through the Dissemination of Evidence
5 Using Funding to Promote an Evidence Culture
6 Engaging Stakeholders in Evidence-Informed Integration Policymaking
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