Clara Richards
Fostering the use of evaluation and research in policy making: the Presidency’s Department of
South Africa has had a policy unit in the Presidency for some time, which since the mid-2000s also focused on M&E. This was reinforced in...
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Clara Richards
Mar 12, 20154 min
The role of evidence in policy making: “The demand for empirical evidence depends largely on decisio
What factors hinder the evaluation process, from the generation of information to its effective use in the public policy process? The...
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Clara Richards
Mar 9, 20154 min
The role of evidence in policy making: “We seek to send the message that data is relevant” (part 1)
What is the role that evidence generated by research may have on the policy process based on your experience? In Uruguay the reality is...
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Clara Richards
Feb 10, 20153 min
How to use research to improve health programs and services? Lessons from applying a self-assessment
I work for a small private non for profit health research center dedicated to Health Policy and Systems Research-HPSR-, a specific field...
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Clara Richards
Jan 27, 20152 min
The role of evidence in public policies: informing means or ends?
In ‘The Well-informed. Citizen: An Essay on the Social Distribution of Knowledge’, Alfred Schutz (1974) states: “… expect from the...
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Leandro Echt
Nov 25, 20143 min
How to analyze the results of policy influencing: lessons from a new method under construction
For some time, the Latin American Center for Rural Development (Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural, RIMISP) has been...
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Clara Richards
Nov 18, 20143 min
What’s the evidence on Evidence Informed Policy Making?
One of the key indicators of policy influence is ‘framing debates’ (Jones and Villar, 2008) and there is no doubt that the narratives...
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Leandro Echt
Nov 14, 20146 min
The role of evidence in policy making: “I use more information from those for whom I have a ce
[Editor’s Note: This interview is part of a wider series of talks with current and former officials, politicians and researchers from...
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Clara Richards
Nov 6, 20142 min
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning as an Organizational Development Process
The challenges of integrating a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system into policy research organizations are often greater...
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Clara Richards
Sep 18, 20141 min
The challenges facing southern researchers in the Arab world
Development experiences from many Arab countries show that the achievement of development in different sectors depends on the practical...
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Clara Richards
Sep 16, 20144 min
Implementing an M&E system – a postcard from the trenches
Implementing an M&E system – a postcard from the trenches ‘Seriously?! As if we don’t have enough work already! Besides, we’re...
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Clara Richards
Jul 31, 20142 min
Monitoring and evaluation for management
[Editor’s note: This post originally appeared at On Think Tanks. It is part of a series of posts reflecting on a long term mentoring...
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Clara Richards
Jul 15, 20146 min
Bringing analysis, evidence and new ideas on social development to the UN system: an interview with
In the Palais des Nations, the United Nations office in Geneva, there is room for UNRISD, a research institute focused on social...
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Clara Richards
Jul 10, 20143 min
M&E systems: the importance of adopting a systems approach to implementing M&E systems
[Editor’s note: This post is the second of a series of posts focused on the nitty-gritty of designing and implementing M&E systems by...
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Clara Richards
Jun 20, 20144 min
How can organisations better implement Monitoring and Evaluation plans?
[Editor’s note: This post is the first of a series of posts focused on the nitty-gritty of designing and implementing M&E systems by...
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Clara Richards
Jun 9, 20144 min
Cry for help: monitoring, evaluating and learning in the South, how can we do it better?
By kat m research at flickr.com under CC license Catherine Fisher´s post on our Lessons learned paper as well as Antonio Capillo´s points...
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Clara Richards
May 16, 20143 min
The need for expertise: how Civil Society Organisations engage with the Regulatory State
This post is based on a commentary by Kathryn Hochstetler that assesses the ways in which members of civil society “often shadow and...
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Clara Richards
May 13, 20143 min
Don’t waste efforts: how to make social innovations produce robust (knowledge and) evidence
Increasing the variety of perspectives has proven to deliver more sound knowledge. Knowledge Integration (KI) is the process of creating...
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Clara Richards
May 6, 20144 min
On Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning related to Capacity Building activities (II) – paradoxes and
I have written here on what are the elements of an effective Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system for capacity building (CB)...
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Clara Richards
Apr 25, 20143 min
On Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning of Capacity Building activities – methodologies
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Antonio Capillo, M&E Officer at INASP]. I have already written on this post on Lessons learned...
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