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Clara Richards
May 5, 20154 min read
Barriers to research use in the public health sector
By Ian Sane at flickr.com under CC license [Editor’s Note: This post was originally published by Rose N. Oronje, PhD, Senior Policy &...
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Clara Richards
Apr 9, 20154 min read
The role of evidence in policy making: using external information, broadening the contributions’ hor
Courtesy of phanlop88 at www.freedigitalphotos.com [Editor’s note: This post is part of a series produced by Leandro Echt and Vanesa...
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Clara Richards
Mar 24, 20154 min read
The role of evidence in policy making: using internal information, the State as a generator of evide
By Tontographer en flickr.com under CC license [Editor’s note: This post is part of a series produced by Leandro Echt and Vanesa Weyrauch...
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Clara Richards
Mar 19, 20152 min read
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 read
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
Feb 3, 20154 min read
Training opportunity in Latin America: online course “Leaders of change: developing Latin Amer
[Editor’s note: this post announces the call for applications for an online course targeted to policymakers in Latin America on the use...
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Clara Richards
Jan 27, 20152 min read
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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Clara Richards
Jan 13, 20153 min read
Is there room for evidence? Factors affecting the use of information in policy making (part 1)
Incorporating evidence into decision making processes is not a linear task. On the one hand, evidence coexists with other various...
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Leandro Echt
Dec 4, 20144 min read
The role of evidence in policy making: “The ideal adviser should meet three skills: analytical-conce
[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 18, 20143 min read
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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Clara Richards
Nov 11, 20145 min read
The 3Ps: Politics, Policymaking and Politicians
For a decade and a half now, I have been exposed to what I call the 3Ps – politics, policymaking, and politicians. Particularly, my work...
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Clara Richards
Oct 21, 20143 min read
Voices from the ground: policy makers’ challenges to the use of evidence
[Editor’s note: This post is the fourth of a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to share what we...
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Clara Richards
Sep 30, 20144 min read
What are we missing when trying to develop policy makers capacities to use evidence?
As part of the development of an online course at P&I, we have been reviewing a broad set of available resources (papers, toolkits,...
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Clara Richards
Sep 10, 20141 min read
Giving more voice to Southern policymakers to co-build a new capacity development agenda
[Editor’s note: This post is the second of a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to share what we...
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Clara Richards
Sep 2, 20143 min read
Capacity development for policymakers: a new opportunity to learn and co-create relevant knowledge
Thanks to the support of Vayayiko Grants from INASP, at P&I we have recently started a new project to enhance current capacity of...
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Clara Richards
May 13, 20143 min read
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
Feb 27, 20144 min read
Evidence Based Policy + Citizen Participation: can they be combined?
[Editor’s note: This post was written by René Cardoso Baltazar (@rcardosob), strategic advisor to the International Foundation for the...
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Clara Richards
Dec 10, 20133 min read
Challenges in Practice – Thoughts on ‘Lessons Learned’ (Part 2)
[Editor’s note: This is the second post by Alex Ademokun reflecting on the recent Politics & Ideas paper ‘Lessons learned promoting links...
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Clara Richards
Nov 27, 20134 min read
Challenges in Practice – Thoughts on ‘Lessons Learned’ (Part 1)
[Editor’s Note: This post is the first of two by Alex Ademokun, who manages the Evidence-Informed Policy Making programme at INASP.]...
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Clara Richards
Nov 25, 20134 min read
Building a new concept: Political Knowledge Regimes
[Editor’s note: This post presents Adolfo Garcé’s paper ‘Political-Knowledge Regimes‘. It follows a previous post that gives an overview...
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