By Ian Sane at flickr.com under CC license [Editor’s Note: This post was originally published by Rose N. Oronje, PhD, Senior Policy &...

Courtesy of phanlop88 at www.freedigitalphotos.com [Editor’s note: This post is part of a series produced by Leandro Echt and Vanesa...

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...

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...

What factors hinder the evaluation process, from the generation of information to its effective use in the public policy process? The...

[Editor’s note: this post announces the call for applications for an online course targeted to policymakers in Latin America on the use...

In ‘The Well-informed. Citizen: An Essay on the Social Distribution of Knowledge’, Alfred Schutz (1974) states: “… expect from the...

Incorporating evidence into decision making processes is not a  linear task. On the one hand, evidence coexists with other various...

[Editor’s Note: This interview is part of a wider series of talks with current and former officials, politicians and researchers from...

One of the key indicators of policy influence is ‘framing debates’ (Jones and Villar, 2008) and there is no doubt that the narratives...

For a decade and a half now, I have been exposed to what I call the 3Ps – politics, policymaking, and politicians.  Particularly, my work...

[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...

As part of the development of an online course at P&I, we have been reviewing a broad set of available resources (papers, toolkits,...

[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...

Thanks to the support of Vayayiko Grants from INASP, at P&I we have recently started a new project to enhance current capacity of...

Increasing the variety of perspectives has proven to deliver more sound knowledge. Knowledge Integration (KI) is the process of creating...

[Editor’s note: This post was written by René Cardoso Baltazar (@rcardosob), strategic advisor to the International Foundation for the...

[Editor’s note: This is the second post by Alex Ademokun reflecting on the recent Politics & Ideas paper ‘Lessons learned promoting links...

[Editor’s Note: This post is the first of two by Alex Ademokun, who manages the Evidence-Informed Policy Making programme at INASP.]...

[Editor’s note: This post presents Adolfo Garcé’s paper ‘Political-Knowledge Regimes‘. It follows a previous post that gives an overview...