This paper explores and sumarises the discussions that took place during the International Conference on Evidence-Informed Policy Making in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
What is the evidence on evidence‐informed policy making?
27/02/2013
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The Global Guide to Research Impact
If research can’t be found, or is not easily understood by target audiences it simply does not travel, falling at the first hurdle in the process of trying to bring about change.
27/02/2013
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This paper explores and sumarises the discussions that took place during the International Conference on Evidence-Informed Policy Making in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
22/11/2012
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This paper explores the assumptions underlying ‘evidence based’ approaches to poverty reduction impact assessment, and argues that the discourse of Evidence-Based Policy (EBP) does not always offer good guidance.
30/10/2012
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The K* concept paper, just released, looks to address the array of terms associated with knowledge mobilisation. The paper shows that many of these terms are systemically linked to each other and attempts to unify the field to some extent.
18/09/2012
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The research presented in this report was conducted during 2010 – 2011, funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada) and coordinated by Fundación Comunica with support…
09/06/2012
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Just as there have been repeated calls for aid evaluation to move beyond outputs to measure downstream impacts, it is also important for the same principles to be internalised in thinking about impact evaluations themselves.
23/05/2012
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This paper provides an indepth look at the rsearch ‘impact’ that can be attributed to blogging. Written by Berk Ozler and David McKenzie at the…
16/05/2012
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Co-published by the HSRC and the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) this report is an analysis of discussions and presentations that took place at the…
30/04/2012
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These useful links provided by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2006) discuss the role of intermediaries and the issues surrounding them, important when aiming…
23/01/2012
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In 2009, Young Lives obtained seed funding from IKMEmergent to find new ways in which to how to visualise data. After looking at a range of tools, the programme built an online ‘virtual village’.
21/01/2012
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This report is the fourth report in a series of evaluative reports commenting on the Information and Knowledge Management Emergent (IKME) research program. IKM is…
22/12/2011
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The objectives of this systematic review were to synthesise empirical evidence on the use of research evidence by public health decision makers in settings with universal health care systems.
23/10/2011
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There has been a great deal of interest in recent years in supporting evidence-informed policymaking in developing countries. In particular, there have been efforts to…
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