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.
26 January 2013
Guides & Tutorials
IDRC have put together this useful guide entitled “How to write a policy brief”. It covers pretty much everything you need to think about when developing a new brief, from framing the problem and defining the structure, to developing actionable recommendations.
29 August 2012
Blog Posts
How many times have we had to write a policy brief on a very complex piece of research that has contained no clear take away messages?
15 August 2012
Blog Posts
How can specialist research findings be translated for the non-specialist audience while being both informative and engaging?
23 April 2012
This presentation was made at the The Network of Networks for Impact Evaluation (NONIE) annual meeting in Rome (April, 2012)….
16 December 2011
Blog Posts
Communicating effectively is a key to increase the impact of research. This is why GDNet dedicates its Research Communications Capacity…
29 November 2011
Audio & Video
I recently co-facilitated a Policy Brief Writing workshop for the Global Development Network (GDNet) and the African Economic Research Consortium…
30 July 2010
Papers & Reports
Policy briefs are short documents that present the findings and recommendations of a research project to a non-specialist reader- ship….
16 July 2010
Journal Articles
Policy briefs are a relatively new approach to packaging research evidence for policymakers. The first step in a policy brief is…
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