There’s a common story in development research. It goes like this. If academics from the global North, researchers from the global South, and CSOs participate…
Getting to grips with the politics of research collaboration
07/11/2018
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The Global Guide to Research Impact
It’s not easy to measure the impact of development research in bringing about positive change. It’s even harder to show how communications efforts, and expenditure, helps to achieve both research objectives, and development outcomes. This section aims to offer key resources and insights to help support better monitoring and evaluation of research uptake activities.
07/11/2018
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There’s a common story in development research. It goes like this. If academics from the global North, researchers from the global South, and CSOs participate…
20/07/2018
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I recently published a learning report which documents my organisation’s experience using outcome mapping to plan, monitor, and evaluate research uptake. I work for the…
16/04/2018
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Conference title: Pushing the frontiers of evaluation effectiveness and excellence Date: 19-20 April Location: Sheraton Hotel, New Delhi The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation is celebrating…
08/03/2018
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Turns out living in a fishbowl isn’t always a bad thing. The fishbowl is an alternative facilitation technique to conventional panel discussions. It was used…
28/02/2018
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There has been a huge increase in the quantity and quality of data, evidence, and analysis about African policy. But despite extensive evidence that development…
05/01/2018
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2017 has been a busy year for Research to Action! We facilitated two new webinar series ‘A cup of tea with…‘ and the ‘Research Uptake…
01/11/2017
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Last month the Research to Action Roundtable series brought together a group of evaluators from the DFID-funded What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and…
18/09/2017
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The R2A roundtables continue this month with ‘Evaluating research uptake, impact and communicating evaluations’ on 28 September. The DFID-funded What Works to Prevent Violence evaluation…
15/09/2017
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It might feel like we are living in strange times. One where rhetoric and storytelling are often used by our political leaders in place of…
14/08/2017
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We have turned the ‘Cup of tea with’ webinar series into a playlist of shorter podcasts, available now to listen to for free on Research…
20/07/2017
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How do we manage the delicate balance between ‘technical’ and ‘social’ in translating evidence to action? On the 29 June we held the inaugural Research…
11/07/2017
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Research to Action recently held its first webinar series. The 30-minute webinars aimed to unpack a particular aspect of research uptake over a cup of…
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