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This list of how to’s provides an essential guide for a number of key communication and engagement activities that will help make your research travel.
- Theory of Change
- Uptake Strategy
Tasks
- Knowing your audience
  Knowing your audience
  Not everyone will find your research useful. You need to know who your audience is and what information they need in order to communicate with them effectively.
  Tasks
  Communication strategy
  Mapping context
  Targeting policy actors
  Targeting practitioners
  Using ICTs
  Using online tools
  Using social media
  Working with the media
  Content by Type
  Audio & Video
  Blog Posts
  Guides & Tutorials
  Journal Articles
  Papers & Reports
- Making your research accessible
  Making your research accessible
  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.
  Tasks
  Building Capacity
  Building Linkages
  Communicating Research
  Communication strategy
  Evidence into policy
  Mapping context
  Targeting policy actors
  Targeting practitioners
  Theory of change
  Using ICTs
  Using intermediaries
  Using multi media
  Using online tools
  Using social media
  Writing policy briefs
  Content by Type
  Audio & Video
  Blog Posts
  Guides & Tutorials
  Journal Articles
  News & Opportunities
  Papers & Reports
  Presentation slides
  Templates & Toolkits
- Monitoring and evaluation
  Monitoring and evaluation
  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.
  Tasks
  Applying M&E methods
  Building Capacity
  Communicating Research
  Measuring success
  Targeting policy actors
  Theory of change
  Content by Type
  Audio & Video
  Blog Posts
  Guides & Tutorials
  News & Opportunities
  Papers & Reports
  Templates & Toolkits
- News
  News
  The latest news and opportunities in the field of research communication and uptake.
  Tasks
  Building Capacity
  Communicating Research
  Measuring success
  Content by Type
  Blog Posts
  Key Resources
  News & Opportunities
Content by Type
Dialogue
- 3ie Policy Influence and Monitoring (PIM) project
- DFID/AusAid Research Communication and Uptake Workshop

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Journal Articles

The impact of HIV and AIDS research: A case study from Swaziland

17 June 2011

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The paper demonstrates that, although complex, and not without methodological issues, impact assessment of research can be of real value…

Investing in the future: lessons learnt from communicating the results of HSV/ HIV intervention trials in South Africa

17 June 2011

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Communicating the results of randomised controlled trials may present challenges for researchers who have to work with communities and policy-makers…

A Brief Look at Effective Health Communication Strategies in Ghana

12 June 2011

Health communication

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Health communication is widely considered to be a major aspect of any public health campaign. Strategies integrated into a community,…

Preparing and using policy briefs to support evidence-informed policymaking

16 July 2010

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Policy briefs are a relatively new approach to packaging research evidence for policymakers. The first step in a policy brief is…

How Can We Support the Use of Systematic Reviews in Policymaking?

9 July 2010

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The article, How Can We Support the Use of Systematic Reviews in Policymaking? Talks about how the landscape has changed…