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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
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- 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
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- 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
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  News & Opportunities
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- News
  News
  The latest news and opportunities in the field of research communication and uptake.
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Dialogue
- 3ie Policy Influence and Monitoring (PIM) project
- DFID/AusAid Research Communication and Uptake Workshop

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Using ICTs

Integrating ICT during the research design phase

20 March 2013

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Kennedy Oulu shares his experiences of trying to integrate ICT during the design phase of a research project, and reflects on some of the benefits in terms of expanding buy-in and increasing the transparency of the research process.

Opening up research data

25 January 2013

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Open data on the web makes it possible to take information on research from many sources, and to generate ‘mash-ups’ that make it available in different places, on different platforms, and in ways that support action and impact.

New IDS Bulletin: New Roles for Communication in Development?

1 October 2012

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The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) have recently published a new Bulletin entitled New Roles for Communication in Development? (Lewin,…

Early headlines from research on policy makers and ICTs

23 May 2012

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This is an interesting series of posts by Simon Batchelor on the impact and learning blog (IDS) talking about his…