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…
IKME Fourth Evaluation Paper
21/01/2012
Papers & Reports
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.
21/01/2012
Papers & Reports
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…
19/01/2012
Blog Posts
There is an ever greater need to think about information and knowledge flow – what works and what doesn’t. As the demand for effective research…
22/12/2011
Papers & Reports
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.
16/12/2011
Blog Posts
Communicating effectively is a key to increase the impact of research. This is why GDNet dedicates its Research Communications Capacity Building Programme to help researchers…
14/12/2011
Blog Posts
In the Summer of 2005, I can remember watching a report during the evening news on the state run national broadcaster in Zambia on the…
14/12/2011
Blog Posts
In June a really valuable special supplement was published in the open access journal Health Research Policy and Systems. Contributors to this supplement, Sally Theobald…
30/11/2011
Blog Posts
In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in international development circles in protecting and using indigenous knowledge. Countries such as Kenya and…
29/11/2011
Audio & Video
I recently co-facilitated a Policy Brief Writing workshop for the Global Development Network (GDNet) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) in Nairobi, Kenya. This…
15/11/2011
Blog Posts
Blogs, wikis, social networking sites and other web 2.0 tools have the potential to transform research collaboration and knowledge-sharing and are often included in research…
14/11/2011
News & Opportunities
A new programme that aims to enhance development research and its uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa was launched earlier this month.The Development Research Uptake in Sub-Saharan…
27/10/2011
Guides & Tutorials
That’s the most important idea in this manual. Many people assume that the main purpose of writing is to convey information.
But effective writing does more than that. Behind the ‘information’ or ‘facts’, there is always something else that writers ar…
23/10/2011
Papers & Reports
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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