The Global Guide to Research Impact
29/07/2013
Blog Posts
Dr. Roger Harris reflects on the impact of research on development policy and practice, built upon a literature review produced as a contribution to a new book for the SIRCA programme.
26/06/2013
Blog Posts
Jessica Romo introduces some of the valuable research SciDev.Net have been doing around Evidence Informed Policy Making. Jess introduces a blueprnt for for ensuring evidence is used for policy and development.
03/06/2013
Papers & Reports
New initiative by the UK government that seeks to create a series of evidence centres to improve the way evidence is used in policy.
28/05/2013
Papers & Reports
Have a look at this research paper discussing how to create more for less with the use of evidence, from Research Unit for Research Utilisation (RURU) School of Management University of St Andrews.
25/04/2013
Blog Posts
Mark Robinson, William Evans and Kirsty Newman from DFID’s Research and Evidence Division introduce the new “Assessing the Strength of Evidence” How to Note, which aims to improve the use of evidence within DFID.
02/04/2013
Blog Posts
Andrew Clappison argues there is one huge obstacle flying in the face of evidence informed policy making and that’s the fact we live in a socially constructed world, where politics, culture and power shapes peoples behaviour and norms.
27/02/2013
Papers & Reports
This paper explores and sumarises the discussions that took place during the International Conference on Evidence-Informed Policy Making in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
19/02/2013
Blog Posts
Aranaldo Pellini looks at how evidence is informing policy in Indonesia, arguing that a big push to strengthen the use of research and data analysis in the design of public policies is needed to sustain growth.
17/01/2013
Blog Posts
The word on the street is that ‘evidence informed’ policy is going to be big in 2013. R2A spoke to Antonio Capillo, part of the evidence informed policy making team at INASP, and asked him to recommend some blogs on the subject.
03/09/2012
Blog Posts
We caught up with Kirsty Newman last week to talk about her new role at DFID, what she learnt from her time at INASP, and to return to some of the issues she has blogged about previously on Research to Action.
09/06/2012
Papers & Reports
Just as there have been repeated calls for aid evaluation to move beyond outputs to measure downstream impacts, it is also important for the same principles to be internalised in thinking about impact evaluations themselves.
22/01/2012
Guides & Tutorials
Materials from INASP a programme to help policy makers and influencers to find, evaluate and use information to inform policy making.
Paula Fray
Shubha Jayaram
Sue Martin
Maria Balarin
James Harvey
Emily Hayter
Susan Koshy
Ronald Munatsi
Ajoy Datta
Social Media