You recognise the situation: you’re a policymaker or a Programme Manager with responsibility for designing or implementing a climate change adaptation programme. You need to…
User-testing new climate change adaptation options
26/05/2015
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Designing a Policy Influence Plan: Key Toolkits
06/05/2015
Templates & Toolkits
An influence plan must identify and unpack the steps which contribute to specify and define problems, objectives, actions and necessary resources to promote change in public policy….
How good are you at research uptake? New tool helps assess capacity.
05/05/2015
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Whose capacity? Developing capacity of decision makers and knowledge brokers to use and demand research has been recognised as strategy to support research uptake. However,…
Monitoring and Evaluating Policy Influence: Key Toolkits
05/05/2015
Templates & Toolkits
GDNet and CIPPEC have produced these helpful toolkits addressing the various steps of the monitoring and evaluation process of policy influence. They profile aspects such as the…
Research Communication for Policy Influence: Key Toolkits
21/04/2015
Templates & Toolkits
5 toolkits addressing different aspects and tools on research communication for policy influence
A systematic review of barriers to, and facilitators of, the use of evidence by policymakers
31/03/2015
Papers & Reports
A systematic review to identify new barriers of and facilitators to the use of evidence by policymakers, and assess the state of research in this area.
K4Health Research Utilization Toolkit: Top 8 Resources
20/03/2015
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Trinity Zan is a member of FHI 360’s Research Utilization (RU) team. She has put together a useful list of ‘top’ resources taken from the…
Independent Analysis and Ethics: The case of the “Uncomfortable Truth”
19/03/2015
During a session on the role of ethics at the Exchange, Margarita Beneke De Sanfeliu, from FUSADES, discussed how the think tank retains reputational integrity…
Elections Peru: Focusing the electoral debate
09/03/2015
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The Peruvian Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES) (Economic and Social Research Consortium) is a Peruvian umbrella organisation with 48 institutional members, including think tanks,…
Dear Think Tanks, No One is Reading Your PDFs
27/02/2015
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“What if someone had already figured out the answers to the world’s most pressing policy problems, but those solutions were buried deep in a PDF,…
We know context matters…but how?
25/02/2015
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The relatively young field of social accountability (SAc) has boomed in recent years. Conferences have proliferated, research has expanded, and important global actors like the…
Designing social accountability differently
24/02/2015
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There is a dirty little secret in transparency and accountability circles: Some percentage of social accountability interventions fail. We don’t know what that percentage is…
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