Materials from INASP a programme to help policy makers and influencers to find, evaluate and use information to inform policy making.
INASP: Information literacy for policy makers and influencers
22/01/2012
Guides & Tutorials
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Monitoring and evaluation (22/23)
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.
Learners, practitioners and teachers: Handbook on monitoring, evaluating and managing knowledge for policy influence
21/01/2012
Templates & Toolkits
The main purpose of this handbook is to facilitate the investment process of a public research institute (PRI) in developing a system of monitoring and…
Outcome Mapping: A Basic Introduction
20/01/2012
Key Resources
Outcome mapping (OM) is a methodology for planning and assessing projects that aim to bring about ‘real’ and tangible change. It has been developed with…
The Use of Research Evidence in Public Health Decision Making Processes: Systematic Review
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.
Institutional Strategies for Capturing Socio-Economic Impact of Academic Research
23/10/2011
Papers & Reports
One of the first important points when defining socio-economic impact is the distinction between „dissemination‟ and „impact‟. One of its main conclusions, that while disseminating to a wide range of audiences is positive, impact has to be evidenced by the application of the research outcomes by the user or community.
Stimulating Demand for Research Evidence: What Role for Capacity-building?
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…
Improving the flow of your information: Website usability testing
18/10/2011
Blog Posts
When developing online research resource portals, databases and community groups it is often difficult to assess how people will be using a platform as it…
Helping researchers become policy entrepreneurs: How to develop engagement strategies for evidence-based policy-making
14/08/2011
Papers & Reports
The paper condenses five years of work into six key lessons that are essential to any researcher or organisation wishing to generate evidence-based policy change.
Citations, Citations, Citations: Three ways to Track Research and Measure Impact
12/08/2011
Blog Posts
Measuring research’s impact is notoriously difficult as its effects on policy are hard to substantiate and partly due to the dominance of peer review as…
Participatory video for monitoring and evaluation: community-based adaptation in Africa
13/06/2011
Blog Posts
As mentioned in the post KM Impact Challenge: Some examples for research communications, InsightShare and IIED worked together recently in an action research project called…
African Researchers and Decision-makers: Building Synergy for Development
25/03/2011
Papers & Reports
This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the importance of synergy between researchers and decision-makers in Africa and how this can contribute to development.
Sound expectations: From impact evaluations to policy change
14/03/2011
Papers & Reports
Vanesa Weyrauch and Gala Diaz Langou have developed a conceptual framework to identify factors that help or hinder impact evaluation and analyze how they influence…
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James Harvey
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