The Global Guide to Research Impact
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
10/02/2011
Guides & Tutorials
This paper provides an overview of approaches to monitoring and evaluating policy influence
22/01/2011
Guides & Tutorials
INASP works with partners to support global research communication through innovation, networking and capacity strengthening. We focus on the needs of developing and emerging countries. The second, five-year…
23/10/2010
Papers & Reports
This paper lays out the reasons why we might want to examine the difference that research can make. It then explores different ways of approaching this problem, outlining the core issues and choices that arise when seeking to assess research impact.
16/07/2010
Journal Articles
Policy briefs are a relatively new approach to packaging research evidence for policymakers. The first step in a policy brief is to prioritise a policy issue….
Paula Fray
Shubha Jayaram
Sue Martin
Maria Balarin
James Harvey
Emily Hayter
Susan Koshy
Ronald Munatsi
Ajoy Datta
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