Regular readers of this website do not need to be told that evidence is important. It is essential in shaping both our understanding of the…
What international crisis coverage reveals about the aid system
23/07/2025
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Why research users are central to research impact
04/07/2025
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If you want your research to make a difference, you need to think about who will use it. The Research Impact Academy has recently published…
Whose knowledge counts in development research?
27/06/2025
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Who truly shapes the global academic landscape? In this academic article, Sarah Cummings and Paul Hoebink pull back the curtain on a significant imbalance in…
Knowledge brokers: what are they and what do they do?
26/03/2025
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There are many titles and phrases for anyone who works in information, communication, and knowledge brokering in the world of evidence. The roles are as…
Who will step up to fill the USAID gap?
19/02/2025
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The recent decision by President Donald Trump to freeze all foreign aid has significant and sometimes life-threatening implications for some of the poorest people in…
How can communities bounce back from climate disasters? Policymakers must consider how companies’ reactions matter
13/01/2025
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Climate change puts communities around the world at increasing risk of catastrophic climate disasters. Last year, the floods caused by Storm Daniel wiped out entire…
Tackling Child Labour: The CLARISSA Programme
13/12/2024
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Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) was a transformative five-year initiative aimed at addressing some of the most severe forms of child…
Profiling the Evidence Ecosystem in West Africa
11/11/2024
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I recently had the pleasure of attending a webinar during Africa Evidence Week where the EPA Center of Excellence – a joint initiative of the…
The Mastercard Foundation Youth Think Tank
21/10/2024
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If, like us, you are passionate about the inclusion and engagement of young people in research, then we highly recommend that you peruse the Mastercard…
Youth-focused initiatives: Youth Employment Evidence and Insights Hub
11/10/2024
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The Youth Employment Evidence and Insights Hub (YEEIH) is a new initiative led by the Pan-African Collective for Evidence (PACE) with the support of the…
Theories of Change: A guide to monitoring and evaluating policy influence
19/09/2024
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This 12-page paper by Harry Jones for the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) looks at how to monitor and evaluate activities that aim to influence policy….
Youth-focused initiatives: Young Lives
06/09/2024
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Led by the University of Oxford, Young Lives is a unique longitudinal study of poverty and inequality that has been following the lives of 12,000…
Youth-focused initiatives: SheDecides.
30/08/2024
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SheDecides is a diverse global political movement fighting for a world where every woman, girl, and young person has autonomy over their body, life and…
Impact to Implementation: measurement, partnerships and storytelling
22/08/2024
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This 5-page article, authored by Lisa Carson, Catherine Althaus, Helen Sullivan, and Brigid van Warooy, serves as an introduction to the AJPA symposium titled ‘Generating…
Re-thinking impact: the role of context, voice, and power
14/03/2024
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This 15-page academic paper 1 by Mark Reed and Hannah Rudman identifies three factors that may help increase the likelihood that research outcomes are perceived…
How to overcome research-policy barriers and strengthen uptake – lessons from United Nations
03/08/2023
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This 18-page conference report produced by the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies aims to…
Evaluation of current research-policy engagement activities and why they are failing
20/07/2023
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This 23-page academic paper by a team of UK and U.S. scientists looks at research-policy engagement activities, studies their impact and draws lessons for those…
How to map stakeholders and develop a Theory of Change – insights from Growth research programme
29/06/2023
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This 20-page guidance note written by Louise Shaxson for the DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme (DEGRP) covers stakeholder mapping and the development of a Theory of…
Barriers to and facilitators of research use in policymaking
22/06/2023
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This 12-page systematic review by Kathryn Oliver, Simon Innvar, Theo Lorenc, Jenny Woodman and James Thomas studies the factors that influence the use of evidence…
Systematic reviews and their impact on policy and academia
20/04/2023
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This 195-page report by Sandy Oliver, Kusha Anand and Mukdarut Bangpan looks at the impact and use of 86 systematic reviews funded by the UK’s…
How research influences policy: case studies from Australia
16/03/2023
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This 11-page academic paper written by a team of Australian researchers aims to better understand how research influences policy. The authors study the impacts of…
Seven recommendations for better engagement between academics and policymakers
12/01/2023
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This 15-page academic paper published in the Policy Design and Practice journal analyses the activities of over 300 organizations investing in research-policy engagement, draws insights…
Three steps to fruitful communication with policymakers
29/12/2022
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This 8-page academic paper by researchers Paul Cairney and Richard Kwiatkowski presents a three-step strategy to help you communicate with policymakers more effectively. The authors…
The importance of partnerships for achieving impact
15/12/2022
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This 16-page academic paper written by Sarah Morton focuses on the role of research partnerships in creating impact. It describes three case studies in which…
Assessing research impact in three steps: case study from Ukraine
01/12/2022
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This 4-page case study written by Sarah Morton and Jennie Flemming introduces the Research Contribution Framework (RCF) for impact evaluation and applies the method to…
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