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RAPID Contributions at the GDN Annual Conference
The second GDN Bridging Research and Policy Project Workshop
was held on January 21-23rd in Dakar, Senegal immediately
before the Sixth GDN Annual Global Development Conference.
Julius Court and Enrique Mendizabal helped to facilitate the
BRP workshop, and Julius stayed on afterwards for the Conference
where he participated in two of the parallel sessions.
Bridging Research and Policy Workshop,
Dakar, 21-23 January 2005
Prior to the conference the second global workshop for the
GDN Global Research Project on Bridging Research and Policy
was held. The workshop's aim is threefold:
- To peer-review research findings from the interim and
final reports prepared by more than 20 research teams exploring
research-policy linkages across different areas of policymaking
and in a variety of policy contexts;
- To discuss the overall lessons from the two research
phases of the Bridging Research and Policy project, and
its contribution to the ongoing discussion of research-policy
linkages in the donor and development research communities;
- To extract and discuss practical lessons for a major
follow-on training and capacity-building program that would
give researchers, research administrators, policymakers
and donors operating in developing and transition countries
a better understanding of and the necessary tools for closing
the research-policy divide. This capacity-building program
will constitute the third and concluding phase of the Bridging
Research Project.
Click on the links below for further information on the workshop:
GDN Annual Conference: Bridging Research
and Policy in International Development, 24-26, 2005
The theme of the conference was Developing and Developed
Worlds: Mutual Impact. The two parallel sessions Julius participated
in were:
- Parallel 1.4: Improving Impacts of Research Partnerships
(Julius Court chairing)
The Swiss Commission for Research Partnership with Developing
Countries (KFPE) presented and discussed a publication,
which is based on analysis of a number of case studies
encompassing a wide variety of research partnerships,
discussions held during the various workshops of the "Impact
Assessment Working Group", and the main findings,
recommendations and conclusions derived. The workshop
(and publication) aimed to stress and wanted to discuss
the importance of impact planning, monitoring and assessment
as elements in the design and evaluation of research projects
or programmes - and show ways on how to improve impacts
in research partnership projects.
- Parallel 4.3: Bridging Research and Policy (Julius
Court discussant)
This session highlighted research generated as a result
of two research phases of the GDN Global Research Project
on Bridging Research and Policy and its contribution to
the ongoing discussion of research-policy linkages in
the donor and development research communities. The session
also addressed implications for the concluding phase of
the Bridging Research Project - a major follow-on training
and capacity-building program that would give researchers,
research administrators, policymakers and donors operating
in developing and transition countries a better understanding
of and the necessary tools for closing the research-policy
divide.
Click on the links below for further information:
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