The Nile Basin Discource workshop was a six-day training held for Nile Discourse Forums' (NDFs) representatives of the ten riparian countries that share the Nile basin.
The main objective of the workshop, which was facilitated by Naved Chowdhury and Dr. Fletcher Tembo, was to share knowledge and information for civil society in southern Africa to better link its advocacy activities to research.
This workshop, facilitated by the ODI's Naved Chowdhury and Fletcher Tembo, provided a useful platform for sharing experiences about the CSO policy context in Southern Africa, and how they have used different approaches to policy influence. It also contributed to a deeper understanding of how to bridge the gap between policy and research.
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The workshop aimed to consolidate lessons from recent analytical work on the drivers of poverty and chronic poverty in 'spatial poverty traps' and to review experience from government and civil society policy experiments in such areas.
The workshop helped introduce some key issues around policy engagement and the new aid mechanisms available for international cooperation.
Participants representing 13 CSOs from different Latin American countries exchanged knowledge, practical experiences, tools and methodologies related to policy influence. They also developed potential national and regional strategies to share this knowledge with other members of the Latin American network within the Civil Society Partnerships Programme.
This workshop aimed to share experiences about CSOs policy context in different countries; learn about the latest worldwide research and practice in this area; share experiences about approaches to influence policy and what works; and start to develop strategies to improve policy impact.
This workshop was designed for researchers, consultants, the private sector, policy makers and development practitioners and focused on practical strategies for bridging research and policy, taking into consideration the development of economic policy that focuses on the very poor.
This two and a half hour workshop aims to enable participants to better understand the political dimensions associated with policy change and to consider how to develop political strategies for policy change in their realm of concern.
This workshop aims to exploring the following questions: What do we mean by evidence? What are the characteristics of 'credible' evidence? Is it possible to rank these characteristics in relation to making evidence convincing?