RAPID believes strongly in the necessity of establishing effective
partnerships that span the globe. These partnerships help produce more
relevant and context-specific research and can aid in policy engagement
and research dissemination.
Tasked with establishing institutional partners for the ODI, RAPID
has spent several years developing the Evidence-based
Policy in Development Network (ebpdn), which includes over twenty
partner organisations around the world. We have also worked closely
with the Canadian International Development
Research Centre (IDRC) to establish an online community of practice
on an evaluation technique known as Outcome
Mapping.
Within ODI, RAPID works with other programmes to lock together high
quality applied research, practical policy advice, and policy-focused
dissemination and debate. In particular, we work closely with the Social
Development programme on issues of gender and
with the International Economics in
Development Group (IEDG) on issues of trade.
The institute's Communications and IT teams also collaborate with the
RAPID programme to share knowledge gained from practice.
