International Forum on the Social Science –
Policy Nexus (IFSP)
20-24 February 2006, Argentina and Uruguay
Under the aegis of UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations
Programme (MOST), the International Forum on the Social Science
– Policy Nexus, held in Argentina and in Uruguay from February
20 to 24 2006, broke new ground in connecting social science research
to policy. The Forum, organized in conjunction with the Governments
of Argentina and Uruguay, and with the support of a wide range of
academic, policy, and NGO partners, offered an innovative space
for a new kind of dialogue, bringing together social science and
policy in the search for a common language and shared terms of engagement.
For more information on the forum, visit the UNESCO
website.
Naved Chowdhury and
Enrique Mendizabal,
in collaboration with Vanesa
Weyrauch, of CIPPEC
in Buenos Aires, delivered a half-day workshop on bridging research
and policy, the RAPID approach and the Civil
Society Partnership Programme. John Young joined them and the
collaborators from Bolivia and Peru, as well as other regional policy
entrepreneurs, for a planning meeting for a regional community of
practice on bridging research and policy. ODI used this opportunity
to strengthen links to regional institutions and practitioners as
well as to share its work and efforts to inform and inspire pro-poor
policy processes around the world.
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