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Process and Partnership for Pro-Poor Policy
Change Project Initiation workshops, 21st - 25th Feburary
2005, Kenya
The ILRI Process and Partnership for Pro-Poor Policy Change
Project seeks to identify and institutionalise innovative
research and development mechanism and approaches that lead
to pro-poor policy outcomes. A series of case studies, focusing
on specific areas of policy change and in some cases specific
projects including in their objectives impacts at policy level,
will be carried out with emphasis on Eastern Africa. A major
focus will be on identifying how policymakers source information
that contributes to the policy process as well as the roles
of research vis-à-vis non research actors and on communications
between them. The case studies will provide a framework for
the institutions involved to learn and adopt new ways of working
to achieve their goals.
The project aims to achieve the following outputs:
- A validated methodology to evaluate the influence and
role of research and other information on policy decisions
and change
- Identification of innovative research and development
approaches that lead to pro-poor policy outcomes.
- A framework (principles and processes) to guide development
of new research and development projects
- Commitments from ILRI, NARS and partner institutions to
move towards mainstreaming and institutionalisation of the
identified approaches.
The first case study, on the DFID Smallholder Dairy Project
(SDP) in Kenya, which was implemented by KARI, ILRI and Ministry
of Livestock of the Republic of Kenya, will be undertaken
in February and March 2005.
The approach used for the case study will seek to combine
the best elements of three distinct methodologies:
- A classical case study approach - tracking forward from
specific research and related activities and assessment
of impact.
- An ODI-style Episode Study of a specific policy change
- tracking back to identify key actors and decisions, and
assess the relative importance of different factors, which
might have included research-based evidence.
- A retrospective outcome mapping - identifying changes
in behaviour of key project stakeholders during the project,
and analysing what was done, or happened to bring them about.
Two project initiation workshops were held to launch the
project as a whole, and to assemble preliminary information
for the SDP Case Study. Click on the links below for further
details:
- Methodology Workshop
- to familiarise SDP evaluation team members (and other
ILRI staff and staff from other organisations interested
in the evaluation of the impact of research on policy) with
the general approach and specific methods to be used in
the SDP case study.
- The Policy Impact
Workshop - to collect information about the project
from project staff and other stakeholders about the evolution
of policy and practice in the dairy sector in Kenya and
the project itself, and to explore the influence of specific
project activities.
- Workshop programme
(pdf 58kb)
- Project page
for further information on the Pro-poor Livestock Policy
Research project
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