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   Women carrying cartons of oil, IDP camp, Uganda

   Women carrying cartons of oil to the distribution site at Oromi IDP camp, Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 18 May 2007. WFP is to maintain the 40 percent ration for 1.28 million displaced in northern Uganda its food supplies are normalized.
   License: ODI given rights
   Credit: Manoocher Deghati
   Source: IRIN
   

   DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme

   Projects - September 2012 to August 2016

   The Department for International Development (DFID) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Growth Research Programme  seeks to generate high quality evidence on economic growth in low income countries.

   The first call for proposals focused on three core areas:

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2. The political economy of the use of knowledge in urban resilience and natural disaster risk management in the Philippines

   Projects - August 2012

   The Research for Policy Change in Southeast Asia and the Pacific grant of AusAID to ODI RAPID is divided in four main work streams. Work stream 4 refers to the strengthening of the participation and membership to the Evidence Based Policy in Development Network (www.ebpdn.org) in SEA through innovative pieces of research implemented in close collaboration with local research institutes/government institutions.

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   UK search & rescue team work in heavy snow in Kamaishi, Japan

   Members of the UK International Search and Rescue team working in heavy snow, in the earthquake and tsunami-shattered residential streets of Kamaishi, in north-east Japan.
   License: Creative Commons
   Credit: Ed Hawkesworth/DFID
   Source: Flickr
   

   Increasing resilience to natural hazards

   Projects - July 2012 to June 2017

   Earthquakes and volcanoes cause enormous human suffering and economic damage, accounting for the loss of millions of lives, and at a cost of billions of dollars. Further research effort is needed to enhance the understanding of the physical processes behind such natural hazards, but also their effects and implications for their prediction and mitigation.

   
   

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4. The political economy of knowledge use in the health sector in Cambodia

   Projects - July 2012 to November 2012

   Part of the AusAID research for policy in South East Asia programme, this study will look at the dynamics of decision making in the health sector in Cambodia. Taking a broad view from the formulation to the implementation of health policy, it will look at how knowledge, policy and power interact to shape decisions and outcomes. The findings will primarily provide guidance for:

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5. Monitoring and evaluation of policy influence of four Australian universities involved in the Health Knowledge Hubs initiative

   Projects - June 2012 to March 2013

   ODI has been engaged by AusAID to assist the Knowledge Hubs for Health to improve the communication and dissemination of research, and improve the reporting of research results.

   The Health Knowledge Hubs are a strategic initiative funded by AusAID that provide improved health knowledge and expertise to inform policy dialogue at national, regional and international levels by both AusAID and development partners.

   AusAID funded the establishment of four Health Knowledge Hubs: 

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6. Policy influence and communications capacity building for the Islam Research Programme

   Projects - May 2012 to December 2012

   ODI/RAPID will work with The Islam Research Programme (IRP) project office to provide policy engagement capacity development support to IRP Research projects in nine different countries. The aim is to help each team develop their research communication skills, to enable them to package and deliver their findings to policy-makers (particularly Dutch Embassy staff) and other relevant stakeholders for policy influence.

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   Walking through maze

   A boy walks through a grass maze
   License: Creative Commons
   Credit: ailatan
   Source: Flickr
   

   The Methods Lab: Improving practice and building capacity for impact evaluation in AusAID

   Projects - April 2012 to May 2016

   Policymakers and aid agencies are under increasing pressure to justify public spending on social and economic development programmes. There is limited rigorous evidence on whether the resources spent on particular interventions actually improve people’s lives.

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8. K*: knowledge management and mobilisation

   Projects - April 2012

   There are a great many terms used to depict knowledge sharing activities.  Terms such as knowledge brokering, knowledge translating, knowledge exchange, and knowledge mobilization are all used extensively, but the different terminology has hidden the fact that the actual functions they describe are all systemically related to each other. 

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9. Process evaluation of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)

   Projects - April 2012 to October 2012

   The project aims to understand coverage accurately and who is participating in or benefitting from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) programme, whilst also looking at the quality of the processes it is implementing.  
   
   The fundamental objectives of this project are:
   To ensure transparency and accountability To develop and improve the programme and its processes To identify any lessons and techniques which may be useful to other programmes and outside stakeholders

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10. Policy influence monitoring

    Projects - March 2012 to February 2015

    The 3ie policy influence monitoring project is an exciting and rare opportunity to do some serious thinking, in a quality learning laboratory, about what are the factors and variables that inform how and when evaluations influence policy.  This is important work; if we do not create the intellectual space in which to investigate, reflect, analyse, understand and share learning around such factors, evaluators and their funding backers will continue to invest increasingly scarce resources in precious learning that is invisible, ignored or ineffective in moving on our thinking about what works

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