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.
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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.
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:
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.
OPML has commissioned Anna McCord to provide training services on the public works component of a training course being run by OPML on social transfers and labour intensive public works which is being held in Congo-Brazzaville and funded by UNICEF Congo-Brazzaville.
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
Participants taking part in a research communications workshop hosted by TrustAfrica and facilitated by the communications team at ODI
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This two-day workshop focused on research communications and policy influence and was held in Pretoria, South Africa for TrustAfrica's Investment Climate and Business Environment (ICBE) research fund grantees.
This training aims to work to increase the effectiveness of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s strategic and transformational work in the Governance field.