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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  1. UK search & rescue team work in heavy snow in Kamaishi, Japan
    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
    RAPID’s approach to policy engagement will be built in to this substantial transdisciplinary natural and social science research project from the beginning, supporting efforts to maximize policy uptake of research into continental seismic risk and resilience.
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  3. Evidence-based policy making: challenges, methods, and innovations in assessing policy influence

    Event - Public event - 2 June 2012 12:15 - 13:45 (GMT-05)

    In this seminar, Fred Carden, director of the Evaluation Unit at the International Development Research Centre, Canada; John Hoddinott, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute; and John Young, deputy director at the Overseas Development Institute, UK, discuss the need for assessing policy influence, share their experiences, and talk about the challenges of this process.

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  5. ‘Knowledge Policy and Power in International Development: A Practical Guide’ – European Book Launch

    Event - Public event - 1 May 2012 17:00 - 19:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

    On 1st May ODI will officially launch a new practical book focused on understanding how knowledge, policy and power interact to promote or prevent change in international development. This launch event provides an opportunity to discuss the book's findings and recommendations with experts from the Global South and North, as well as consider ways in which these aspects can be taken forward practically.

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  7. K*: knowledge management and mobilisation

    Projects - April 2012
    K* is the collective term for the set of functions and processes at the various interfaces between knowledge, practice, and policy. ODI is engaging with the discussions emerging from the K* conference in Hamilton, Canada, in April 2012.
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  8. Louise Shaxson

    Once a K* practitioner, always a K* practitioner

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 20 April 2012
    'I’m greatly looking forward to the K* conference - any policymaking process means making decisions, and decisions need knowledge. Whether we work with government, as practitioners or in the private sector; we need to be sure that we are correctly interpreting the evidence in front of us. And the more complex the decisions, the more knowledge is power.'
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