At this forum, Ajoy Datta provided a tutorial on an approach to developing policy engagement strategies. The Forum had three major objectives: i) To share, discuss, and document outcomes and lessons from different Acacia-supported projects; ii) To provide capacity development and networking opportunities; and iii) To explore future research priorities in ICT4D in Africa.
This report summarizes case studies from three diverse post-conflict contexts on the production and use of governance evidence at both the general and sectoral levels.
The paper presents six key lessons that are essential to any researcher or organisation wishing to generate evidence-based policy change, and an eight-step approach for policy entrepreneurs wishing to maximise the impact of research on policy. This is known as the RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach (ROMA).
This working paper explores the link between knowledge and policy in development, focussing on policy processes as a form of discursive power.
This paper explores six key areas of the knowledge–development policy interface with the aim of stimulating more nuanced debates and the development of tailored tools for actors involved in knowledge translation processes – including knowledge generators, brokers or users.
Violence erupted in the Peruvian Amazonia earlier this month, when thousands of indigenous people, protesting against legislation that would open up the country’s rainforest to logging, gas and oil contractors, were met by a poorly planned police response. During the events that ensued hundreds of indigenous protesters were killed or injured, and thousands displaced. At least 23 police officers also died.
In this article, Enrique Mendizabal explains why this political problem requires a political solution.
Science and technology are playing an increasingly important role in the policy process. There is, however, very little research that systematically examines the science–policy interface in developing countries, and little practical advice on how to strengthen linkages between scientific knowledge and the policy process.
Well, that depends, as researchers would say. It would be great to be the number one go-to think tank if this meant more contracts, more interest from policy-makers, more resources, more media attention, more influence, etc.
The focus of this issue of the is on complimentary approaches and tools for OM.
