Please find below a list of recent events and workshops. Click on an event for more information and options or use the search on the right to find events in our archive.
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This conference will bring together researchers with an interest in the use of evidence in policy making and decision makers from policy making institutions. Ajoy Datta will give a presentation on understanding the incentives of policymakers before developing capacity development programmes for them to better use research in their decision making.
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A
conference.
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The conference aimed at boosting understanding of the development of civil society in Jordan, to chart out future direction of both policy and research, to disseminate knowledge off, and about civil society to all concerned and to increase interaction between civil society organisations and research institutes. Ajoy Datta delivered a presentation on the linkages between knowledge, politics and power.
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Documents
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Presentations
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A
conference.
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ODI and PDA Ghana are hosting a 3-day workshop in Accra, Ghana to introduce the basic principles of Outcome Mapping, with particular emphasis on their application to the planning phase of development projects and programmes.
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Course trainers:Julius Nyangaga - International Institute of Rural Reconstruction Simon Hearn - Research Officer, ODI
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An ODI and Participatory Development Associates
workshop.
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This event focused on knowledge brokerage in the social sciences. It was designed to encourage dialogue between knowledge exchange practitioners and organisations, and researchers who study knowledge exchange. John Young presented during the morning plenary whilst Ajoy Datta delivered a presentation on knowledge brokering in developing countries.
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A ESRC Genomics Network
conference.
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Speakers:Chandrika Nath - manager of African capacity building activities, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST). Hon Obua Denis Hamsom MP - Chair, Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Parliament of Uganda. Louise Shaxson - Research and Policy in Development (RAPID), Overseas Development Institute Ajoy Datta - Research and Policy in Development (RAPID), Overseas Development Institute. Kirsty Newman - Head of Evidence Informed Policy Making, International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications. Bryn Morgan - Director Research, Department of Information Services, House of Commons
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A UK Parliament
seminar.
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Tim Harford, columnist for the Financial Times, argues that because the world is complex and unpredictable, most interesting problems are inevitably solved through a process of experimenting and adapting - whether the experiments are formal controlled trials or more informal explorations. Drawing on case studies from development aid, business and medicine, he explores the practical and ethical implications of an experimental approach to development.
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Speaker: Tim Harford - journalist and visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford Dr Randolph Kent - Director, Humanitarian Futures Programme
Chair: Ben Ramalingam - Research Associate, ODI
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Audio / video
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An ODI public event.
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