Outcome: CSOs participate actively in Southern and Northern policy networks to promote pro-poor policies

ODI's networks are long established and include a very wide range of government and non-government members from North and South, though mainly from policy and research communities. There is an opportunity both to expand their membership to include more CSOs, and mobilise their members, with existing and new ODI partners, to promote CSO participation in Northern and Southern policy networks. This will improve the volume and quality of the evidence and knowledge that Southern CSOs can bring to bear on local policy-makers, and the volume and legitimacy of evidence that Northern CSOs can use to promote pro-poor policies in the North.

Under this outcome, CSPP will:

• Conduct a collaborative study to identify CSOs and CSO networks in the North and South interested in improving their use of research-based evidence in pro-poor policy work;
• Hold a series of virtual and real meetings through ODI’s own and other policy-research networks to identify and discuss common policy issues;
• Carry out a joint programme of analysis and action on selected policy issues to build capacity and learn how local and international CSOs can work together effectively in networks;
• Publish high-quality Southern research in the North, to be disseminated proactively through ODI contacts and networks;
• Implement Information, training and capacity building programmes to strengthen networking capacity for Southern development policy institutes.
  

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