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Recent Additions
Civil Society as a Development Partner: Lessons
learned and ways forward for donor engagement
This roundtable event, hosted by DFID Policy and Asia Divisions,
and the CSPP in June 2006, brought together practitioners working
to strengthen civic engagement in Latin America, Africa, Asia and
the Pacific. Discussants tabled and compared alternative instruments
for support to civic engagement with the state and drawing on the
models presented, a number of lessons essential to the design and
delivery of civil society support were identified. More...
[RAPID website]
Civil Society Organisations and Policy Entrepreneurship
Workshop
A two-day workshop in Vietnam to share the learning on bridging
research and policy with the Vietnamese research community and to
discuss preliminary results from the CSPP project 'Understanding
the Role of Civil Society and Evidence-based Policymaking in Vietnam'.
More...
[RAPID website]
CSO Capacity for Policy Engagement: Lessons Learned
from the CSPP Consultations in Africa, Asia and Latin America
There is very little systematic research on how CSOs all over
the world are influencing policy processes, especially from the
point of view of those actually involved in the policymaking process
in the South. This paper aims to compare and contrast the lessons
that emerged from the CSPP Southern consultations regarding the
use of evidence-based policy-engagement, and for ODI to learn what
role it may take in aiding CSO involvement in policy processes in
the future, especially through the CSPP. More...
[RAPID website]
Understanding Networks: The Functions of Research
Policy Networks
Building on the lessons of networks studies focusing
on their usefulness and functions, this new Working Paper addresses
the problem of describing networks by considering the possible functions
that they can play to link up the various processes that allow the
bridging of research and policy. More...
[RAPID website]
Policy Engagement: How Civil Society Can be More
Effective
This new report shows why and how better use of evidence by
CSOs is part of the solution to increasing the policy influence
and pro-poor impact of their work. The report includes strategic
guidance and practical approaches regarding how CSOs can ensure
their policy engagement is more effective, influential and sustained.
More...
[RAPID website]
Policy Engagement for Poverty Reduction
This ODI Briefing Paper focuses on why and how CSOs can engage
more effectively in policy processes in international development.
It sets the scene and highlights the opportunities and challenges
facing CSOs policy work, then focuses on why evidence matters for
CSOs’ work in international development. It also provides a
framework that matches the engagement mechanisms and evidence needs
to the critical stages of policy processes and summarises strategic
and practical advice on how CSOs can ensure their policy engagement
is more effective, influential and sustained. More...
[RAPID website]
International Forum on the Social
Science-Policy Nexus
RAPID and the CSPP, in conjunction with CIPPEC, Argentina,
held a half day workshop on bridging research and policy at the
four-day forum in February 2006 in Argentina and Uruguay by UNESCO's
Management of Social Transformations Programme. The forum broke
new ground in connecting social science research to policy and was
an opportunity for ODI to strengthen links to regional institutions
and practitioners as well as to share its work and efforts to inform
and inspire pro-poor policy processes around the world. The summary
report of the workshop is now available. More...
[RAPID website]
Survey on CSOs, Policy Influence and Evidence
Use
This report presents the results of a survey of civil
society organisations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern
Europe, which addressed three major research questions: How are
CSOs influencing policies in their country? What is the context
in which they are influencing policy? What are these CSOs requesting
from ODI and what types of support do they need? This paper highlights
a number of clear and incisive findings. More...
[RAPID website]
Civil Society Organisations Case Studies
A collection of case studies (coordinated by RAPID)
of CSOs attempting to influence policy processes, gathered as a
means of learning about the challenges that CSOs face and the strategies
they follow to overcome them. The lessons learned from these cases
provide excellent examples of the existing practical knowledge of
policy influencing strategies held by development researchers and
practitioners in developing countries. More...
[RAPID website]
Examples of work by partner organisations
Partner organisations are keen to incorporate new approaches they
learn from each other to improve the impact of their work. Details
of work by AFREPREN,
CIPPEC and Unnayan
Onneshan.
Talking Heads Video Interviews
The programme has been experimenting with more accessible methods
to share ideas. Click here
to see and hear experts talking about how they think research-based
evidence could achieve greater impact.
Resources
A new section on the CSPP website outlining details of
and providing links to other organisations that work directly or
indirectly in the area of CSOs, Evidence and Policy Processes. These
include organisations that do research, network, build capacity,
provide funds and hold events. More...
The CSPP in Latin America
The CSPP consultations suggested that Latin America
is home to a rich and credible academic and research community,
however, Latin American researchers and practitioner recognise that
they have not been as successful in learning from experience. CSPP
is working on various activities and research, including the formation
of a network that would allow them to share their experiences, learn
from others and link up with peers in other regions of the world,
and enable CSPP to bring the lessons from Latin America to the rest
of the world and vice versa. More...
A meeting for UK-based NGOs on progress so far
and plans for Phase 2
The purpose of this half-day meeting was to share the results of
the Civil Society Partnership Programme so far, discuss what we
plan to do next and explore opportunities for collaboration and
/ or synergy with other UK-based organisations involved in similar
activities. More...
Policy Entrepreneurship and Advocacy Workshop
for Education CSOs in Zambia
This two day session on Policy Entrepreneurship was facilitated
by CSPP's Naved Chowdhury as part of the capacity development support
provided to southern CSOs by the Civil Society Partnerships Programme.
Forming part of a five day workshop on Advocacy and Policy Entrepreneurship
organised to expose Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC)
partners to the current theory and practice of evidence-based policymaking,
the workshop aimed to enhance participants' knowledge and skills
in advocacy, lobbying and policy entrepreneurship. More...
[RAPID website]
Policy Entrepreneurship Workshop for Child Workers
in Asia
This training workshop on Policy Entrepreneurship was held in Bangladesh
as part of the capacity development support provided to southern
CSOs by the Civil Society Partnerships Programme. It aimed to expose
Child Workers in Asia (CWA) partners to current theory and practice
of evidence-based policymaking and to assist them in developing
a strategy to strengthen work towards eliminating bonded child labour
in Asia. More...
[RAPID website]
Capacity Development for Policy Advocacy: Current
thinking and approaches among agencies supporting Civil Society
Organisations
This new Working Paper (WP260) presents a summary of current thinking
on issues of capacity building for Northern and Southern organisations
involved in using research-based evidence in policy processes, and
provides some examples of current practice among organisations involved
in work similar to that of the CSPP. More
on CSPP publications...
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