Leandro Echt
Supporting organizational change for evidence use at Ghana’s Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Ghana has been working with Politics & Ideas and INASP to apply the Context Matters...
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Emily Hayter, Vanesa Weyrauch, Leandro Echt
Oct 11, 20185 min read
Context matters for organizational change—but how exactly?
Emily Hayter, Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt reflect on working with agencies in Peru and Ghana to help understand how they use...
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Fiona Blyth and Carmen Huckel
Jul 13, 20173 min read
A more interdisciplinary approach can help us understand why research evidence does or doesn’t make
Researchers keen to see their findings impact on policy and practice are often told that better communication is the magic key to opening...
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Clara Richards
Jun 28, 20166 min read
Framework to get knowledge into policy. Dimension #1: Macro-context: structural factors that draw cl
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series focused on sharing findings from the conceptual framework developed under the study “Going...
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Clara Richards
Jul 21, 20154 min read
Our need to talk about power & knowledge in evaluation & policy cultures
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Paul R. Kelly, PhD Researcher in Impact, Evaluation & Service Design, Lancaster University,...
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Vanesa Weyrauch
Jul 16, 20154 min read
Going beyond “Context matters”
By Dave Winer under CC at flickr.com [Editor’s note: This post is part a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from...
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Clara Richards
Aug 19, 20143 min read
Communication off the map: three principles for policy influence in emerging democracies
[Editor’s note: This post originally appeared at Research to Action. It was written by Nicholas Benequista, a researcher with an interest...
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Clara Richards
Aug 7, 20141 min read
Writing a case study for policy
In 2014, P&I published the capacity building document Writing a case study for policy, by Anne Lan Candelaria. For many practitioners,...
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Clara Richards
May 29, 20144 min read
Good communications is not enough to get evidence into policy
[Editor’s Note: This post was written by Clara Richards, programme manager at INASP, and was originally published at INASP’s blog] I...
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Clara Richards
May 16, 20143 min read
The need for expertise: how Civil Society Organisations engage with the Regulatory State
This post is based on a commentary by Kathryn Hochstetler that assesses the ways in which members of civil society “often shadow and...
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Clara Richards
Feb 18, 20142 min read
Partisan think tanks: a double-edged sword
[Editor’s note: This is the third of a series of blogs by Claudio Jones on partisan think tanks. The first post can be read here, and...
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Clara Richards
Jan 6, 20144 min read
What do partisan think tanks seek?
Is the political role of partisan think tanks -in Latin America’s new democracies and elsewhere- equivalent to the standard concept of...
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Clara Richards
Dec 19, 20131 min read
Protocol for case study writing
[Editor’s note: This post introduces a new material produced by Anne Lan K. Candelaria for Politics & Ideas. This case study protocol...
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Clara Richards
Oct 10, 20134 min read
What is behind the idea of Evidence Based Policy?
In the previous post, I shared Jal Mehta’s framework that can help us take apart an idea into its different dimensions (I suggest you...
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Clara Richards
Aug 7, 20132 min read
Research and policy Global Development Network Topic Guide
In 2013 P&I, jointly with CIPPEC and Mendizabal Limited on behalf of GDNet, published Research and policy Global Development Network...
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Clara Richards
May 31, 20133 min read
Young voices, big impact, promising future
Engaging youth in research is considered a useful source of knowledge on development challenges since they usually provide fresh...
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Clara Richards
May 29, 20133 min read
Leaps of faith: the successful policy without evidence
Finnish schools are among the best in the world, but did not know, and apparently did not want to know it. Ironically, Finns found out...
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Leandro Echt
Mar 8, 20133 min read
Reading recommendations: research and policy overview
Are you interested in learning more about the relationship between research and policy? The following studies, also found in the Topic...
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