#Policy

Supporting organizational change for evidence use at Ghana’s Environmental Protection Agency

Leandro Echt

Oct 11, 20185 min read

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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Context matters for organizational change—but how exactly?

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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A more interdisciplinary approach can help us understand why research evidence does or doesn’t make

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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Framework to get knowledge into policy. Dimension #1: Macro-context: structural factors that draw cl

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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Our need to talk about power & knowledge in evaluation & policy cultures

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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Communication off the map: three principles for policy influence in emerging democracies

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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Good communications is not enough to get evidence into policy

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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The need for expertise: how Civil Society Organisations engage with the Regulatory State

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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Partisan think tanks: a double-edged sword

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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What is behind the idea of Evidence Based Policy?

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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Research and policy Global Development Network Topic Guide

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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Young voices, big impact, promising future

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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Leaps of faith: the successful policy without evidence

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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Reading recommendations: research and policy overview

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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