The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Ghana has been working with Politics & Ideas and INASP to apply the Context Matters...

Emily Hayter, Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt reflect on working with agencies in Peru and Ghana to help understand how they use...

Researchers keen to see their findings impact on policy and practice are often told that better communication is the magic key to opening...

[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series focused on sharing findings from the conceptual framework developed under the study “Going...

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Paul R. Kelly, PhD Researcher in Impact, Evaluation & Service Design, Lancaster University,...

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...

[Editor’s note: This post originally appeared at Research to Action. It was written by Nicholas Benequista, a researcher with an interest...

In 2014, P&I published the capacity building document Writing a case study for policy, by Anne Lan Candelaria. For many practitioners,...

[Editor’s Note: This post was written by Clara Richards, programme manager at INASP, and was originally published at INASP’s blog] I...

This post is based on a commentary by Kathryn Hochstetler that assesses the ways in which members of civil society “often shadow and...

[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...

Is the political role of partisan think tanks -in Latin America’s new democracies and elsewhere- equivalent to the standard concept of...

[Editor’s note: This post introduces a new material produced by Anne Lan K. Candelaria for Politics & Ideas. This case study protocol...

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...

In 2013 P&I, jointly with CIPPEC and Mendizabal Limited on behalf of GDNet, published Research and policy Global Development Network...

Engaging youth in research is considered a useful source of knowledge on development challenges since they usually provide fresh...

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...

Are you interested in learning more about the relationship between research and policy? The following studies, also found in the Topic...