Here is the 10 minutes video that summarizes the key points of the Data Innovation for Policy Making conference held in Bali in November 2014. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6r811R_JlE&w=560&h=315]
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ROMA, the RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach, has been providing for several years ideas and suggestions to policy researchers for structuring a policy influence process which is based on the production, communication and uptake of research evidence. ROMA does not describe (or prescribe) an A to Z series of steps that will guarantee the policy influence of a policy research project. There are no
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Back in London my colleagues have just published a nice Storify about what we, at the Research and Policy in Development Programme (RAPID) at the Overseas Development Institute, have been doing, saying, and writing in 2014. A nice way to end the year looking back at the good work we did all together in various parts of the world. //storify.com/rapid_odi/rapid-2014/embed?header=false[View the story
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In 2004 the Overseas Development Institute organized a seminar in London to discuss the following question: Does Evidence Matter? One of the speakers was Vince Cable, at that time the shadow minister for trade and industry with the Lib Dem party. Cable spoke at that workshop about some of the gaps that separate the political and
Just published with my colleagues Endah Purnawati and Maesy Angelina a couple of Stories of Change on the use of knowledge and research evidence in policy decision-making. Pls follow the links. Working politically. A story of change on the contribution of research-evidence on the new Village Law in Indonesia On December 18th 2013, the Indonesian House
Check out the 10 most popular blogs for 2013 published by Research to Action. Visit this page: http://www.researchtoaction.org/2013/12/top-10-posts-from-2013/
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The Broker online just published a blog I have written to reflect, from the point of view of the influence that evidence can have on policy decisions, on the the debate in the British parliament about the involvement of British troops in airstrikes against Syria. Here is the link to the blog: The limits of evidence
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here\’s an excerpt: The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,400 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see
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