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New AusAID research strategy 2012016 is now online

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The new research strategy of AusAID for the period 2012-16 is now online. AusAID funds research to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development. Good research leads to greater development effectiveness and AusAID has been a strong supporter of practical, policy-relevant social science research into development challenges. This strategy outlines AusAID\’s approach to delivering an effective […]

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Measuring policy influence: like measuring thin air?

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Last June I gave a presentation at AusAID in Canberra together with John Young, the head of the Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) programme at the Overseas Development Institute . The presentation, which has been well attended and was open to all staff of AusAID, focused on principles and tools for measuring policy influence

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Just published with the World Bank – Assessment of the delivery of the Vietnam development report 2010 : modern institutions and its impact on policy debates around institutional reforms in Vietnam – final report

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Download the report at the World Bank website: http://bit.ly/LNOJZ1 The Vietnam Development Reports (VDR) is a series of reports, which have been published by the World Bank resident mission since 2002, and focus on key development issues for Vietnam. The VDRs aim at tapping into existing knowledge, achieving an \’upstream harmonization\’ so that donors can engage with

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Just published with ODI – Assessing the policy influence of research: a case study of governance research in Viet Nam

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Download to the Backgrund Note at ODI: http://bit.ly/LNLHE0 As development processes become ever more complex, there is a growing demand for knowledge products that provide the necessary information to implement evidence-based policy change. However, the practice of monitoring the impact of knowledge products, often produced by international donors, is relatively new. This Background Note describes a case study of one attempt to

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Policy entrepreneurs’ skills with a little bit of help from Carl Jung

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The RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach, in short , is a strategic planning tool that ODI’ RAPID programme has suggested for some years as a way to increase the chances of research evidence and knowledge to influence policy and development practice. One of ROMA’s steps focuses on the assessment of the skills that are considered useful

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Just published – Social capital in Cambodia

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I just published this book written in collaboration with Cambodian colleagues at the Learning Institute in Phnom Penh. Here is the title and abstract. Engaging for the Environment. The Contribution of Social Capital to Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Cambodia Development is not a straight input-output-outcome-impact path, but is more random than that. In this

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