evidence

What are we talking when we talk about the demand and use of research evidence? Some thoughts after a trip to the city of Probolinggo in East Java.

I travelled a couple of weeks ago with colleagues from the Knowledge Sector Initiative (KSI) to the city of Probolinggo, in the eastern part of Java. To get there you have to fly from Jakarta to  Malang (ca. 1 hour and 15 minutes) and then drive for about two hours.  It is a nice car ride. There is traffic on the road […]

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Just published – A couple of Stories of Change on the use of knowledge and research evidence in policy making

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

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On the shore of a Finnish lake and the gap between researchers and policy makers

Finland is a country of lakes. There are 187,888 of them but the exhibition (On the Shore of the Lake Tuusula Artist Community) I visited with my daughter during the holidays at the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki was about one of them: Lake Tuusula. Why Lake Tuusula? Because at Lake Tuusula, which is 40km

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Holland’s Total Football and Pixar: what can they tell us about team work?

Published in ODI\’s internal Blog Holland’s Total Football and Pixar: what can they tell us about team work? So, Holland lost yet another World Cup final at Soccer City in Johannesburg. Their third final, 32 years after the loss against Argentina when Mario Kempes scored two unforgettable goals to defeat Holland 3-1. In South Africa

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Just published – Taking Research into Account

Taking Research into Account by Arnaldo Pellini and John Young (ODI) published by InWent in Development + Cooperation 12/2009. Available at D+C Taking research into account “Is international aid value for money?” This is a question many people around the world ask, especially as the budget deficits of some of the world’s largest donors are growing due to the global financial crisis.

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