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Policy frustration: Evidence in action in the Philippines

What role does evidence play in policy-making processes here in the Philippines?’ ‘What are the tensions between research and policy processes?’ ‘How does research inform the implementation of policy guidelines and regulations?’ I am reviewing these questions in my notepad while sitting in the waiting room of the President of Silliman University in Dumaguete, Philippines. Read the

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The RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach and project management for policy change

The RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach and project management for policy change Article – ODI Opinions 153, August 2011 Authors: Arnaldo Pellini Ramalingam et al. (2008), describe development plans, strategies and goal setting as ‘attempts to picture how things work in that country and provide an illusion of control’. The reality, however, is that development is not

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