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The struggle of bringing research into climate change policy

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I read a vey interesting article in the Guardian Weekly about the struggle of science research in the United States following the election of Donald Trump as president (The climate change battle dividing trump’s America). Funding for climate change research is being cut. A climate change sceptic has been appointed as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.  A […]

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Here is what we learned about learning about PDIA (Part II)

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Written by Arnaldo Pellini, Endah Purnawati, and Siti Ruhanawati During the last couple of months we have gone through the six modules of the online PDIA course developed by Matt Andrews et al. We want to share here what we have learned about learning about Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA). You can find Part I blog with

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On demand and use of evidence in policy making: very interesting experiences from South Africa

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I just want to share three very interesting papers on demand and use of evidence processes and systems written in collaboration by colleagues of the RAPID team in ODI and government officials. Understanding the organisational context for evidence-informed policy-making Louise Shaxson, Ajoy Datta, Mapula Tshangela and Bongani Matomela November 2016 Efforts to improve the use of evidence in

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What does data innovation mean for traditional social science research?

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Pulse Lab Jakarta posted today on Medium a blog I have written with Andrew Thornley about the implication for social science research of data innovation. Hope you enjoy reading it. Data innovation and data analytics offer an unprecedented opportunity for expanding the sources of evidence that can inform policy-making. But is data innovation threatening traditional

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Tolkien\’s words from the past are still today\’s words.

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In the evenings I am reading few pages of J.R.R. Tokien\’s Lord of the Rings to my daughters. We are into Book  I: The Fellowship of the Ring. Frodo and his friends have just arrived at the village of Bree and are spending the night at the Prancing Pony. Tonight they have joined other travellers in the pub to hear their stories.

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The elusive search for a knowledge to policy framework

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Last week I published a blog on Research2Action where I discuss whether a Knowledge-to-Policy framework to better inform  policies actually exists. \’Knowledge to policy (K2P) is a popular term to describe the way research and other types of knowledge inform policy-making. K2P processes and systems aim to support decision-makers to create good policies that make

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Policy researchers have to be out there

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The Knowledge Sector Initiative in Indonesia we have started a Knowledge Sector Interview series. Through this series the Knowledge Sector Initiative is meeting policy makers, policy researchers, intellectuals, and development practitioners to ask them about their perspectives and personal experiences with knowledge-to-policy processes and evidence-informed policy-making in Indonesia. Interviews will be published monthly. The first interview with

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Australia\’s Productivity Commission some interesting insights for Indonesia

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The Productivity Commission is one of Australia’s most prolific and influential government advisory bodies, providing evidence-based policy advice on a wide spectrum of social and economic issues aimed at raising living standards across society. The paper aims to show how the Commission has become such a prominent actor in Australian policy making, highlighting its origins

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