IFPRI Policy Seminar "Evidence-Based Policymaking"

Evidence-Based Policymaking: Challenges, Methods, and Innovations in Assessing Policy Influence
John Hoddinott

Insights from Development:The creation of sustainable agency
Agency: The capability of an individual or organization or government to take action
Capability is expanded through: resources; the provision of knowledge and the relaxation of constraints and/or the creation of opportunities
Policy Influence
Sustainability: The capacity to endure
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A tale of two policy process influences
IFPRI and export quotas in Vietnam
IFPRI and ‘graduation’ from the Productive Safety Nets Programme, Ethiopia
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Policy Processes and New Technology Adoption: Parallels
The provision of resources, knowledge, and the relaxation of constraints are core characteristics of technology adoption
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Assessing Policy Influence: Implications (1)
Assessing policy influence should be done across all stages of the policy process, not just policy implementation .
Arguably, policy implementation is the least important stage over which influence should be assessed
Seeing the analogy between policy processes and technology adoption opens up the set of actions over which policy engagement occurs and thus be assessed:
What outcomes do relevant actors seek to achieve
How are the inputs into these outcomes, and the outcomes themselves, measured
Understanding information flows; roles of networks and biases
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Assessing Policy Influence: Implications (2)
Different stages of the policy process are amenable to a variety of qual-quant assessment/evaluation techniques.
For example:
In decentralized settings (think federal political structures such as those found in Ethiopia and India) policy influence in agenda setting and formulation can be assessed through quantitative randomized encouragement designs
Influence on implementation can be assessed through focus groups, key informant interviews etc
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IFPRI Policy Seminar "Evidence-Based Policymaking"

by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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