Advertisement
Check these out next
Contributing to evidence-based policy making
May. 5, 2011•0 likes•1,147 views
1 likes
Be the first to like this
Show More
views
Total views
0
On Slideshare
0
From embeds
0
Number of embeds
0
Download to read offline
Report
Technology
Presented by Ranjitha Puskur and Berhanu Adenew at the Nile Basin Development Challenge Science and Reflection Workshop, Addis Ababa, 4-6 May 2011.
ILRIFollow
-- at ILRIAdvertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Recommended
Acacia Research and Learning Forum Tutorial 2Acacia Research & Learning Forum 2009
Top Tips_ Research Communications: Communicating Research Outputs using MediaGDNet - Global Development Network, Cairo Office
Planning for impact: Basic communication strategiesODI_Webmaster
Beyond Scaling Up: Learning networksIDS
Six Degrees of Seperation: Using network theory to influence decision-makingInternational Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Working with complexity: Six steps to enhance researchODI_Webmaster
Contributing to evidence-based policy making
- Identify friends and foes.
- Prepare for policy opportunities.
- Look out for policy windows.
- Work with them – seek commissions
- Strategic opportunism – prepare for known events + resources for others
- Who are the policymakers?
- Is there demand for ideas?
- What is the policy process?
- Establish credibility
- Provide practical solutions
- Establish legitimacy.
- Present clear options
- Use familiar narratives.
- Build a reputation
- Action-research
- Pilot projects to generate legitimacy
- Good communication
- What is the current theory?
- What are the narratives?
- How divergent is it?
- Get to know the others
- Work through existing networks.
- Build coalitions.
- Build new policy networks.
- Build partnerships.
- Identify key networkers, mavens and salesmen.
- Use informal contacts
- Who are the stakeholders?
- What networks exist?
Editor's Notes
- Not a linear processA chaos of purposes and accidents
- Context: Demand & ContestationThe degree of demand and contestation matter greatly. Demand:Policymaker demand: (eg – initiating a review)Societal demand: (focus on problems)Contestation: Ideology / NarrativeVested Interests In virtually all cases: Policy uptake = demand – contestationEvidence can change the policy narrative(Need to think about how they can work to increase demand and reduce contestation.)
- Inspire and informone of the principal ways that practitioners, bureaucrats and policy-makers articulate and make sense of complex realities is through simplified stories or scenarios. powerful stories which help us to get over to policy-makers what the problem is and what the solution might be. Networkers – policy making happens within a small group of people ho know each other and interact – within the tent or outside the tent – Engineers – street level bureaucracy –implementation gap – work not just with policy makers, but also the implementers - being engaged on the ground and not just sitting in a laboratory. Researchers need to become practically involved in testing their ideas if they expect policy makers to heed their recommendations.Fixers – when to make your pitch and whom , based on a sound understanding of the policy processWe use them one or more at different timesNot either or – need all skills – can’t be adept at all – need a team with such skills
Advertisement