Presentation by James Reed, Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia & University of Lancaster. Held at the young researchers meeting on multifunctional landscapes, Gothenburg June 7-8, 2016.
'Learning from disaster' study launch presentationALNAP
This presentation outlines the main findings of 'Learning from disaster'. This ALNAP study explores how national disaster management authorities and other state actors learn and improve their humanitarian response activities with a view to identifying current practice, challenges that impeded learning and improvement and ways in which collaboration with others has assisted in overcoming these.
Capacity building on ‘ecohealth’ in Southeast Asia – successes and challengesILRI
To address current challenges related to disease emergences in livestock and humans, new integrated approaches are needed to promote collaboration between involved actors and groups towards more effective control. Southeast Asia is considered a hotspot for diseases emergence as demonstrated with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Such new approaches include the ‘ecohealth’ (EH) concept, an approach pioneered over the last decades by the International Development Research Centre, Canada (IDRC).
This document describes a grant program in the Netherlands called "More Knowledge with Fewer Animals" that funds research projects aiming to replace, reduce or refine the use of animals in experiments. It has three main modules: 1) Developing animal-free research techniques through projects studying diseases like cancer using multi-disciplinary collaborations. 2) Encouraging publication of negative results from animal studies and use of reporting guidelines. 3) Conducting systematic reviews of animal experiments to identify knowledge gaps and assess proposed research. The program emphasizes open access publication of results and implementing findings to maximize knowledge gained from fewer animals.
Measuring adaptation progress is complex due to the diversity of contexts and ecosystems. While there are no universal indicators, general principles for measuring effectiveness include considering both human and ecosystem outcomes, maintaining biodiversity and connectivity, ensuring diverse and flexible options, access to information and learning, financial viability, and policy support. Qualitative and quantitative measures from cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary efforts can build on existing systems to determine appropriate indicators and monitor adaptation progress over time through participatory processes.
The document discusses facilitating conditions, barriers, mistakes to avoid, and resources for coordinating and managing the growth of international social work in four areas: teaching, research, field work education, and policies and advocacy. Some key facilitating conditions mentioned are collaboration between institutions, support from leadership, and identifying common research themes. Barriers include unequal resources, imposition of curriculum without consideration of local needs, and heavy teaching loads discouraging research. Mistakes to avoid include using students to experiment with curriculum and not discussing key terms to prevent misinterpretations. Resources include funding opportunities, partnerships between libraries, and student and faculty exchanges.
A presentation to the Health Psychology in Public Health Network annual on practical, policy and research challenges in applying research to public health practice
Supporting the use of evidence by policy makers in LMIC: the evidence-informe...cmaverga
The document discusses efforts to strengthen the use of research evidence in health policymaking in low and middle income countries. It outlines challenges in linking research to policy, including research not being valued, relevant, or easy to use by policymakers. It then describes Evidence-Informed Policy Networks (EVIPNet) supported by WHO to address these challenges. EVIPNet supports multi-faceted partnerships in various regions/countries to improve the uptake of research in policy. Progress and activities of EVIPNet partnerships in different areas are then outlined.
'Learning from disaster' study launch presentationALNAP
This presentation outlines the main findings of 'Learning from disaster'. This ALNAP study explores how national disaster management authorities and other state actors learn and improve their humanitarian response activities with a view to identifying current practice, challenges that impeded learning and improvement and ways in which collaboration with others has assisted in overcoming these.
Capacity building on ‘ecohealth’ in Southeast Asia – successes and challengesILRI
To address current challenges related to disease emergences in livestock and humans, new integrated approaches are needed to promote collaboration between involved actors and groups towards more effective control. Southeast Asia is considered a hotspot for diseases emergence as demonstrated with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Such new approaches include the ‘ecohealth’ (EH) concept, an approach pioneered over the last decades by the International Development Research Centre, Canada (IDRC).
This document describes a grant program in the Netherlands called "More Knowledge with Fewer Animals" that funds research projects aiming to replace, reduce or refine the use of animals in experiments. It has three main modules: 1) Developing animal-free research techniques through projects studying diseases like cancer using multi-disciplinary collaborations. 2) Encouraging publication of negative results from animal studies and use of reporting guidelines. 3) Conducting systematic reviews of animal experiments to identify knowledge gaps and assess proposed research. The program emphasizes open access publication of results and implementing findings to maximize knowledge gained from fewer animals.
Measuring adaptation progress is complex due to the diversity of contexts and ecosystems. While there are no universal indicators, general principles for measuring effectiveness include considering both human and ecosystem outcomes, maintaining biodiversity and connectivity, ensuring diverse and flexible options, access to information and learning, financial viability, and policy support. Qualitative and quantitative measures from cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary efforts can build on existing systems to determine appropriate indicators and monitor adaptation progress over time through participatory processes.
The document discusses facilitating conditions, barriers, mistakes to avoid, and resources for coordinating and managing the growth of international social work in four areas: teaching, research, field work education, and policies and advocacy. Some key facilitating conditions mentioned are collaboration between institutions, support from leadership, and identifying common research themes. Barriers include unequal resources, imposition of curriculum without consideration of local needs, and heavy teaching loads discouraging research. Mistakes to avoid include using students to experiment with curriculum and not discussing key terms to prevent misinterpretations. Resources include funding opportunities, partnerships between libraries, and student and faculty exchanges.
A presentation to the Health Psychology in Public Health Network annual on practical, policy and research challenges in applying research to public health practice
Supporting the use of evidence by policy makers in LMIC: the evidence-informe...cmaverga
The document discusses efforts to strengthen the use of research evidence in health policymaking in low and middle income countries. It outlines challenges in linking research to policy, including research not being valued, relevant, or easy to use by policymakers. It then describes Evidence-Informed Policy Networks (EVIPNet) supported by WHO to address these challenges. EVIPNet supports multi-faceted partnerships in various regions/countries to improve the uptake of research in policy. Progress and activities of EVIPNet partnerships in different areas are then outlined.
This document discusses rare disease treatment and international collaborations. It identifies key players in rare disease including health economists, academic researchers, industry, regulators, payers, patients, and policy makers. It outlines several international consortiums working on rare disease research and treatment access, including IRDiC, Adapt-Smart, and EUPATI. The benefits of international collaboration are bringing all players to the table to work towards common understanding and sustainable solutions. It could also provide a single integrated message about Canada's scientific expertise and a potential roadmap for other countries.
EcoHealth capacity building and applied research: Challenges and lessons lear...ILRI
The document discusses challenges and lessons learned from the ILRI EcoZD project, which built EcoHealth capacity and applied research in Southeast Asia focused on zoonotic emerging infectious diseases. It provides an overview of EcoHealth principles and pillars, describes the EcoZD project approach and case studies, and discusses startup challenges, qualitative research challenges, and how the EcoHealth approach added value to case studies like optimizing rabies control in Bali through multidisciplinary research.
The document presents a conceptual framework for delivering improvements in healthcare developed by the NIHR CLAHRC for Northwest London. It identifies 12 objectives across 3 perspectives that must be considered: what improvements should be made, where and who is involved in improvements, and how improvements should take place. It emphasizes understanding existing knowledge, producing new knowledge through research, and iterative development through active engagement and understanding variation. The framework recognizes the complexity of healthcare systems and the need for transdisciplinary work and multiple perspectives. It provides implications for moving the research agenda to understanding how improvements work in practice and the necessity of its counter-cultural approach.
Open Educational Resources in Australia: Across Sector Environmental Scan Mark Brown
This document outlines an environmental scan project on Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Australia. The project aims to analyze current OER policies and resources, survey the higher education sector to understand OER use, and incorporate feedback to inform future OER policies and practices. The project will also develop a feasibility protocol and opportunities for involvement include providing input at a symposium in September 2012.
This document summarizes the process of piloting the WILLOW intervention program for HIV-positive women in Ontario. It discusses how the Women's Health in Women's Hands organization selected the WILLOW program after reviewing several effective interventions. They then worked with the Ontario HIV Treatment Network to support training facilitators for the WILLOW program in Toronto. Some lessons learned from the process included that the intervention was too prescriptive, did not address all cultural issues relevant to the Canadian context, and underestimated the skill level required for facilitators. The next steps will be to pilot the intervention, evaluate it, adapt it as needed, and then scale it up more broadly.
Participatory agricultural research in CGIAR: Challenges and opportunities ILRI
Presented by Beth Cullen and Katherine Snyder at the Expert meeting on participatory agricultural research: Approaches, design and evaluation, Oxford, 9-13 December 2013
The document discusses the results of a survey given to Drexel graduate students from various health-related programs regarding collaboration in the US healthcare system. Most respondents agreed that collaboration is needed to address issues like rising costs. The Roundtable on American Health Delivery was created as an interdisciplinary group for these students to discuss healthcare topics and work on collaborative projects. The goal is to help overcome silos between professions and develop future leaders who can improve the complex healthcare system.
The document discusses knowledge mobilization and moving beyond just dissemination to achieve impact. It provides examples of different types of impact, including reach through analytics and downloads, and change through narratives. Knowledge mobilization helps make research useful to society by supporting engaged scholarship from inception to impact. Impact can be achieved through various activities like dissemination, uptake and implementation of research. Engagement and co-production with stakeholders is important for impact. The document provides examples of knowledge mobilization methods and an engaged dissemination case study, and discusses the role of scholarly publishing in supporting the research impact agenda.
Promoting uptake: interventions aimed at encouraging greater engagement with and use of research based information.
Presentation by Jonathan Carter HSRC (South Africa) at the Locating the Power of the In-Between conference July 08
Flood risk governance: a shared responsibilityOECD Governance
This document outlines a rationale for developing guidance on applying the OECD Principles on Water Governance to flood risk governance. It proposes a methodology using a checklist to assess governance arrangements across the five stages of flood risk management. The checklist will be used to collect case studies from different scales to provide examples and identify good practices. Peer reviewers and experts will provide feedback on the robustness of the methodology and checklist before case studies are collected in September and a working paper is developed in November. The goal is to apply the water governance principles to other sub-sectors like droughts and groundwater.
Potential benefits of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in healthcare include:
1) Leveraging cross-disciplinary expertise from multiple partners to solve complex health problems and maximize resources while sharing risks.
2) Advancing therapeutic areas like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer through new treatments that improve outcomes, survival rates, and disease management.
3) Addressing unmet needs in rare diseases and furthering pharmaceutical innovation to continue improving public health and life expectancy.
4) Overcoming hurdles in drug research and development like disease heterogeneity and lack of predictive biomarkers through collaborative efforts.
Mapping & Curation in OER Impact Research #altcRobert Farrow
Presentation from ALT-C conference, 2014 on the value of mapping and curation as an approach to impact research. The presentation includes some discussion of results from OER Research Hub.
Assessing the Dutch Flood Risk and Delta programmesOECD Governance
The document summarizes an assessment of the Dutch Flood Risk Protection Programme (HWBP) according to the OECD Water Governance Principles. It conducted a survey, focus groups, and interviews to assess how well the program adheres to the principles. It found that the principles provide a useful framework but require translation to the program context. A key insight was that responsibility sharing and innovative governance need clarification. The assessment identified challenges in capacity and complex new regulations but also opportunities to experiment. It provided lessons on applying the principles and limitations due to the program being in early stages. The findings will be discussed at a learning table to improve water governance.
This document outlines a roadmap to identify knowledge gaps, research needs, and strategic opportunities in environment and health research for Ireland. It discusses establishing collaboration between the EPA and HSE to conduct horizon scanning of drivers and stakeholder engagement. One key issue identified is aligning national data collection and analysis to facilitate data sharing between agencies. The knowledge gap around this issue is developing systems for interoperable data sharing while addressing privacy concerns. The roadmap recommends pilot projects, reviewing current data inventory and standards, considering international models, and establishing a steering group to implement the roadmap in stages.
Keynote speech by Mark Dickey-Collas at ICES symposium "Marine Ecosystem Acoustics - Observing the ocean interior across scales in support of integrated management", 28 May 2015, Nantes, France
The UK Research Councils will deliver through the GCRF £1.5b in research grants for international development research over the next five years. This funding is new and additional to existing sources of research support like DFID, the Newton Fund, etc., which will continue. The GCRF represents the largest single boost to research council funding in their history and will create an entirely new stream of development research funding across arts, humanities, social and natural sciences, with particular opportunities for interdisciplinary research.
EDUC 804: Group 5 Presentation with NarrationScottieCee
1. The document discusses emerging trends in evaluation based on a conversation with Michael Quinn Patton, including a focus on utilization, team approaches, mixed methodologies, and adapting to different cultures.
2. Patton emphasizes utilizing evaluations by defining users and goals, gathering ongoing feedback, and ensuring evaluations are applicable and adaptable.
3. Key implications for education include team building, increasing staff involvement, using data to inform continuous improvement, and ensuring accountability.
Potential of Agrophotovoltaic systems to reduce land use competition between ...SIANI
Presentation by Daniel Ketzer ITAS/KIT/Stockholm University - at the young researchers meeting on multifunctional landscapes, Gothenburg June 7-8, 2016.
This document discusses rare disease treatment and international collaborations. It identifies key players in rare disease including health economists, academic researchers, industry, regulators, payers, patients, and policy makers. It outlines several international consortiums working on rare disease research and treatment access, including IRDiC, Adapt-Smart, and EUPATI. The benefits of international collaboration are bringing all players to the table to work towards common understanding and sustainable solutions. It could also provide a single integrated message about Canada's scientific expertise and a potential roadmap for other countries.
EcoHealth capacity building and applied research: Challenges and lessons lear...ILRI
The document discusses challenges and lessons learned from the ILRI EcoZD project, which built EcoHealth capacity and applied research in Southeast Asia focused on zoonotic emerging infectious diseases. It provides an overview of EcoHealth principles and pillars, describes the EcoZD project approach and case studies, and discusses startup challenges, qualitative research challenges, and how the EcoHealth approach added value to case studies like optimizing rabies control in Bali through multidisciplinary research.
The document presents a conceptual framework for delivering improvements in healthcare developed by the NIHR CLAHRC for Northwest London. It identifies 12 objectives across 3 perspectives that must be considered: what improvements should be made, where and who is involved in improvements, and how improvements should take place. It emphasizes understanding existing knowledge, producing new knowledge through research, and iterative development through active engagement and understanding variation. The framework recognizes the complexity of healthcare systems and the need for transdisciplinary work and multiple perspectives. It provides implications for moving the research agenda to understanding how improvements work in practice and the necessity of its counter-cultural approach.
Open Educational Resources in Australia: Across Sector Environmental Scan Mark Brown
This document outlines an environmental scan project on Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Australia. The project aims to analyze current OER policies and resources, survey the higher education sector to understand OER use, and incorporate feedback to inform future OER policies and practices. The project will also develop a feasibility protocol and opportunities for involvement include providing input at a symposium in September 2012.
This document summarizes the process of piloting the WILLOW intervention program for HIV-positive women in Ontario. It discusses how the Women's Health in Women's Hands organization selected the WILLOW program after reviewing several effective interventions. They then worked with the Ontario HIV Treatment Network to support training facilitators for the WILLOW program in Toronto. Some lessons learned from the process included that the intervention was too prescriptive, did not address all cultural issues relevant to the Canadian context, and underestimated the skill level required for facilitators. The next steps will be to pilot the intervention, evaluate it, adapt it as needed, and then scale it up more broadly.
Participatory agricultural research in CGIAR: Challenges and opportunities ILRI
Presented by Beth Cullen and Katherine Snyder at the Expert meeting on participatory agricultural research: Approaches, design and evaluation, Oxford, 9-13 December 2013
The document discusses the results of a survey given to Drexel graduate students from various health-related programs regarding collaboration in the US healthcare system. Most respondents agreed that collaboration is needed to address issues like rising costs. The Roundtable on American Health Delivery was created as an interdisciplinary group for these students to discuss healthcare topics and work on collaborative projects. The goal is to help overcome silos between professions and develop future leaders who can improve the complex healthcare system.
The document discusses knowledge mobilization and moving beyond just dissemination to achieve impact. It provides examples of different types of impact, including reach through analytics and downloads, and change through narratives. Knowledge mobilization helps make research useful to society by supporting engaged scholarship from inception to impact. Impact can be achieved through various activities like dissemination, uptake and implementation of research. Engagement and co-production with stakeholders is important for impact. The document provides examples of knowledge mobilization methods and an engaged dissemination case study, and discusses the role of scholarly publishing in supporting the research impact agenda.
Promoting uptake: interventions aimed at encouraging greater engagement with and use of research based information.
Presentation by Jonathan Carter HSRC (South Africa) at the Locating the Power of the In-Between conference July 08
Flood risk governance: a shared responsibilityOECD Governance
This document outlines a rationale for developing guidance on applying the OECD Principles on Water Governance to flood risk governance. It proposes a methodology using a checklist to assess governance arrangements across the five stages of flood risk management. The checklist will be used to collect case studies from different scales to provide examples and identify good practices. Peer reviewers and experts will provide feedback on the robustness of the methodology and checklist before case studies are collected in September and a working paper is developed in November. The goal is to apply the water governance principles to other sub-sectors like droughts and groundwater.
Potential benefits of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in healthcare include:
1) Leveraging cross-disciplinary expertise from multiple partners to solve complex health problems and maximize resources while sharing risks.
2) Advancing therapeutic areas like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer through new treatments that improve outcomes, survival rates, and disease management.
3) Addressing unmet needs in rare diseases and furthering pharmaceutical innovation to continue improving public health and life expectancy.
4) Overcoming hurdles in drug research and development like disease heterogeneity and lack of predictive biomarkers through collaborative efforts.
Mapping & Curation in OER Impact Research #altcRobert Farrow
Presentation from ALT-C conference, 2014 on the value of mapping and curation as an approach to impact research. The presentation includes some discussion of results from OER Research Hub.
Assessing the Dutch Flood Risk and Delta programmesOECD Governance
The document summarizes an assessment of the Dutch Flood Risk Protection Programme (HWBP) according to the OECD Water Governance Principles. It conducted a survey, focus groups, and interviews to assess how well the program adheres to the principles. It found that the principles provide a useful framework but require translation to the program context. A key insight was that responsibility sharing and innovative governance need clarification. The assessment identified challenges in capacity and complex new regulations but also opportunities to experiment. It provided lessons on applying the principles and limitations due to the program being in early stages. The findings will be discussed at a learning table to improve water governance.
This document outlines a roadmap to identify knowledge gaps, research needs, and strategic opportunities in environment and health research for Ireland. It discusses establishing collaboration between the EPA and HSE to conduct horizon scanning of drivers and stakeholder engagement. One key issue identified is aligning national data collection and analysis to facilitate data sharing between agencies. The knowledge gap around this issue is developing systems for interoperable data sharing while addressing privacy concerns. The roadmap recommends pilot projects, reviewing current data inventory and standards, considering international models, and establishing a steering group to implement the roadmap in stages.
Keynote speech by Mark Dickey-Collas at ICES symposium "Marine Ecosystem Acoustics - Observing the ocean interior across scales in support of integrated management", 28 May 2015, Nantes, France
The UK Research Councils will deliver through the GCRF £1.5b in research grants for international development research over the next five years. This funding is new and additional to existing sources of research support like DFID, the Newton Fund, etc., which will continue. The GCRF represents the largest single boost to research council funding in their history and will create an entirely new stream of development research funding across arts, humanities, social and natural sciences, with particular opportunities for interdisciplinary research.
EDUC 804: Group 5 Presentation with NarrationScottieCee
1. The document discusses emerging trends in evaluation based on a conversation with Michael Quinn Patton, including a focus on utilization, team approaches, mixed methodologies, and adapting to different cultures.
2. Patton emphasizes utilizing evaluations by defining users and goals, gathering ongoing feedback, and ensuring evaluations are applicable and adaptable.
3. Key implications for education include team building, increasing staff involvement, using data to inform continuous improvement, and ensuring accountability.
Potential of Agrophotovoltaic systems to reduce land use competition between ...SIANI
Presentation by Daniel Ketzer ITAS/KIT/Stockholm University - at the young researchers meeting on multifunctional landscapes, Gothenburg June 7-8, 2016.
Ecosystem service assessment in European silvopastoral systemsSIANI
Presentation by Mario Torralba, PhD student, University of Copenhagen - at the young researchers meeting on multifunctional landscapes, Gothenburg June 7-8, 2016.
Success factors and Challenges to enhancing rural community resilience to dro...SIANI
Presentation by Lazare Nzeyimana, PhD Candidate Linköping University/SWECO. Held at the young researchers meeting on multifunctional landscapes, Gothenburg June 7-8, 2016.
Tikopia: A climate smart, sustainable and multifunctional islandSIANI
Presentation by Thilde Bech Bruun, University of Copenhagen - at the young researchers meeting on multifunctional landscapes, Gothenburg June 7-8, 2016.
An Ecological–Economic Analysis of Climate Mitigation through Rewetting Previ...SIANI
By Åsa Kasimir, Jessica Coria, Hongxing He, Xiangping Liu, Anna Nordén and Magnus Svensson, at the young researchers meeting on multifunctional landscapes, Gothenburg June 7-8, 2016.
Mapping tenure security across urban slums and informal settlements in Addis ...SIANI
Presentation by Elizabeth Dessie, PhD student - Unit for Human Geography, University of Gothenburg. At the young researchers meeting on multifunctional landscapes, Gothenburg June 7-8, 2016.
Can a protein production index optimize land use?SIANI
Presented by Anna Woodhouse MSc, PhD - SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, at the: Young researchers meeting on multifunctional landscapes, Gothenburg June 7-8, 2016.
Design and Sustainability Assessment of Bioenergy Double Cropping System in S...SIANI
Presentation by Sbatie Lama Swedish, University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), at the young researchers meeting on multifunctional landscapes, Gothenburg June 7-8, 2016.
Perceived multifunctionality of agroforestry trees in smallholder farming sys...SIANI
Presentation by Johannes Ernstberger, MSc student in Agroecology (SLU) at the young researchers meeting on multifunctional landscapes, Gothenburg June 7-8, 2016.
Governing landscapes towards multifunctionality – Contradictions, Tensions & ...SIANI
This document discusses multifunctional landscapes and their governance. It addresses tensions between viewing multifunctionality as overlapping existing landscape qualities or a new paradigm. It also discusses scaling issues and potential synergies or conflicts between landscape functions. The document outlines three research implications: inventorying landscape functions and demands, analyzing interrelations and conflicts between functions, and addressing decision-making processes to achieve consensus on land use combinations. It proposes that polycentric governance and institutional bricolage may provide theoretical contributions. The document then shifts to discussing a case study on the institutional dynamics of land tenure change in West Pokot, Kenya.
Land-use transitions and agroforestry in upland MyanmarSIANI
Presentation by Laura Kmoch, Chalmers University of Technology, at the young researchers meeting on multifunctional landscapes, Gothenburg June 7-8, 2016.
Can conservation agriculture save tropical forests? The case of minimum till...SIANI
Presentation by Hambulo Ngoma, CIFOR/Norwegian
University of Life Sciences. Held at the young researchers meeting on multifunctional landscapes, Gothenburg June 7-8, 2016.
A rose by any other name? Evaluating integrated landscape approaches in the t...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by James Reed, Josh van Vianen, Jos Barlow, Terry Sunderland, CIFOR, at the Global Landscapes Forum on 16 November 2016 in Marrakesh, Morocco.
What are integrated landscape approaches and how effectively have they been i...CIFOR-ICRAF
This document summarizes a systematic review of integrated landscape approaches in the tropics. It finds that while integrated landscape approaches aim to concurrently address conservation and development, there is still confusion over definitions and implementation. The review screened over 400 documents and identified 82 case studies for analysis. Preliminary results found case studies mainly focused on livelihoods, water, and forests, and had mixed success, with challenges including short-term funding, lack of integration, and weak governance. The review seeks to provide clarity on integrated landscape approaches but finds further work is needed to develop shared understandings and monitoring.
This document discusses challenges in linking research to policymaking and efforts to address this "know-do gap." It describes participatory action research (PAR) as an approach that can help bridge this gap by involving stakeholders like policymakers, citizens, and researchers in jointly understanding problems and designing potential solutions through collaborative and iterative research, action, and reflection. The document suggests that PAR could help policymakers by providing a starting point for deliberations on challenges they face.
This document discusses research on scaling up agricultural innovations. It argues that scaling up is a complex process involving many mechanisms and effects beyond just increasing the scope or coverage of a given innovation. The document presents conceptual frameworks to help understand scaling processes across different levels and dimensions. It also discusses interpretive frameworks to analyze factors that support or hinder scaling up. The research aims to integrate scaling perspectives into agricultural systems research from the beginning to better account for how innovations may change when spreading more widely. The document highlights a case study on scaling up "green rubber" cultivation in China to demonstrate these analytical approaches.
Landscape Approaches to reconcile competing land usesSIANI
This document discusses landscape approaches to reconcile competing land uses. It provides an overview of the development of landscape approaches and frameworks. A systematic review was conducted of case studies implementing landscape approaches in the tropics. The review found most studies had positive outcomes but lacked long-term monitoring. Barriers to effective implementation include lack of capacity, weak institutions, short-term funding, and institutional silos. Overcoming these barriers requires coordinated efforts, more evidence of effectiveness, long-term goals, stakeholder engagement, and tools for monitoring and evaluation.
Mapping the forward agenda/ working together - Simon Buckle, OECDOECD Governance
This presentation was made by Simon Buckle, Environment Directorate, OECD, at the 1st Workshop on Green Budgeting held at the OECD, Paris, on 20 June 2018.
Mapping the forward agenda/working together - Simon Buckle, OECDOECD Governance
This presentation was made by Simon Buckle, OECD, at the Paris Collaborative on Green Budgeting Experts Workshop held at the OECD, Paris, on 20 June 2018
This document discusses research uptake strategies presented by Farah Ahmed at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It defines research uptake as the effective use of research evidence by decision-makers to improve policy and development outcomes. An effective uptake strategy involves stakeholder engagement, capacity building, communications, and monitoring and evaluation. It should have clear objectives, identify target audiences, and determine how to communicate research findings. The document provides examples of uptake approaches like partnerships, stakeholder mapping, and developing communication products tailored to specific audiences. It also discusses barriers to uptake like institutional policies and leadership, and questions to consider around stakeholder engagement, capacity building, communications planning, and monitoring impact.
Open education and social justice in the global south opportunities seized, m...ROER4D
This document discusses a study on open education and social justice in the global south. It summarizes the findings that while university lecturers frequently use open educational resources (OER), they are less likely to create or adapt OER due to lack of awareness, localizing challenges, and intellectual property restrictions. It argues that for OER to promote social justice, efforts are needed for proper localization, critical remixing, and transforming intellectual property policies to increase representation.
Supporting mutual learning around impact pathways and research to policy proc...The Impact Initiative
This document discusses supporting mutual learning around impact pathways and research to policy processes. It identifies several key barriers to impact, including engaging with non-academic audiences, building mutual learning, developing networks and relationships, and addressing incentives. It outlines lessons learned, such as planning engagement from the start, partnering with non-academic actors, and focusing events on relationship building. The document proposes that the Impact Lab can help by co-producing learning guides on effective engagement approaches and sharing case studies of impact strategies and lessons learned from research teams.
Governance in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: a pan Eu...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
This document discusses governance issues related to climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Europe. It reviews how CCA and DRR have traditionally been addressed separately through mitigation/response rather than jointly through preparedness. The goals of the report are to explore governance challenges in both fields in Europe and identify opportunities for interaction between CCA and DRR. Key recommendations include developing more joint projects and programs, improving communication networks between researchers and policymakers, and strengthening national coordination across relevant ministries.
The document summarizes the results of the Open Research Agenda consultation exercise conducted in 2016. The consultation aimed to better understand research priorities in open education by gathering input from practitioners through an online survey and discussions at various conferences. Key findings included that the most important identified research areas were assessment, awareness/perceptions, and business models. Respondents represented various roles but most identified as educators. The results informed discussions at the Open Education 2016 conference on setting future research directions and identifying potential collaborations in open education research.
Slides presented at Open Education 2016. The Open Research Agenda is an international consultation exercise on research priorities in open education which combines online surveys and focus group interactions. This presentation summarises thematic analysis of the data set and indicates future directions for research in the field of open education.
The document discusses strategic environmental assessment (SEA) as a tool for assessing the environmental impacts of policies, plans, and programs. It provides examples of SEAs from India and other countries. The key points made in the document are:
1) SEA facilitates mainstreaming environmental and social considerations into key policy documents and helps assess cumulative effects of projects on sustainability.
2) SEA is a global tool that is being increasingly used and formalized in development practices to address landscape-level impacts.
3) SEA contributes to integrated policymaking, enhanced stakeholder participation, and consideration of issues like resource efficiency and disaster vulnerability in planning.
The document discusses opportunities for increased collaboration between research projects in Burkina Faso by co-locating activities. It notes that currently projects operate independently without coordination, leading to issues like duplicated efforts and research fatigue. It proposes establishing a coordination mechanism and shared database to better integrate projects spatially and thematically. A roadmap is outlined to improve coordination through analyses of projects, data sharing agreements, establishing monitoring systems, and regular partner meetings. The goal is to enhance impacts through a more holistic systems approach and efficient use of resources.
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The document outlines Nairobi City County's Food System Strategy, which aims to achieve food and nutrition security for residents through a sustainable urban food system. The strategy was developed between 2018-2022 with stakeholder input. It envisions affordable, accessible, nutritious food for all residents through increasing food production, stable supply/incomes, reducing losses, and consumer education. Field experiences highlighted collaborations around seed technologies, vegetable/livestock production, value addition, and a new food market information geoportal to improve access. Stakeholder engagement will be key to implementing the strategy.
Vi Agroforestry is a Swedish non-profit foundation established in 1983 that works with local organizations in East Africa to empower smallholder farmers through sustainable agriculture practices like agroforestry. Its mission is to fight poverty and climate change by building farmer families' resilience through land management practices that enhance biodiversity and climate change mitigation while improving lives socially and economically. It focuses on smallholder farmer families, especially women, youth, and children, and promotes agroforestry, integrated pest management, and other techniques to strengthen food systems and agricultural livelihoods in a sustainable and inclusive manner.
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A rose by any other name? Assessing landscape approach effectiveness in the tropics
1. A rose by any other name?
Assessing landscape approach
effectiveness in the tropics
James Reed, Josh van Vianen, Jos Barlow, Terry Sunderland
SIANI SLU - Young researchers meeting on multifunctional
landscapes. Gothenburg, June 7th 2016
4. Methods
Evolution of search terms and strategy:
• Internal/external consultation
• Two stakeholder workshops (Nairobi & Cape Tribulation)
• Extensive scoping exercise using Web of Science
• Developed inclusion/exclusion criteria for studies
• Protocol published. See: Reed et al. 2015: What are landscape
approaches and how effectively have they been implemented in the
tropics?
Specialist databases:
Scopus
CAB Direct
ISI Web of Knowledge
PubMed
Internet searches:
Google Scholar
Other:
Grey literature search
5. Screening results
Peer-reviewed literature Grey (or additional)
literature
Initial scoping results in WoK:
26,303 articles
Response to call for grey
literature: 57 documents
Retrieved from specialist
databases: 13,290 articles –
All TITLES screened
Initial web screening:
214 documents
Relevant after title screening:
1,171 articles –
All ABSTRACTS screened
Targeted web screening:
79 documents
Relevant after abstract
screening: 382 articles –
All FULL TEXTS screened
Articles identified by
author group/experts:
56 documents
Final studies of relevance:
82 articles
Articles retrieved from
bibliography screening:
82 articles
6. Landscape approaches are the latest in an evolution of integrated
attempts to reconcile C&D.
1980s 1990s 2000s 2010 -
present
1980s: Integrated
Rural Development 1998: Integrated
Natural Resource
Management (INRM)
1985 onwards:
Integrated
Conservation &
Development projects
(ICDPs)
Contributing Sciences:
Ecosystem
Management
Landscape Ecology
Island biogeography
Conservation rooted
frameworks e.g.
“Ecosystem Approach”
1992: “Landscape Approach” first
documented (Barrett 1992)
(Integrated) Landscape
Approach frameworks
7. Key findings from the “theory”
literature
Optimizing adoption of landscape approaches:
• evaluating progress within a landscape is fundamental to
determining where gains or losses are being made
• hybrid, multi-level and cross-sectoral governance structures
that integrate internal traditional knowledge and external
institutional and financial support are increasingly preferable
• must acknowledge the need for contextualisation and not
subscribe to panaceas
• inclusive, participatory stakeholder negotiation can help
align local socio-cultural and global environmental concerns
• should recognise dynamic processes and perverse outcomes
See: Reed et al. 2016 - Integrated landscape approaches to managing social
and environmental issues in the tropics: learning from the past to guide the
future
8. Where and how are landscape
approaches being implemented?
Peer
reviewed
articles
Grey
literature
(web
screening)
Grey
literature
(document
screening)
Totals
Number of
case studies
24 97 52 173
Number of
countries
represented
16 52 42 61
Number
reported
success
13 46 20 79
Reliable
data
provided
6 8 1 15
14. Key findings from the literature
Current barriers to effective implementation:
• the ongoing development of theory and conceptualization
may be stimulating time lags
• the proliferation of terms associated with landscape
approaches may be impeding policy and practice progress
• operating silos persist at all levels and scales
• engaging multiple stakeholders is all too often seen as
a box-ticking exercise to satisfy project requirements
• monitoring remains the least well developed area of
landscape approach application
15. Conclusions and recommendations
Landscape approaches remain contentious and under-
theorized
There is good evidence of “landscape approaches” being
implemented within the tropics but weak evidence of
effectiveness
Multi-level engagement seems fundamental to success
Attempts to implement must be contextualized
Metrics need to continue to develop
16. Thanks for listening!
For further information:
James Reed: j.reed@cgiar.org
Terry Sunderland: t.sunderland@cgiar.org
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