Policy briefs as communication tools for policy research.
Presentation by Arnaldo Pellini and Jeff Knezovich
OID RAPID
August 2008, Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
The following resource was developed by RESYST for a research uptake workshop held in Kilifi, Kenya.
In this resource:
- Learn how to develop key messages
- Introduce policy briefs: what, who and why?
- Explore what makes a good policy brief
- Plan a policy brief: audience, messages, problem, recommendations
- Write the outline of a policy brief
- Consider what format and design to use
Find more: http://resyst.lshtm.ac.uk/resources/resource-bank-research-uptake
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A short presentation on the basics of writing a policy brief for use in the health sector. This is meant to be accompanied by hands-on learning materials (pre-test, exercise, post-test).
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This product is the result of compilation from various sources. I acknowledge all direct and indirect sources although they have not been mentioned explicitly in the document.
The following resource was developed by RESYST for a research uptake workshop held in Kilifi, Kenya.
In this resource:
- Learn how to develop key messages
- Introduce policy briefs: what, who and why?
- Explore what makes a good policy brief
- Plan a policy brief: audience, messages, problem, recommendations
- Write the outline of a policy brief
- Consider what format and design to use
Find more: http://resyst.lshtm.ac.uk/resources/resource-bank-research-uptake
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A short presentation on the basics of writing a policy brief for use in the health sector. This is meant to be accompanied by hands-on learning materials (pre-test, exercise, post-test).
Recent Advances in Evidence Based Public Health PracticePrabesh Ghimire
This product is the result of compilation from various sources. I acknowledge all direct and indirect sources although they have not been mentioned explicitly in the document.
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Presentation from 2015 ePart conference. Applying framing analysis and agenda-setting theory to examine the most shared and most read opinion articles in online newspapers.
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Introduction to policy briefs for researchersMichelle Laurie
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ASSIGMENT 1 MGT 252Project Finance and BudgetingAssignment 2.docxfredharris32
ASSIGMENT 1 MGT 252
Project Finance and Budgeting
Assignment 2
1. What are the two budgets of major concern for a project? Describe the purpose of each.
2. What is the difference between a Static Budget and a Flexible Budget? What are the pros and cons of each?
3. What are the four constraints that must be considered when developing a project budget? Why?
4. In doing risk analysis for your project, you have identified the following risks items:
Risk
P (Risk Probability)
I (Cost Impact)
Risk Contingency
A
.7
$20,000
B
.25
$30,000
C
.5
$16,000
D
.10
$45,000
E
.3
$18,000
F
.30
$10,000
Total
$139,000
a) Calculate the expected value of each of these risks.
b) How much would you request for this project to be added to your budget as risk contingency?
c) Why wouldn’t you request the entire $139,000?
d) What would you do in the event Risk D occurs?
Advocacy Project
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· Due Sunday November 8, 5:59 PM
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Choose a diverse population to research as the focus of this project and develop a 30-minute Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation. Military Family
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Support your findings with peer-reviewed research. (We all gathered different things, I myself gathered flyers from the base with different services)
Include the following information from your anthropological study in the presentation:
· Preferred communication methods
· Common or shared habits
· Services used and needed
· Types of interactions between members of the population and with people who are not members of the population
Identify common mental health counseling needs.
Explain the counseling approach that best fits the needs of the population and make suggestions for implementation.
Allow 5 minutes for questions at the end of the presentation.
Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment
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Grading sheet
What he wants in the power point presentation
This assignment is due in Week Six.
Content
80 Percent
Points Earned
X/9.6
The presentation is about a diverse population.
The presentation shows the student conducted an anthropological study of the population.
The presentation includes peer-reviewed research to support findings.
The presentation includes the following information:
Preferred communicati ...
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Policy Briefs:a development research communication tool
1. Policy Briefs:
a development research
communication tool
Arnaldo Pellini, PhD
‘Micro-level Perspectives of Growth’ project
August 2008, Dar es Salaam
2.
3. Content
1) Why policy briefs?
2) Planning your policy brief
3) Designing your policy brief
4) Conclusion
4. Part 1: Why a policy brief?
The research/policy divide
• Divergent needs & pressures
regarding information usage Factors influencing policy making
• Specialised research expertise vs.
democratised knowledge Experience &
Expertise
• Policy engagement vs. objectivity of Pragmatics &
Judgement Contingencies
researchers
• Researchers’ hypothesis driven Evidence
Lobbyists &
Resources
processes vs. policy-makers time Pressure Groups
constraints
Habits, Policy
• Multiple and competing influences Context
Values &
Tradition Source: Phil Davies Impact to
upon policy decisions Insight Meeting, ODI, 2005
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
5. Part 1: Why a policy brief?
• A short document that presents the findings
and recommendations of a research project
to a non-specialist readership
• A medium for exploring an issue
and distilling lessons learned from research
• A vehicle for providing policy advice
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
6. Part 1: Why a policy brief?
• Recent ODI/ Sci-DevNet survey with developed and
developing country policy makers working in field of
Science, Technology and Innovation found:
– 50% of policy-makers and 65% of researchers thought
dissemination of research findings for policy uptake
insufficient
– 79% respondents ranked policy briefs as valuable
communications tool
– Confirmed by expert and stakeholder interviews as means
of informing decision-making processes
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
7. Part 2: Planning your policy brief
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
8. Part 2: Planning your policy brief
A policy brief should be:
• A stand alone document
• Focused on a single topic
• Approximately 1,500 words (2-4 pages)
• A mix of text and graphics/ illustrations
• Provides suggestions for follow up reading
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
9. Part 2: Planning your policy brief
• Evidence
Quality evidence
Credible messenger
• Context
Understanding of political context
• Engagement (links)
Fostering linkages between researchers & policy-
makers
Ongoing dialogue
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
10. Part 2: Planning your policy brief
Evidence
• “What value does this have for the reader?”
• Develop a persuasive argument line:
Clear purpose
Cohesive argument
Quality of evidence
Transparency of evidence underpinning policy
recommendations
• Describe the urgency of the situation
• Speak in terms of benefits, advantages
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
11. Part 2: Planning your policy brief
Ask yourself…
• Who are your readers?
• Who am I writing this brief for?
• How knowledgeable are they about the subject?
• How open are they to the message?
• What are their interests & concerns?
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
12. Part 2: Planning your policy brief
Context
• Policy makers are not a homogenous group
• Needs differ by sector (economic vs social)
• Level of position (national vs sub-national)
• Role in policy-making process (policymaker, researcher,
intermediary)
• Point in the policy/project cycle (agenda setting vs
implementation vs M&E)
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
13. Part 2: Planning your policy brief
Context
Policy-makers using
scientific information at
various stages of the policy
cycle
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
14. Part 2: Planning your policy brief
Engagement
“I often read policy briefs for
• Recommendations relevant & both my official and non
official needs. I cannot think
realistic in context
of going forward without
consulting policy briefs. It
• Results clear expands my knowledge as I
• Time pressures of policy- get an opportunity to
understand what is
makers to deliver policies happening around me.”
with rapid & visible impacts (Policy-maker, India)
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
15. Part 3: Designing your policy brief
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
16. Part 3: Designing your policy brief
Present evidence-
informed opinions
• Not shying away from opinion
and value judgements (vs.
objectivity)
• 80% policy-makers valued
researchers’ opinions about the
policy implications of research
• Demand for opinion highest in
South
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
17. Part 3: Designing your policy brief
Use clear language
• Define your purpose
• Identify salient supporting points
• Distill the points down to essential info
• Clear language & jargon free
64% respondents thought low levels of scientific
understanding by policy makers is a significant obstacle
to uptake
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
18. Part 3: Designing your policy brief
Structure:
• Executive statement
• Introduction
• Methodology
• Results: what did we learn?
• Conclusions: what does it mean?
• Implications and Recommendations
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
19. Part 3: Designing your policy brief
Executive statement: Many in Congress and the
administration have called for new
• Distill the essence of the brief investments in education in order
to make the United States more
• Provide an overview to busy competitive, with President Bush
readers stressing the importance of
education in preparing young
• Interest the reader to read further Americans to “fill the jobs of the
• Appear on the cover, or top of the 21st century.” Yet advocates of
early childhood education have
first page only recently stressed the
• Be written last so that author is economic benefits of preschool programs,
and it has been difficult to win support for
clear about the over-arching these short-term investments given the
message conveyed long-term nature of the benefits to the
Economy.
The Brookings Institution, Policy Brief N. 153:
http://www.brookings.edu/comm/policybriefs/pb153.pdf
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
20. Part 3: Designing your policy brief
Introduction: The increased fear of a pandemic at
• Answers the question why is the current time is due to the fact that the
H5N1 strain causing the outbreak is capable of
this important or urgent? mutating rapidly and acquiring genes from
• Describes the research viruses infecting other animal species, including
humans. If the new virus contained sufficient
objective human influenza virus genes, direct
transmission from one person to another
• Acts as an overview of the (human-to-human) could occur, heralding a
findings and conclusions possible influenza pandemic. The current H5N1
strain causes high mortality among humans,
• Creates curiosity about the with mortality rates exceeding 50 per cent in
most countries.
rest of the brief AN EFFECTIVE REGIONAL RESPONSE TO THE THREAT OF A PANDEMIC
UN ESCAP Issue N.1 2005
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
21. Part 3: Designing your policy brief
Methodology:
• Describes relevant background
• Describes issue and context of the investigation
• Describes research and analysis activities
o What methods were used to conduct the study?
o Who undertook the data collection and analysis?
o Important to provide transparency of research process
but should not be overly technical
• Opportunity to highlight strengths/ value-added of study
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
22. Part 3: Designing your policy brief
Do The Electric Fences Work?
Results: What did we learn?
• Provide a summary of the facts Overall, it was found that although
the electric fencing does help…it is
• Make content easy to follow, not capable of completely
understand eliminating conflict. In each
…area…technical as well as
• Start by painting a general socioeconomic factors
picture affect…success. Technical failures
• Move from general to specific mainly affected the early
fences…Other problems resulted
• Base conclusions on results from failure to take into account
• Express ideas using strong elephant behavior and distribution
patterns.
assertions
Elephants and Electric Fences: A Study From Sri
• Make sure ideas are balanced, Lanka. EEPSEA 2005-PB11
defensible
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
23. Part 3: Designing your policy brief
Implications and recommendations
• Implications - what • Recommendations –
policy changes or actions what does the researcher
do the results point to? think should happen?
• Supported by evidence • Supported by evidence
• Must be actionable
• Must be actionable
• Less direct than
• Describe clearly what
recommendations
should happen next
• Useful when advice not
• State as precise steps
requested or not
welcome
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
24. Part 3: Designing your policy brief
Engage with audiences visually
• Visually as well as conceptually
engaging
• Would you be interested by the
document?
• Often just 30-60 minutes spent by
policy makers reading information on
an issue
• Over 80% respondents found graphs &
explanatory diagrams helpful
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
25. Part 3: Designing your policy brief
• Sidebar or textbox – a short insert that
examines a specific aspect of the
research
• Additional to the main discussion
• Aim to ‘hook’ a reader’s attention,
often through additional qualitative
information or case studies
• Aim to make sidebars or textboxes:
– Short, Descriptive
– Stimulating (ask questions, provide
answers
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
26. Part 4: Conclusions
Key ingredients of effective policy briefs
Persuasive Argument Clear purpose; cohesive argument; quality of evidence;
Evidence
transparency of evidence underpinning policy
recommendations (e.g. a single study, a review of available
evidence, etc.)
Authority Messenger (individual or organisation) has credibility in eyes
of policy-maker
Audience context Written to address specific context and needs of target
Policy
specificity audience;
context
Actionable Information linked to specific policy processes, clear and
Recommendations feasible recommendations on policy steps to be taken
Presentation of author’s own views about policy implications
Presentation of
Engagement
evidence-informed of research findings; but clear identification of argument
opinions components that are opinion based
Understandable by educated, non-specialist
Clear Language/
Writing Style
Appearance/Design Visually engaging, presentation of information through
charts, graphs, photos
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
28. Group work: Session 1
Read the 2 pg policy brief entitled: “Challenges for
Sustainable Development in the Mekong Delta”
Use the checklist and score the brief out of 5 (0 is for
very poor, 5 for excellent) on each category. Be sure
to note your reasons for your scores
29. Group work: Session 2
Form 4 groups:
• i) Trade liberalisation and employment,
• 2) Private sector competitiveness,
• 3) Value chain analysis,
• 4) Migration and off-farm employment
Based on the presentations from the Sapa workshop identify:
– Your audience?
– Your value-added findings in 3 key points, 15 words each
– 4 key policy implications stemming from your findings
– 2 key policy recommendations to
• National government bureaucrats;
• Provincial government bureaucrats;
• Committee on Economic Affairs in the National Assembly;
• Donors;
• NGOs
– A topic and text for a textbox or sidebar
30. RAPID Framework
External Influences political context
Politics and
Campaigning, Policymaking
Policy analysis, &
Lobbying
research
Media,
Advocacy, Networking
Research,
Scientific
learning &
information
thinking
exchange &
validation
evidence
links
31. Part 3: Designing your policy brief
Results: What does it mean?
• Use this section to interpret your
data One problem is the destruction of
• Aim for concrete conclusions fences by illegal timber fellers and
• Express ideas using strong illicit liquor producers. Such
assertions activities can be policed by well-
• Make sure ideas are balanced, organized community-based
groups.
defensible
Elephants and Electric Fences: A Study From
Sri Lanka EEPSEA 2005-PB11
Why? Planning Design Conclusions
32. Group Planning
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7
25 Aug 1 Sept 8 Sept 15 Sept 22 Sept 29 Sept 6 Oct
Other
commit
ments
Research Research
paper papers
sent (26
Sept)
Policy
paper