Influencing policy

Mind the Gap: From Evidence to Policy Impact

The 3ie conference “Mind the Gap: From Evidence to Policy Impact” took place in June 2011, under the premise that impact evaluation is the best way to find out what works in the fight against poverty. Issues covered included how the field of impact evaluation is evolving, what the new trends are, and why it is it more important than ever to invest in evidence-based policies. The conference website includes session presentations, photographs, videos and recordings.

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“Minority Islam ” in Muslim Majority Bangladesh: The Violent Road to a New Brand of Secularism: 2011; More than 85% of Bangladesh ’ s 150 million people are Muslims. Bangladesh earns its title as “ the third largest Muslim country of the world ” following Indonesia and Pakistan because of its enormous...
The role of intermediaries in advancing public policy objectives: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2011; Internet intermediaries, here defined as, Internet service providers (ISPs), hosting providers, search engines, ecommerce intermediaries, Internet payment systems and participative Web platforms &ndas...
Linking research to policy: The African Development Bank as a knowledge broker: B. Jones / African Development Bank , 2011; Since 2006, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has been positioning itself as a regional Bank for knowledge and ideas on African development. For the Bank, this implies more creative use of knowledge...
Stakeholder participation in agricultural research projects: a conceptual framework for reflection and decision-making: A. Neef / Springerlink, 2010; Recent discourse in the field of participatory agricultural research has focused on how to blend various forms and intensities of stakeholder participation with quality science, moving beyond the simp...
Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?: K. Antelman / Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, USA, 2004; Although many authors believe that their work has a greater research impact if it is freely available, studies to demonstrate that impact are few. This study looks at articles in four disciplines at v...
Using web 2.0 tools to help policy making: 2011; Guide designed to help researchers identify the right Web 2.0 tools for establishing links with policy makers, for building their online presence and credibility and for effectively communicating thei...
Working paper identifying and promoting best practice in national low carbon growth plans: 2009; This working paper summarises output from Project Catalyst, an initiative of the ClimateWorks Foundation, aimed at providing analytical support for the UNFCCC negotiations on a post-Kyoto internationa...
Reading University's African engagement brochure: Reading University, 2012; As a global university, Reading wishes to educate the most talented and deserving students in the world, work with the most outstanding academics and help tackle the key challenges facing the well-bei...
Children and Disasters: Understanding Impact and Enabling Agency: 2011; From a child rights perspective, disaster impacts affect not only a child's basic right to survival and development, but cut across their right to participate and for decisions to be made in their bes...
Enhancing the climate risk and adaptation fact base for the Caribbean ... preliminary results of the ECA study: 2010; The impacts of climate change in the form of phenomena such as sea level rise and intensified natural disasters weigh heavily on the developing economies of the Caribbean. The key to reducing the scop...