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    United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

    United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU‐WIDER) was established in 1985. The institute undertakes:
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    Getting research into policy and practice

    Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009
    The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change.Development actors are paying increasing attention to the question of how research, despite barriers, can fulfil its potential to improve policy and practice.
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    Mind the gap: from evidence to policy impact

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2011
    The 3ie conference, Mind the Gap: From Evidence to Policy Impact, brought to centre stage the need to address this “tension between learning and doing” as Ruth Levine (Hewlett Foundation) called it in the conference opening.
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    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)

    3ie supports the production of new evidence by financing new policy relevant impact evaluations, and supporting the synthesis of existing evidence on particular topics.
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    Getting research into policy, or out of practice, in HIV?

    The Lancet, 2010
    Globally, health policy has been dominated by calls for getting research into practice. This notwithstanding, this paper argues that many health interventions are based on hypotheses that are best guesses or gut feelings.
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    National policy-makers speak out: are researchers giving them what they need?

    Health Policy and Planning, 2010
    This empirical study, published in the Health Policy and Planning journal, was undertaken to better understand the perspectives and attitudes of policy-makers towards the use and impact of research in the health sector in low- and middle-income countries.
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    Role of experts in policy advice: lessons of experience

    Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2010
    Influencing policy is the ultimate goal of conducting policy research for which an important prerequisite is the existence of strong research-policy links that could facilitate the use of research outcomes in policy formulation, directly or indirectly. Such links are governed by several underlying processes, such as:
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    Institutional mapping for climate change adaptation in Eastern Africa

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    Commissioned by IDRC and DFID in order to strengthen institutional engagement of the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) programme, this study maps out the various institutions working on climate change and environmental management in Eastern Africa.
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    Global Research Report: Africa

    Reuters, 2010
    This report provides an introduction to patterns of research activity in Africa. Its overall finding is that, whilst the volume of research activity on the continent as a whole remains small, individual countries are making notable and effective contributions of a high standard. 
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    How research brokers and intermediaries support evidence-based pro-poor policy and practice

    Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2010
    The 'Locating the Power of In-between conference' in Pretoria, South Africa in July 2008 shone a spotlight on the role research brokers and intermediaries play in evidence-based pro-poor policy and practice.

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